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Hi 1960s to 1970s address 390 Green Lane Small Heath, so very local to his shop, - by 1985 at the Scribers Lane Hall Green address. Kind regards Dave G0ELJ

Hi, When I worked in Newhall St in the early 60s it was still referred to as 'Eli Fletcher's'. Kind regards Dave

Hi, I had 2 Viva HCs, and the first one FNP56J was a great car, although it did get through 3 gearboxes, and it suffered body rot at the end of its life. But it cost very little and I did my own repairs, so as I did over 100,000 miles in it I was not complaining. The second was a 1256cc...

Hi, I have not noticed the artist Robin Hazlewood RI mentioned on this thread. I have a picture of Yardley Church and the old School House by him which was of particular interest to me as I was married there (the Church, that is!) Quite a bargain really, at £2 from the Acorns shop in the...

Hi, I know nothing about the VOR Railway, but I have a Preservation Datafile book from 1993 which states that VOR have 3 locos - nos 7, 8 and 9 (1213), and that whilst 7 and 8 were built in 1923 at Swindon, 9 was built 1902 by Davies and Metcalfe at Romiley. This is the same info given in the...

Hi Pete, Am I remembering correctly that she lived in the block on the corner of Yardley Fields Road by Doctor Masters? Kind regards Dave

Hi Pete, That Wessie brings back some memories, although I never had one. But I did have a load of AM10 Cambridges, one I converted to 2 metres FM, and another to a receiver for VHF airband - I think the rest were broken up for spares or sold. Incidentally, for anyone who likes Sailing By...

Hi, I remember that a good few years ago, you were responsible for clearing snow and ice away from the pavement outside your home. Kind regards Dave.

Hi King Edgar on the pub sign. Kind regards Dave

Hi Bob I remember Turnbull's well, -there appeared to be a big sandy bank behind it, almost as if had been built into the side of a quarry. Kind regards Dave

Hi Bob, The only Candlestick telephone I ever saw in use was in the 1950s at Aston's the butchers in Station Road Stechford. I imagine that as you rented and could not buy your telephone it was only the ones which you had installed a long time before which would have been in regular use at...

Hi, We used Telex at Metro-Cammell, and I remember arranging for the old Creed 7ERP to be replaced with a Creed 444 teleprinter with a 4 bank keyboard. Telex ran at 50 Baud - I believe about 66 words a minute, and this was not really fast enough for a lot of our operators to prepare tapes on...

Hi, In both pictures the building appears to have the same Crittall? windows upstairs. I reckon they have had their moneysworth out of them. I had them in my old house in Smith's Wood too, and they lasted well, - the only problem was that the wood around them rotted away! Kind regards Dave.

Hi, Picture no 1 includes 2 poles which have multiple crossbars,. and are linked by what would appear to be a heavy cable. Would this have been telephone/telegraph use, or perhaps early electricity distribution (or both, as over here where I live!) ? Kind regards Dave

Hi, Our old number in Stechford was 783 7697, and the number for R White's in Western Road Brookfields was 554 3378. Kind regards Dave

Hi, Back in the early 60s I rented a garage in Albert Road from a guy who used to own a Levis motorbike during WW1. He showed me a groove in the side of the steps down to the garage where he used to run a gas pipe during the war to start and warm up his Levis on gas then switch over to paraffin...

Hi, It would be interesting to see any photos/pictures of Station road before the embankment/bridge were built. Although it might appear that Station Road hill was all banked up to allow the bridge to be put in, with the Parkinson works being at a lower level one side, and Northcote Road on...

Hi Ray, I checked through a 1961 combined ref, and a 1955 LMS ref, and there were 2 less Jubilees in 1961, - Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and Malta GC, so if it was wrecked or lost, it would have to be before 1955. The only other Jubilee missing from the complete sequence was 45637 Windward...

Hi I remember seeing Clan Buchanan pulling the 5 o'clock Glasgow into New Street. The only Clan I ever saw!. Kind regards Dave

Hi Ray, I can't track down an LMS loco called Kampala. Nearest matches 45662 Kempenfelt, 45588 Kashmir, and 45593 Kolhapur, all Jubilees so you were probably right about it being a Jubilee. Kind regards Dave