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Many Happy Returns!

Always a pleasure to play at "the dunlop" such a quality sports ground. Mind M&B always provided a crate of ale at the end of a game which perhaps made them the top choice venue.

Interesting read, maybe especially as I did apprenticeship in electroplating '58-'61. Do remember having to endlessly polish 6''x 4'' brass plates to a mirror finish to act as test pieces, as mentioned.

Had similar event with my laptop. But our local shop, TechOut "fixed it" absolutely for free. OK he was honest enough to admit that all he had done was switch it on and it had worked and even more important it has kept working, but he could have given me any tale when I went back to collect it.

Sad to learn that this popular singer of the 1970's recently passed away RIP>

Used to cycle to school regularly so was reasonably fit but didn't do hostelling trips, then one year a friend who was usually to be found doing fifty mile bike races had been injured and invited me along as part of his recovery programme. It was this time of the year, last week in September and...

Or in other words, the other end of the beach from Woolacombe.

I guess this is Church Rd just north, towards the Yew Tree, from the Swan.

I'm another that remembers DI.Thomas with affection, he was my first year form master in 1951. Didn't go on to take "O" Level history but I do remember him along with Tony Appleby taking us to buy a pint in the Red Lion, King's Heath after a School v Staff tennis match.

You are right, trolley bus and no pub!

Surely didn't the trolley buses terminate at the Arden Oak?

Dennis Williams KEGS Camp Hill 1953-1960

An alumnus of KEGS Camp Hill. RIP Dennis.

Happy Birthday!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cotton Quite a lot about Jack Cotton on this wikipedia site.

Geoff, "my" Scribbans J series had an upturned box for the passenger, don't think it would have met the requirements of a driving examiner!

This is untrue, I've been messing about for about three hours, I posted the above AND thought I'll have one more try and spotted a "setting" that was so obviously wrong and lo and behold pictures transferred!

For years if I've been out taking pictures on i-phone I connect to lap top, Windows10, select "Photos" and a few minutes later my latest efforts were transferred to the laptop to be edited etc. BUT today all has changed I have been infected with "Photos Legacy". I've managed to download and...

In my early working life 1950's I was attached to a works laboratory and be charged with collecting samples of cyanide from hardening pots for analysis, operatives if it were break time would be frying bacon on a shovel above the cyanide pots. In later years I remember brass being annealed and...

Not sure which "Turner's" the calendar would have been for. Anyone know?