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Have just been watching an old film about the history of Davenports Brewery It covers the story of the time in WWII showing the practice evacuations to the air raid shelter. It said that 4-500 people sheltered there at night and that there was a first aid post open day and night staffed by...

Many thanks Viv, I am passing that information on to my friend.

Viv Do you have any information about the location of Lloyds Bank at that time. A friend of mine has an old cheque drawn on Lloyds Bank Ann Street Birmingham and we were wondering if it was at the location next to Eden Place which became Lloyds Bank Colmore Row. David

I flew from the old terminal a few times in the 1970s and early 1980s but most of my international flights in those days I made by driving to Heathrow. The new terminal openned in 1984 and since then all my flights have been from Birmingham except for a couple from Gatwick.

I think the aircraft would have been owned by Railway Air Services, a joint operation by the big four railway companies and Imperial Airways. You were actually advised to send your luggage by the railways Lugage in Advance service.

I have checked the Birmingham Library Catalogue and there are 2 copies in the Reference Library. A history of the Birmingham telephone area Tupling, R. E.1978

Fox furs lasted until the 1950s and when I was clearing the house of a great aunt, I found one. To me as a child I thought they were horible as some had the legs dangling down.

I knew of the old connection between Rackhams and Wilkinson & Riddell but I did not know that they were on adjacent sites. I knew Wilkinson & Riddell in Cornwall Street as my mother had an account there. It would be only a few years later that they moved again to Priory Queensway where their...

One of the Poirot TV programmes featured Poirot being mistaken for Lobby Lud, although they may have used a different name.

Following on from the posts about what happend to MEB. This is the latest in the saga. Copied from The Business Desk, a news website. (I did a copy and paste so the spelling is not my responsibility.) Warwick-based National Grid is set to buy Western Power, the UK’s largest electricity...

I have known two men called Peter yet neither of them had Peter among their names.

Dead Eye Dick was a character in the poem Eskimo Nell which A P Herbert, the writer and MP, always denied that he wrote.

Did you know that Mary Jane in Spanish is Maria Juana which became a slang term for canabis.

Thanks. Yes it was Red Star I was dealing with. I used them when I had to send parcels between our London and Birmingham 0ffices back in the 1970s

Truck is a word I have heard many times. I think, but I cannot say authroitively, that it has the same meaning as is used in the laws know as the Truck Acts. These laws forbid the payment of wages to workers other than in cash. This was because many employers were paying in goods such as food or...

I don't remember that block of offices in the centre of the Midland Station and it was only in seeing photos of the demolition work that I know about them. I remember driving into a parcels bay off Station Street to collect and send parcels which wasnext to platform 12 in the 1960s station.

Could be that Sue learned to drive and objected to being called Ken.

Suff is a word perculiar to the West Midlands meaning the drain. Shakespeare used it in Troilius and Cressida Act 5 Scene 1 when one servant insults the master of another servant. Except that in most copies of the play it now says south instead of suff because some printer made a typo which...

Molly Coddled appears to be universal. These are the lyrics to an American song called Molly Coddled Not exactly in the lap of luxury You were not quite of blue blood But you know you went to bed With a belly full of supper You were safe as a bug in a rug You were swaddled and jolly molly...

I had what showed up as an international call this morning from Birmingham Woodgate exchange. Did not answer it.