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Not sure how we came to go with XENFORO in the first place - perhaps we inherited it. But don't we have to assume we are stuck with it? Presumably transferring everything to a new platform would be a horrendous job. Chris.

I really think that we as members should always concentrate on the "proper" site, rather than on Warren's test site. The latter is obviously useful to Warren and it can be used for him to try out ideas there and possibly ask for our views on them. I can see confusion in the future otherwise...

Jaffa, thanks for your kind words. One or two points arising from your various comments. Unless he entered Home Guard service directly into anti-aircraft duties, your father would very probably have served initially in 23rd Warwickshire (Birmingham) Battalion Home Guard whose territory was...

Very interesting information, thanks, Jaffa. The November 1944 Orders of Battle for the Home Guard show that the 105 Warwickshire Home Guard battery was one of six in the Warwickshire area excluding Birmingham, all making up 26 Anti-Aircraft Regiment Home Guard. There were a further six within...

This discussion about Home Guard weaponry reminds me that I was surrounded by objects of death and destruction such as these for about five years of my childhood, growing up in a Home Guard family - revolvers, rifles, grenades and other ammunition. I wrote a memoir about it many years ago...

I've moved the more recent posts on this thread (on HG weaponry) to the main Home Guard thread: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/home-guard.23811/. I think that is the more appropriate thread for them - more likely to be picked up there in future and also it keeps this...

I imagine that the answer to Pedrocut's question about protocols at the time is that it was simple in the extreme. It certainly was for me. As has already been stated, a straightforward rule: "Never EVER point a firearm in the direction of someone, however absolutely certain you are that it is...

All the best, Mike! Chris

When you finally get around to tidying up your garage because you've lost something, it's quite surprising what you find. The blighter on the top shelf of the cupboard who pinched some of the peanuts intended for the blue tits was at least tidy. Unlike his mates on the bottom shelf who...

It's very sad to lose John. The Forum owes him much. Chris

A male maker is someone who makes travelling bags. Intensive research tells me that the term comes from Royal Mail and their post bags. So presumably “Weaver’s ……..” (A valuable bit of information we should all tuck away for future use.) Chris

It would be good news indeed if we knew for certain that the problem was with "them" rather than with "us". We still don't really know why the majority of members using Chrome (including me) never had the slightest difficulty and why, therefore, it should have affected only those members who...

That was a happier outcome than the one later in the month when the City of Benares was sunk with the loss of many lives including those of children. At around that time, an American friend of my father offered my sister and me a safe haven in the USA for the duration. I wasn't aware at the...

Still use it myself....must have come from my parents or my time working for a Wolverhampton company. Chris

Dave, It looks like no mention of "Lote" anywhere, as Astoness says. However you did make a brief mention of "Lotes" as follows: Kingstanding My brother would remember all of them - I'll get him to respond - mind you - you do say late 50's - we moved from 123 Hurlingham (next to the Lotes) in...

Thanks for unearthing that, Lyn. How do such wonderful things come to be buried and forgotten about, even with our well-structured site? We almost need a determined effort to comb through some of the older threads and "bump" them up, Facebook style. Great credit to the gentleman concerned: he...

Perishing things are now bringing their mates. "Hey, try over here - not everything's squirrel-proof. Especially fatballs. You can do the silly gymnastics if you're really that mad on peanuts. Too much like hard work for me. I'll just sit in comfort on the top of the trellis. And munch".

I suspect that whatever aircraft type they were working on, it would be one which was fairly quickly superseded by more modern types. We are talking here mainly about WW1 technology - obviously still around and probably used for quite a long period in some aircraft designs, for example for tail...

Disappointing! It's worth noting that, as the war progressed, suitable O/Rs and NCOs WERE commissioned. Suspect G C Coughlin was one of these - he doesn't appear in the first Officers List of February 1941. Whereas A.J. Walker, M.M. does. But not in the 46th Warwickshire. He was, in 1941...

Very sorry not to have remembered, Biscayne, and haven't had the opportunity of checking emails from that time. So, it looks as though all this might be new to Eric. What you have provided looks as though it will be very useful. I'll have a good look into it just as soon as I can. Chris