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  1. Bob Davis

    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    Second and third equal grandsons all 21 within next ten days, but as they are all at Uni and romantically. attached, no newa on parties, thank goodess No 4 is not 18 until October Bob
  2. Bob Davis

    Snow Hill Station

    Unfortunately no longer apparently According to the news casts I get-First have now decided to truncate the route around Bromsgrove. I understand that someone else has decided to reinstate the route from Bromsgrove to Birmingham, but I have no detail. As a family we visited Worcester and...
  3. Bob Davis

    It’s G G Jean’s birthday

    Happy birthday, hope you have enjoyed the day bob
  4. Bob Davis

    In the garden 2022

    Got a problem with my clematis. All of a sudden I have lost two to clematis wilt and a third is beginning to suffer similarly. Anyone got any suggestions for cures? Thanks Bob
  5. Bob Davis

    Gone out of fashion

    My son a city gent who works for Apple, always uses either a Cross or Mont Blanc, subject to which one he picked up that AM. I use when I can a Parker Bob
  6. Bob Davis

    Gone out of fashion

    Prior to JCB, this looks like an American machine, but I the UK Ruysto Bucyruse were king, hard to beat an RB22 face shovel, I last used one, an old dog ,from the fifties in 1991. You knew at the end of the day, it was not operated by hydraulics. Bob
  7. Bob Davis

    Gone out of fashion

    Mainly because of white finger, but they are still required in streetworks training and assessment and in a lot of cases now they are petrol driven, so do not need the compressor. I remember when I ran a plant hire company, we had one and two toolers as standards, but also a bigger CP four...
  8. Bob Davis

    Great Western Railway

    Danke Bob
  9. Bob Davis

    See Birmingham by Post Card

    The date of 1946 has to br wrong as there is a Nechells trolley bus in the picture and they ceased running at the start of WWII. Bob
  10. Bob Davis

    In the garden 2022

    It is a heùchera, they have a colour range from ĺime green through green to dark green and ahades of red, which mine like that is called traffic light through a variety of bronzes and oranges tto dark purple, my favourite plant, lost four this year, but replaced with seven more. Names are...
  11. Bob Davis

    Canals of Birmingham

    Thanks Bob
  12. Bob Davis

    Canals of Birmingham

    Can you PM me title and ISBN No of your book please, seem to be three or four of a similar name, I may already have it. Had six happy holidays doing the four rings and the Stratford canal Bob
  13. Bob Davis

    It’s mikejees birthday

    Sorry that I am late as usual, but hope you had a great day. boby
  14. Bob Davis

    It’s Jayell’s ((Judy) birthday

    As usual late with my good wishes, hope you had a super day. Bob
  15. Bob Davis

    No 12 BUS ROUTE

    ) On the second page is a picture of a bus on route 12 and look at the destintion. I think the answer is as Lloyd says at #43 above. Time for a new mystery please and Birminghsa city councillors have just announced the new estate next to Baetley Green, will be called Oakworth, Bob
  16. Bob Davis

    Comptometer operator

    I left Cannings in August 1972, threw everýthing up and left to seek my fortune in Plymouth. My in laws lived in a single concrete block built holiday chalet and I have our modest collection of furniture in one bedroom and I occupied another bedroom, unfortunately the streets were not paved...
  17. Bob Davis

    Birmingham buses

    I have just acqùired thè late David Harvey's last booķ?,Birmingham s Crossley Buses, although a lot of the photos are dark,a lot are of interest, because of the background behind the buses, of Birmingham in the fifties and sixties. I questioned whether it is his last book, because in mid...
  18. Bob Davis

    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    What happened to Cannings? Are they still going in one form or another, if not what happened to them? I left in 1962 Bob
  19. Bob Davis

    Sutton Park History

    At one time you could drive from gate to gate across thr park, nowadays modern cars would be to destructive,but Ford'8s and the. Like were not in at Bold This was the forties and fifties , ca me back, in the sixties in my Vanguard in at Boldmere gate, out at Boldmere gat.e bob
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