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Thanks Jean, I'll have a rum, sorry, rummage and see what I can dig out.

I knew it wouldn't last long. It is indeed at Five Ways.

Nice place to sit and relax in days gone by. Where is this?

Cheers Mike, not much consolation there I'm afraid.

Does anybody know where Fry's Chocolate Cream bars are or are to be made? Being my all time favourite chocolate bar originally from Fry's Somerdale factory I would like to know where they are produced as to whetherI carry on eating them. For as long as chocolate comes out of Bournville, even...

Magic footage there Thylacine. Many thanks for link.

This view of Chetwyns corner at the lower end of Navigation Street shows well the slope up to the junction with Suffolk Street.

As far as I know ragga, 4671 was fitted with illuminated advert panels as an experiment that was not followed up on any other single deckers. (Lloyd may know more). Regarding the wreck above, without a fleetnumber and /or registration number visible it would be hard to say. Certainly S6, S8...

3225 is definitely seen at Moseley Road following complete refurbishment as an apprentice training exercise. Interesting is that although then owned by West Midlands PTE it was outshopped with Birmingham City Transport legal lettering which was later changed and now reads West Midlands Travel...

That's right Trevor, it could be a killer LOL. They used the 36 footers on there mostly to clear the crowds! The C5's were great for timekeeping but short on seats and hopeless for the conductor when we got a standing load.;)

You beat me to it Lloyd, I thought I would have a dabble and managed this (but couldn't get rid of the front entrance!)

Thanks for the memory ragga. Like john70 I drove 4671 many times, mostly on the 170/2 routes from Acocks Green to Wythall and the 173/174 routes Acocks Green to Yardley/Sheldon. As you say, the advert panels would light up from a seperate switch when the interior lights were switched on. Because...

Still with the 1930's and it's New Street again on a fine Summer day and around the corner in Corporation Street the Midland Red buses outnumber the Corporation for a change.

I was thinking more in terms of reliable bus, tram and train services. Efficient telephone, telegram and postal services. Good service and variety of goods in shops. Home produced food and manufactured goods. Great picture palace cinemas and ballrooms. A greater degree of neighbourlyness and...

Re: Ten Acres and Stirchley Co op Bernard, you might be interested to know that the original T.A.S.C.O.S shop in School Road, Yardley Wood still stands although now empty. Amazingly the original name etched in stone was uncovered when the last tennents moved out and is still on display. (I went...

Talking of D9's, you may like a a peek at my latest posting over on Midland Red at Digbeth thread.

What a good quality of life the 1930's offered for many until the dark days of World War II. Here is a busy scene in 1930's Brum . A piano front Corporation bus turns out of Victoria Square down New Street. Plenty of cars to look at as well. People everywhere, I'd love to have been there then.

Many will have seen the mock up London Routemaster replacement bus known better as the 'Borismaster' due to come into production soon (Pic 1) but better looking and aleady built for testing in Macedonia (formerly in Yugoslavia) is the Skopje Routemaster (Pic 2). 202 of these are to be built in...

Just had a nostalgic trawl through the whole of this thread and fair to say one or two recent postings have appeared before but many haven't so keep em coming everyone. We are well on our way to 100 pages! Sadly a few pics went missing around pages 70-80 during the format change but the majority...

Many thanks, folks. One of my New Years resolutions is to spend a bit more time enjoying BHF. Won't be hard to keep, I reckon.:thumbsup: