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  1. devonjim

    Then & Now

    There's quite a few pictures in this sequence, I've roughly worked out where No302 would have been and I think this is the nearest I can get, mind you many others are better at manipulating these things!
  2. devonjim

    Church Road, Yardley.

    The garage in this web is on Stoney Lane just beyond "The Yew Tree!
  3. devonjim

    John & Fanny Williams

    I like that precise sort of proof! Very often on "Ancestry" and the like you finish up with what seems a best guess. Thanks both!
  4. devonjim

    John & Fanny Williams

    I would have been just four! I have never doubted that I had personal memories of him! Alfred Williams was a Birmingham bus driver at Highgate garage.
  5. devonjim

    John & Fanny Williams

    And the 1944 death at 80 fits his dob!
  6. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    A short while ago badgers were being shot as a contributor to bovine TB
  7. devonjim

    John & Fanny Williams

    Just came across this quote from some twelve months ago. I have since "convinced" myself that this probably not my ggfather. There is another death of a John Williams in Birmingham in 1950 age 88 which almost fits his dob of 1864. (Married 1886 age 22). Is this reasonable slippage? By this time...
  8. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    Kicked down the road by the latest delays to the station reconstruction?
  9. devonjim

    Zero Emission Buses

    Trolley Buses? Perhaps the metro will come into it's own when "driverless " tech arrives.
  10. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    There is some chat on social media that trains on this Moseley/Kings Heath line will only "shuttle" between New St and Kings Norton ie no direct links towards onward stations towards Redditch/Bromsgrove etc.
  11. devonjim

    Zero Emission Buses

    I know I've said it before but this really does make the metro tram obsolete. Imagine not having those seemingly endless roadworks.
  12. devonjim

    Philip Harris

    Likewise at Wilmot Breeden. A couple of other mentions of Phillip Harris
  13. devonjim

    Commercial vans.

    Wasn't there a Gittins's garage on Warwick Rd. at Tyseley opposite the Britannia ? Later became Collier's.
  14. devonjim

    Commercial vans.

    Initial driving lessons were in a "J" Type. A Scribban's Bread van around Tile Cross in around 1958.
  15. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    Interesting to see where the Camp Hill line, or is it South Birmingham line interfaces with the non-train world, a couple of points in Stirchley are the bridges over "The Worthings" and the bridge formed by the top of the hill in Fordhouse Lane. Is it also the line at the back of the railway...
  16. devonjim

    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    That's who I remembered
  17. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    There was the occasional single deck tram along here until mid 50's. The tracks were removed around 1956. All viewed from the classroom window.
  18. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    Scene of some of Brum's last trams as many were diverted here to the depot just to the right.
  19. devonjim

    IN OUR GARDEN 2023

    Hydrangea! Can't claim much credit, was here when we came 20 years ago, apart from cutting lumps off I never do anything, I have never fed it or anything at all, just keeps growing!
  20. devonjim

    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    And taking a long time to do it!
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