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Fascinating, absolutely fascinating! I first noticed this difference from photographs over sixty years ago ... but had never come across an explanation. (Up to the mid-'60s L.M.S 4-6-2 (not 4-6-0; Coronation class engines were Pacific-type locos) CORONATION class locomotives were never seen at...

Re: Does anyone know which street this aircraft fuselage is being transported in? Dave is right. The company H. H. Bushell & Co. Ltd. - which was classified as "general merchants" - had premises at 46/52 Brearley Street and a warehouse at 31/45 Brearley Street, Birmingham 19 certainly up to 1966.

There is also a Facebook page for former pupils of Bordesley Green Boys' Technical School. Be very careful to insert the "Boys' Technical School" part of the name into the FB search facility as there are seven FB pages dedicated to The Tech, all of which are empty except the Bordesley Green...

Hello again, Chris, I'd like to take you up on your second challenge. Is the captain Geoffrey Paddison? Geoffrey was probably better known to most people as the opera singer David Hughes (born 11 October 1929 – 19 October 1972), the Birmingham-born (Bournbrook) tenor with Welsh forefathers. Am I...

Hello there, Old Boy, I went to Bordesley Green Tech and I think I recognise the officer in the photo you posted. Is it Mr E.C.E. "Eric" Lunn? I have done a fair amount of research into my former school and have come across Mr Lunn in the official school photographs of 1949, 1961 and 1964. Here...

And a third academic point: there's another mistake in the opening sentence of the link in Post #32 which seems to have been overlooked. It says: "Ex-LMS 7P 4-6-0 Princess Coronation class No 46257 'City of Salford' is seen standing ...... ". Harbornite76 refers to the "City of Birmingham" as "a...

In post #15, Wendy has posted two magnificent photographs by Ian Pitcher. The second is of a bottle-making machine which failed to find itself space at Thinktank. These notes are from the minutes of a meeting of the City Council on 1st April 2003. Councillor John Hood to the Cabinet Member for...

Although it didn't roll up and down a short length of track like the “City of Birmingham”, in the late 'fifties there was another steam locomotive at Newhall Street. It was called "Leonard". It had spent its working life at the Minworth sewage treatment works near Birmingham. After its having...

...... and they definitely played at the Ritz until at least 1958, possibly 1960.

Re: A question He was a member of the York and Lancaster Regiment.

Yes, I've received and read st.evenlucy's message. Thank you for your thanks. I'm very pleased the instructions were sufficiently well written to follow. The difference between giving a small bunch of flowers and giving your life is beyond any form of comparison ...... They will never be...

Good morning, st.evenlucy, I send off four photographs to you last Saturday. Unfortunately I was unable to use this site: here you can only attach photos to personal messages via an URL address. As you let me know your name through your message to me, I sent the photographs to you via Facebook...

Hello there, st.evenlucy, I already have the position of Mr Changretta's grave. He died on 30th September, 1943, aged 25. He was the son of Thomas Martin Changretta and Ann Changretta; and the husband of Florence Nellie Changretta of Ashted, Warwickshire. If you send me a private message with...

Tomorrow morning - or possibly Friday - I'll be driving 9 miles (15 km) to Salerno War Cemetery. If any member of the Forum would like me to place a flower on the grave of a relative, friend or simply an acquaintance lying there, would he or she please let me know the full name of the war hero...

Hello there, PB7229, Thank you for your highly informative contribution. Very interesting to be told that there was no Bundy clock just before the Yew Tree roundabout. When I first saw this photo several months ago now, my eye fell immediately on the bus. The only route which follows that...

Brilliant, Brian !!!! Never thought of that! :friendly_wink: D.

A Sparks and sheldontony : Thank you very much for your contributions. All the routes you’ve mentioned on their outward journey follow Hob Moor Road, go around the Yew Tree roundabout and then turn into Church Road before going into Yew Tree Lane and then Moat Lane. When coming out of town, they...

It’s an original photograph taken by Mr Robert Scott from the Swan Centre multi-storey car park in 1985. In his caption he makes no mention of the bus. Most of the people that made comments hadn’t even noticed the “strange manoeuvre”. Thanks again, David

Robert and Brian could well be right when they suggest that it “could have been a School service pulling away from Yardley J&I School”. But which garage would it have come from/ was it heading for? Robert is right when he tells us that Harvey Road can be seen just to the right of the bus...

Hello there, tali, Have you seen Post No. 130, which I sent in on 12th November, 2009? It's towards the end of Page 9. The next best thing eh? The post which follows by Lloyd is interesting too; pity my Dad swopped the Riley for an Austin Maxi 1800 in 1971. What a comedown! He wasn't a...