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When I was at George Dixon Grammar School in City Road, Edgbaston, it was before the days of catchment areas and I would say that a quarter of the boys came from the other side of the city having to change buses in the city centre. I, myself, did not even live in Birmingham at the time.

Cars parked both sides of the Bearwood Road. When I was a boy, I remember they had the Odds and Evens system. You parked on the odd numbered side of the road on odd dates and on the even numbered side of the road on even dates and the council employed a man to go round every night changing the...

Although the trams carried many advertisements, BCT had a policy of not advertising on the buses because they thought it lowered the image of the system. I think sometime around 1960 they started to carry adverts but it was a controversial decision.

After 60 years that is a difficult one but this is my best guess. I would leave home at 8.00am or perhaps up to 10 minutes earlier, walk 10 minutes to bus stop, wait for a specific bus letting several others go by, traffic not too big a problem as on the Hagley Road in those days was not so much...

So with the above information we can date the photo of car 342 on Bearwood Road to September 1939 or just before as that was the month that tram route 29 was converted to bus route B82 (now 82). Possibly even the last day of service on the route.

I used the 34 bus in the 1960s to get to college in Gosta Green. I used to catch it at the Warley Odean stop on Hagley Road West. The route, if I remember it correctly, was Hagley Road, Islington Row, Bath Row, Holloway Head, Suffolk Street, Swallow Street, Hill Street, New Street, Corporation...

I remember the was a branch off North Western Arcade leading to Bull Street and the entrance to the office block was in that part of the arcade.

I think so as the telegraph pole almost covers the second window.

I was thinking I was there but my dad had left Birmetals by that time. I remember being at an event when a helicopter landed on the sports field in Woodgate. I think it was bringing the Marquis of Exeter, the chairman of Birmid to the sports day. This helicopter is landing inside the works...

I liked the Charles the Fox cartoons. The Birmingham mail has had some good cartoons over the years

This photo (3rd August 1985) posted by Carl Buckley on the Railways of the Black Country and Birmingham FaceBook page was taken from Bordesley Station and shows the Camp Hill Line crossing over the Moor Street line.

A vault is a storage area. I have always assumed in the name of a pub, it just referred to the cellars.

Back when I used to go to London regularly on the London Liner, I used to park my car for the day in Miller Street bus garage. If I was going to London for a longer period, I was more likely to get a bus into the city centre and catch the London liner in Colmore Row. Of course when National...

A Bond Mini Car Convertible.

Actually I have not heard about what is happening with the new construction at Moor Street. I know that the effect in practice will be to make Moor Street and the new HS2 station into one large station. To bring additional trains into Moor Street from the Camp Hill Line will require bringing...

That is what I understand has always been the case. At one stage I was told that the Hereford/Worcester to Birmingham trains would be used on this route. I misunderstood that these trains would take this route into Birmingham so I queried what would happen to people from beyond Bromsgrove who...

I don't know what a semi-automatic gearbox is. The preselector gearbox, the driver selects the next gear and then to change gear presses the leftmost of the three pedals (I can't call it a clutch but I have forgotten what it is called). I have driven a modern bus with a fully automatic gearbox.

Midland Red was part of BET British Electrical Traction not British Automobile Traction. HA2500 was a one off prototype . It was rebuilt from an SOS Standard at Midland Red's Carlyle Works in Edgbaston with a forward half-cab.

St Andrews Junction is the point at which the Camp Hill Line leaves the line from Birmingham to Tyseley and on to Solihull and beyond. So the smoke could be from trains on either of these lines.

Back in the late 1960s was the first time I had a telephone on my desk as previously at other companies where I had worked there was just one internal phone and one GPO phone in each department. To me this was luxury especially as I could dial out without going through our internal switchboard...