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Hello, an interesting find, I have no idea with regards to this area but I did come across reference to the Rea and Iron making but not at Northfield. I have posted the link below. I wonder if this slag was jumped for other reasons ie Hardcore for Roadmaking ect...

That Austin might not be as bad as it looks. The body is fabric covered and it has ripped over time.

I seriously believe that modern cars are far better than cars of the past, thankfully they "dont make em like thay used to" Not only rusty sub frames,( A BMC trait) do you remember when quite young Fords failed because the front McPherson struts ( suspension legs, not a Scottish dance) were...

This was a 1963 built, 1964 registred connaught green Austin 1100 I seem to remember it was suppied to its first owner( I was the second) by Stocks Garage, Broad St

Im sure there must be some record of this unfortunate incident somewhere but it may not be considered as a Railway accident in the normal sence. It more an incident that happened on a train than an accident involving a train. As has already been stated deaths and injuries on trains are probably...

Ta Mike looks interesting.

Hi Michael, ermmm what book? BTW I like the loco piccies, very very nice.

I managed to get the Eddystone up and running, I will post a pic of it at some point, and I picked up quite a lot of radio stations mainly what sounded like english speaking commercial stuff but I did get a French station at about 11,598 M/Hz or M/Cs, the Eddystone does not deal with new fangled...

When I have a few moments I will get this "Eddystone" up and working, it really is quiet a piece of kit and it weights a ton! I will scan the ether later in the week and report back if I pick anything up with my high tec 20ft bit of copper wire...

I have just thought of a few more Radio bits. Childrens Favourites on Saturday Morning, Housewives Choice Mon to Fri, On occasions this was introduced by amonst others, Godfrey Wynn. There was another thing I remember and I cant really decide if it was part of the news or what but it invilved...

Dav, we did the bradford museum some years ago and i wish it was a bit nearer, I did not realise Todd-AO became Panavision. It can get confusing as I believe Panavision Like Cinemascope is normally a "stretching" of the image via anamorphic lenses . One the other hand there was and Pavavision...

Just read your post Mow, Hurst St was a super place for browsing and admiring radio and Hi-Fi equipment that i could not afford! Eventually I has sufficient cash to go to ermmmm was it RSC ? and were they in the great WQestern Arcade? This was in the late 1960s and my first stereo...

hi Dav, I know of Cinerama but never actually seen any films presented in this format. Todd Ao was somehting else I missed and was a collaberation between Film star Richard todd and the American optical Company. Another format was VistaVision. Cheers Bill

I wonder if anyone here remembers the experimental Stereophonic broadcasts the BBC did back in the Late 50s/early60s ? My dad was very keen on opera and classical music along with musical reproduction in general and I suspect we were the first family in the road to have a Stereo Radiogramme...

You make sure you do Don, Im sure you will love it.

One of the things that suprised me was how small the Spitfire was and how massive the vulcan bomber was!! Way back in the mid 60s a friends dad took us both to a show at RAF Gaydon and I seem to remember aVulcan getting its front undercarriage bogged down in the grass as it tried to turn on...

Yesterday I spent aroung four very pleasant hours looking around the excellent Cosford RAF museum. The huge site is still partly an active RAF base and I am sure many of you have already visited it at some time or other. I cant say Im a big aviation enthusiast and even less a military one but...

Bonnaria!! Looks like we have a shared gene with this comedy Mowhawk, I have a CD with many of these programmes on and somewhere about he house another CD with quite a few of Rambling Sid Rumpoe,s ditties on it. My favourite being one that is sung to the tune of "Widicombe Fair" an absolute...

Im glad to see there are quite a few" Round the Horne " enthusiasts! I seem to remember it was a spin of from the earlier" Beyond Our ken" Kenneth Horne, the dapper link between the variuos sketches was the Managing Director of, what I have been told , several Midland based Companies. One of...

On the "DD" theme, there is a REDD albeit in a terrible state at the Black Country Museum. Still fited with a petrol engine. It is in a terrible state and the Museum , as far as I know, has no plans to restore it. In fact I would not be at all suprised to see it eventually end up at Wythall. It...