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Hello GEC Scot/ Welcome to the G.E.C. Thread, lots of great people on here with loads of facts about G.E.C.Witton. Don't worry if the thread goes quiet from time to time, it only takes someone to produce a photograph or a personal storey for the thread to come alive once more...

Hi Eddie,Welcome to the G.E.C. thread. I served my time in the 60's and worked with all the chaps that you mentioned, in the big shop my favorite was Ronnie Mason but I ended up in the New Turbo which I enjoyed very much. Have just found an old photo taken in the Apprentice Training School, will...

Hi tommy0121, I lived in Hawthorne Rd until I was about 7 or 8 years of age and then the family moved to Sutton Coldfield. I well remember the walks to Witton Lakes through the allotments and the wonderful smells as you past each plot. The aircraft you mentioned was behind the Crossways Pub...

Hello to the Baron, The same applies to your good self Baron, thanks to you this thread was created in the first place and with it all the memories for so many people. A huge "WELL DONE" TO YOU.

Hello Ray, In reply to thread 250, I think you have the wrong chap. I was about 6'2" tall, about 14 stones with glasses who used to play rugby for G.E.C. and then Sutton Coldfield. Thanks again for all the memories and photo's, you have certainly helped to fill a large void in my memory bank

Hi again Ray, THREAD 224. How could I get Wal Colley's name wrong after he kicked my backside so many times. I spent a lot of time working with Eric Golder and his workmate who was about 6'4" tall and broad but his face is another name I cannot put a name to.Ray , if you look at THREAD 200 and...

Hello to Ray Griffiths, Can I offer you a sincere apology for not replying to some of your threads, I managed to get Christmas/Newyear at home this year and I'm afraid that I have made the most of it- hence I haven't checked the forum for some time.

Great photo's Dave, the Grandchildren have only visited Sutton once but they still chatter on about the park.Will look forward to showing them your pic's when I get home. Merry Christmas-Mike.

Thanks Jennyann, still Ofshore at the moment but when I get home I will make contact with Geoff--what a Christmas present.Merry Christmas, Mike

Hi Jennyann, Thanks very much, that would shock the boots off him.Best Wishes-Mike.

Hello Jennyann, What an amazing Forum this is ! Yes I do have a Cousin called Geoffrey Bond and the dates you gave would I think fit in with Geoffs age. He has now retired but is still fairly high up in the Local Government Labour Party. He started work as a Draughtsman at G.E.C., I hadn't...

As Byrl Reid would say ""Good evening each ". From all my family i.e. Wife, Children and Grandchildren (11) may we wish you all a very happy Christmas and wealth and good health for 2010. I had to work away last year but I will be home this time for a proper traditional Christmas. Many...

Hi everyone, Before you all get totally stuck into Christmas, from my Wife Marjorie, the Children and all the Grandchildren (11) may we wish you a very merry Christmas and peace, happyness and good fortune for 2010. I had to work away last year but this year it is my turn to be at home...

Hi again G.G., Have taken your advice and looked again at some of the threads on this site including Dave Weavers, the photograph's of the rail line had changed very little-apart from the sounds and smell of a hard working steam train. On my last visit to the Park with the family around...

Hello again Wendy, Being a Sutton bread gengtleman, I will not ask your age. I am 63 so I must have been mid teens when I went to Streetly Youth Club. Couldyou have been one of the birds I unsucessfully tried to chat up he he ( and failed ). I believe Roger Moore lived in Rosemary Hill Rd...

Hi G.G.Jean, Dosn't the Internet make it a small world, never in a million years would I have thought that anyone would remember Colonel Leach and his Wife, they were deffinately two left overs from the old Raj. Your absolutelt right when you mentioned how lucky I was to live opposite...

Hello Wendy, Very nice to be able to revive what was for me an extremely happy part of my life. Happy memories around the area Thornhill Rd, Streetly Village, Streetly Lane, I even went to the Streetly Youth Club which was at the junction of Streetly Lane and Walall Rd/ Four Oakes Rd but...

I always used to call my Dad by the nick name of Pop and the only time I seem to hear this word now is when my children refere to me by the same name. I now live in Goerdie land and all the children in this part of the world refere to pop as juice.

Have just spent an enjoyable few days reading through all the " Sutton Park " stories, all these memories tie in very closely with my own. I lived at No 10, Chester Road North, Streetly near what used to be the Parson & Clerk pub and in between the Royal Oak Gate and Thornhill Road, I think...

Hi Richard X, You were absolutely right in describing Bob Walker as one of lifes gentlemen. After I left G.E.C. at the end of my Apprenticeship I work in various parts of the world and Bob and I lost touch. My lasting memory of him is that you could completely relax in his company because you...