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I worked on some of the former Tangye ground...... https://www.flickr.com/photos/48235702@N06/4960987428/in/photostream https://www.flickr.com/photos/48235702@N06/4960391801/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/48235702@N06/5038198533/in/photostream/ The last image was taken in the...

Im sure his death would have been recorded in a local paper. The local paper during this time would have been the "Smethwick Telephone" but as this is ,as far as I know, defunct thats noy going to be of much help. I wonder if the Smethwick Heritage Centre might be able to help...

Hello Johanna, I to was sorry to hear about your grandfathers death at Dartmouth Auto Castings. particularly as it was me who started this thread and also the fact that I worked for the same company. I joined in 1967 just prior to Birmid Industries merging with Qualcast and thus becoming the...

I certainly remember them selling seafoods from a basket, from memory in the Bear Hotel, Bearwood. This would be in the early 70s.

Lets not forget that the Birmingham Co-oP had a fleet of electric bread vans as well, there is one at the Wythall Bus Museum. Up until its closure Wordsley hospital (Dudley health Trust) had a number of moden electric atriculated "Tugs" that were coupled to various types of trailer for servicing...

Hello Sistersue, if your car has a relativley new registration something like.....BG 55 XXX then using the last two letters no longer apply. This is because the DVLC were running out of numbers as they can only use derivatives of 1-10 as the "random element" New type issues use 25 letters of...

I dont care where it was taken, its just a cracking image!!

Yes Sosprini your probably right but As I said, maybe its about time they did investigate, arson is after all a criminal offence its to easy for the police to not get involved, this is why we pay taxes and it NOT up to the police to say what they do and what they dont do...........I would...

I wonder if the police ever do any serious investigations when these fires break out? Maybe its high time they did!!

I dont think you are beeing cynical, I to have voiced the same opinion when other "problem" buildings have suddenly caught fire!!

Interesting that this very rural part of Staffordshire had at least two early films made in the area considering that this new technology was expensive to say the least. Benjamin Priest a local cinema owner and businessman made a film called "Bladys Of The Stewpony" based on a novel by the...

Hobbler, do you happen to know when this film was last viewed? Lets hope copies have been made and lets hope they have been made on the more stable "acetate" stock as opposed to the unstable" nitrate" There is another film archive that the BBC have contact with, I donated them some 16mm film...

Imteresting topic, any updates?

Great photos ragga.

Thanks for that Lloyd, the only time I noted these buses, both types, was either on the B82 at bearwood or on visits to the city. I always rather liked them and did not realise, or had fogotten, that they gained the lower stripe later and in fact it was painted on to presumably a previously...

I have recently been looking at a few photos of the Titans delivered in 1949/50. They either had Park Royal bodywork with a small rear side window by the stairs or Leylands own body without the small window and other small detail differences such as front number plate placement. From the book,s...

This is very sad but not totally unexpected news.

Thanks Phil

I have made notes of all these various emporiums:) what is pleasing is the fact that many seem to be surviving maybe even thriving. There was until a few wekks ago a "Focus" at Kingwinford, near were we live and was quite handy of course it isnt a real hardware shop but was close but it closed...

I dont know if its just me or there may be others but I do love browsing in proper hardware shops. There are so few around now mainly thanks to the likes of B&Q, Focus et all, who then subsequently close down leaving the local hardware browser with nothing at all :( Real hardware shops have...