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Or do as my daughter, work in an office on Broad St

I recall that my Mom was a member of Civil Defence, she was a school meal cook and somehow I think the two were connected. She would go off on exercises "cooking in dustbins". I know I use to think they'll need a big dustbin to get mom in, but it was the cooking that was done in the dustbin. Was...

Did GEC apprentices have a link to Castle Bromwich hall, maybe a training centre. Memory of going there to discuss a concert in Town Hall to be arranged jointly by the apprentices of a number of companies, never came to anything. Must have been in early 1960's.

52 Gas St use to be a restaurant called "52 Gas St" now the black painted building, it was white, canal side down towards Holliday St.

Chemistry was all very well, but I did work for a firm that was strong on engineering, so much so that I enrolled on a City and Guilds at Hall Green so I could learn some fundamentals, this was 1965ish

I did two years at Aston Tech 1958-60 doing S2 & S3 ONC in Chemistry, certificate is signed by D. Dudgeon Stockley. I was an apprentice at Wilmot Breeden at that time.

Looks to me as if the wall could do with an urgent dose of TLC. Back in late 70's had a load of rubble from the old station in the foundations of a bungalow we were building, had many relatives who had worked for GWR and it seemed a lasting memorial.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/J._A._Reynolds_and_Co I think the date was much earlier! Maybe 1889? https://www.hemswell-antiques.com/antiques/clocks-and-scientific-instruments/other-scientific-items/a-fine-magazine-case-of-drawing-instruments-by-j-a-reynolds-and-co-birmingham-1907-113252.html

Having a "potter" in antique shop this morning and I noticed a telescope with this label in the lid of the box, I read the date to be 1989. Two addresses Colmore Row and Church Lane Aston.

Harry McGuire queuing at our local chippy, Phillip Serrell eating in a local cafe.

After the above I saw a small blue butterfly so looked it up, what a bag of worms so to speak, I hadn't realised that nearly half of the "blues" that you see are in fact Brown as most female blues are brown.

Celebrity while passing! Kenny Ball in a gents loo in a pub on Hagley road. Never seen Roy Wood even though I learn we both lived near Pool Way shopping centre.

I had an uncle George Shrapnel Leek. Doesn't seem to be a family name.

With the warm, no hot weather there has been a marked increase of butterflies, some I recognise, these include comma, red admiral, cabbage white, peacock, tortoiseshell, humming bird moth, and some brown ones.

It's almost 65 years to the day since I passed my driving test, for some forty years I worked in motor industry and I have never bought a new car. Trying to remember some landmarks, a week after the test we hired an A40 took it across Exmoor to Woolacombe. On our return bought a Wolseley NF...

Went past here to and from work in 1970's never occurred to me that it hadn't always been a garage.

Not on theme but just wanted to ask a "car" question. What is an SUV? I know it's a sports utility vehicle but every other car is marketed as an SUV so what features does it have to have? Thanks in advance for your pearls of wisdom!

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In the commentary there was a claim that the mini was the World's first front-wheel drive car, there were Citroens quite a few years previous. I think it was true that the mini was the first CV front-wheel drive.

The garage in Tyseley was Gethin's not Gittin's. Well I was only 7 or 8 when I lived there!