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Hi Anyone remember 'Pool Petrol' which sold for about 4/3 per gallon in the early 60s. I believe it was a very low grade fuel which dated from WW11. I seem to remember that Esso Golden was a favourite 'de luxe' fuel at the time which sold for 4/11 Kind regards Dave

Hi, One of the strangest outwork jobs I ever came across was one provided by Southalls at Alum Rock. When their production line had problems which resulted in the 'products' being distorted or damaged, the spoilt goods were collected and distributed in black bin bags to outworkers whose job was...

Hi, Only just noticed this post, and I remember the shop very well, as it was a second hand goods shop in the 70s/80s run by an Irish guy called Mick. I visited it daily whilst I was working at the Met, as I was a keen record collector at the time, and Mick always seemed to have plenty of...

Hi Many thanks for all the responses . As they say, you learn something new every day, and I had never heard of these before. Kind regards Dave

Hi Lloyd, Never having heard of autocoaches, what was the point of them., ie why would you need one when the locomotive would still need to be fired? Kind regards Dave

Hi, I remember we used to say ' a six of chips' Kind regards Dave

Hi Bob, And yet we never expressed the engine capacities of cars and motorbikes in cubic inches before decimalisation - always in cubic centimetres. And now we are decimalised we still use miles per hour and miles per gallon (British gallon of course - I believe yours are a bit different)...

Hi, a) 7/6 b) £7/2/6 Happy days Kind regards Dave

Hi Pete In 1939 Beer was around 5d for a pint of mild although there was a weaker beer known as fourpenny ale at guess what! - 4d. By the end of the war it was around a shilling (5p) due mainly to large duty increases. It just crept up bit by bit until when I started at the Toby Jug in...

Hi, As in Old Mohawk's post 5, we still saw many dearer items shown in Guineas rather than Pounds, although I believe the last Guinea coin was minted in 1814. The value was £1/1/0 or one pound one shilling, and an item at 99 Gns 'looked' a lot cheaper than one priced at £103/19/0, hence the...

Hi, Dr Rangwani at Arran Way Medical Centre Smiths Wood in the 70s/80s My favourite doctor. Kind regards Dave

Hi I've never forgotten a train journey from Euston to Birmingham about 60years ago and standing all the way!. On the other hand it was usual to be standing on a daily commute between Stechford and New Street, but that was less than 10 minutes rather than 2 1/2 hours! Kind regards Dave

Hi Waswigg, I wonder if it was 'your' Cosgroves who had the shop in Station Road Stechford in the 1950s/60s. Memory isn't what it was but I seem to remember they were a general store, and sold newspapers. Kind regards Dave

Hi, If I remember correctly there was a railway bridge over Clifton Road, and when approaching it from Moseley Road there was a public toilet by the bridge. After going swimming with the school at Moseley Road baths we all used to decamp to these toilets for a crafty fag to avoid the...

Hi Would the office block have been Kennedy Tower, also known as Snow Hill Plaza, in St Chad's Circus? Kind regards Dave

Hi Annie Metropolitan Cammell Sports and Social Club did have a shooting section (Air Rifles) back in the 1970's/early 80s but I have no idea when this was started. To the best of my knowledge the company did not use the abbreviation 'Metro' back in the 1910s , - in 1912 the Company was...

Hi William, I'm not sure about Ansells, but M & B certainly did, - in fact their telegraphic address was 'Artesian'. R. White's in Western Road also had one when I started there in 1966, but I think around 1970 they stopped using it as the water quality had deteriorated. I guess that's...

Hi Oldbrit, Still got mine, although a bit tatty now! Coincidentally, I did a lot of my trainspotting at Stechford too, but from the comfort of my bedroom, as we lived in Frederick Road, and my room overlooked the track near the signal box, and the split between the New Street and Aston...

Hi Pete, Many thanks for the references, - I took the opportunity to save Graeme Wormald's QRG from the link given. I met Graeme many times at Centre Electronics in Stockfield Road, and he was a real gentleman. I also owned many different Eddystone sets over the years, and had the opportunity...

Hi Mike As far as I can remember he was doing woodwork in 1954, and was also known as Hovis. The 'religious' one was from memory called Holy Hovis to distinguish them. The Saunders at the right of the pic is definitely Geoff Saunders. Kind regards Dave