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Was it the "Girling" works?

Has anyone suggested when/how Alum Rock got it's name. Can't find any mention of Alum being processed there.

We can get "orange" chips down here in Barnstaple. At Scoff's, 1, The Square.

When I go shopping at that shop whose name makes us think of Indian Food, if I am not sure exactly what I want I seem to finish up with things I don't really need.

Connection with Yardley? Johnny was an apprentice at Wilmot Breeden in late 1950's which was in Yardley.

I've just read, vide supra/see book mentioned above, of a railway man who won a GC for jumping into a rail wagon and freeing a burning German incendiary bomb that had landed among a load of our own high explosive 250lb bombs and tossing it from the wagon.

I worked for a Jim Gough who was part of the apprentice training team, so probably not the same person, this was around 1960. I was a member of the door lock assembly supervision staff in the late 1960's while there I knew a couple of the polishers who played in WB cricket team and my brother...

It is some fifty five years since I was at WB and that was after a period of eleven years working there. Rockwell took over not long after. Perhaps you can tell us a little about WBH, who was Peter Weston, I remember they were in Redditch but some years ago I noticed a factory adjacent to M5 in...

Yes, this is an Ian Allen book acquired as you suggest.

Among my presents at Christmas was a copy of the 1971 book Britain's Railways at War 1939-1945 by O.S. Nock. Lots and lots of facts and figures.

But then there was a Birmingham industrialist Sir Harry Jephcott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Jephcott Very famous old boy of KEGS Camp Hill

There is an old thread that mentions this.

It is said that the road was named after a city councillor. https://www.bing.com/search?q=Councillor+Jephcott+Birmingham+&form=ANNTH1&refig=DA44E35C2DCB424CA696F203A753A055&pc=HCTS

Found this picture that confirms my memory of the Paynes. , Getting to grips with new laptop managed to scan, now need to display here!

Have a great day, appreciate all your posts!

In 1940's I assumed the old site of the cinema was a result of bomb damage, if I remember correctly there was a Payne's shoe repair shop on the site which was of a timber construction

In around 1956 I had a "Saturday job" working with a Scribbans bread delivery man. One of our calls was to deliver bread to the maternity hospital in Marston Green. The bread was specially labelled as being Low Salt.

This forge was on Warwick Rd opposite Stockfield Rd. I would stop on my way home from primary school to watch the action in 1940's

I now have a "Tree Rating" 8.6 What's that about?