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Only a memory, no pictures etc. available but in 1960's my wife worked in a team that produced "The Turner Calendar" quite a glossy production. Anyone have any recollection? Sort of like the famous Michelin Calendar but made in Brum.

Browsing this very old comment, Fred was my boss at HSP in 1970's.

Plead guilty to that one, along with navy blue blazer! ps with a big badge!

C&A closed in UK in 2000.

Not adverse to a troll around the local charity shops and spotted this label. How old must that shirt be?

Hi, Peter, Never knew Rover had a sports field there, when I played against Rover for WB I'm fairly sure the sports field was quite near the Solihull factory, would have been early 60's.

Worked out where they are ie. the Austin Bungalows, and they are still looking very smart.

Seems not. Found this picture on wikipedia they are quite different!

Are they the bungalows built for "Austin" workers in Hawkesley, Northfield. Visited there only once and that was some sixty years ago!

Phil was chief engineer and technical designer at Birfield Extrusions, part of the GKN group, he virtually designed the bells and tulips, part of automotive transmissions, he was the GKN leading expert in these matters. He knew most of technical needs for the extrusion presses used in the UK...

I enjoyed help from Phil many times on BH Forum. We realised that we had both worked for GKN Birfield Companies for many years. RIP.

You MAY be able to find an answer to your query from Weston Body Hardware in Redditch, they held records of WB parts when they closed down, but that was nigh on fifty years ago.

And the "New's Theatre" in High St. and wasn't Jacey in Station St.?

Sometimes the old view is more familiar than the modern one.

Cinephone had the reputation for porn/blue films, only went there the once and I'm sure it was to see West Side Story, honest! Would have been 1965 or thereabouts. Cinema was on corner of Wrentham St/Bristol Rd.

Does anyone else remember getting a passport from the offices, with the arches, just beyond KEVII Could have been in 1950's.

Hi John Trow, remember you being at WB. Can it really be 50+ years since I worked there!

Was this the style of bus that was used in 1960's as mainly "standing only" for transport of workers. I was thinking of the 36 route between Stechford and Tyseley.

I, too played for WB in 1960's, and I do remember Frank Tye. Another two names that I recall were Eme and Cleo McCollin. Some members of the team went on a trip to West Indies, I think to St Kitts, but that may not be right. Strangely my two grand sons and their mom have just had a week's...