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All being well I will certainly attend. Eric

Here in Chelmsley Wood E scooters are a menace, the are mostly youngsters on both pavement and road. You can be on the pavement and they come from behind you being electric you cannot hear them. Eric

Thank you all for your kind 'get well' messages, Doctor is convinced I will fully recover in about a week if I keep taking the anti biotics and taking it easy. I am fully looked after by my family particularly my daughter Jayne . Eric

S0 sad to hear of Maurice's passing such a nice person. Eric

Christmas Greetings to all members - and a Happy New Year. Eric

A painting of the pub based on the black and white pic in post #35 therefore a bit of guess work in the colours. I have done numerous paintings of this hostelry as I have visited it numerous times when I lived in Erdington (1961 to 1987). Eric

Another painting , one of many I have done of Hall of Memory, a lovely subject. Eric

This a bridge I walk my dog Elsa under every day in Chelmsley Wood looking towards Coleshill painted one Winter. Eric

Covroad, My Father worked for Bryants and on completion of Airport all employers and their families where invited to opening early 1939 which my Father took us to, I was nearly 9 at the time and cannot remember much about it expect it was the first time I had seen an aeroplane. I'm now 92. Eric

I left school at 14 in 1944, it was at the GEC Witton, Electric Avenue in the drawing office, 10 months before the war in Europe ended. I was only there 11 months and got a job at Hercules cycles in Despatch department. Happy days. Eric

I always thought the studio was Aston Cross (the old Astoria cinema), I must be thinking of something else ! Eric

Where I live in Chelmsley Wood there are numerous public fruit trees and during my dog walks around this time of year and earlier I see apples, pears, plums and even cherries lying on the ground rotting away, it's such a shame, this would not have happened years ago. I have my share, the pears...

mayepolebaz, my sister had the same problem with a similar solution, cost her £1,300 ! a year ago. Eric

Many years ago trams where a favourite painting subject of mine. Eric

I live in Chelmsley Wood by Meriden Park. I have a small tree in my Garden full off sparrows (counted 19 yesterday) which I feed with bread and seed every day, this attracts magpies, pigeons and crows. Occasionally see the odd blue tit and robin. Also loads of Sea Gulls

I learnt to drive when I started work for PO Telephones (now BT) in 1956 after leaving the RAF, they had their own driving instructor and test examiner, I learnt in a Morris Z type van (later replaced by the Morris Minor van) the vehicle I would later be using as a telephone engineer. Eric

Personally I never liked it but I'm sure I'm in the minority. Eric

Happy Birthday Jim. Eric

2 more pics out my album, our Lanc being serviced and 2 members of our crew Wipani, (flight engineer) a French Canadian who flew during the war and decided to stay in the RAF and Bob our Navigator this was 1950 in Kano Nigeria

Spargone, no rear turret either, that's where we kept our toilet (flights were 10 to 12 hours at survey height 22000 ft) I had the additional job of replacing film cartridges in the 2 cameras (one photographing the terrain the other the instruments) about every hour, also passing food and drinks...