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As a lad I was in Sea Cadets (TS Sutton Coldfield), our winter uniform included a "Gansey" which was worn next to the skin, under our uniform, and it itched like you would never believe but alright after about half an hour, In my photo you can clearly se the "gansey" below my neck Goffy

Michael, You are spot on. I'm glad someone remembers me. when we first moved to the floor above "G" dep't I had a bench at the far end close to the stairs up to the pattern shop. Behind me was Paul Shuttleworth, remember him ? but I think we all had to move around when an office for planning...

Hello Michael, I thought it might be you. You also fitted an air horn to that car was it a wolf whistle I can't remember now. I had a blue A35 van with with side windows at that time and my bench backed onto Geoff Whale. You may...

Hi Graham, Your picture of the football team is a little before my time at Turners, but I see Bert Bentley in the line up, He went on to be manager/sales director at Timings Tools in Brownhills, thats were I went when I left Turners, and he was my boss there till he retired. sadley he passed...

Re: Turners Hi Michael, You were working at Turners at the the same time as me. did you ever work in "D" department after it had moved down the road over "G" department, we had an Humphreys working there but I can't remember his first name. he...

Graham, Glad you liked the pic, yes you may download it. They were very happy memories for me, my time at the farm in Herefordshire. Goffy (another Graham)

Hi Mossy, I forgot that bit of information, I had put it in an earlier post. yes it was a BSA Bantam 125cc, a great little bike. Only thing was, every so often the damn thing cut out and left me cleaning the spark plug at the side of the road. That bike was an early model with a seperate small...

No joking, this is me on my first motorbike, I was about 11 or 12 at the time this picture was taken but that old bike was still around when I was old enough for my first license after I recovered it from the shed and rebuilt it. the young lady on the pillion was a chum on a visit from...

Graham, I enjoyed your tale, and I know there must be many more from those Hop Picking days. I used spend my holidays, as a child, on a farm in Herefordshire, not to far from Bromyard. Every year Hop Picking came along. for me it was only a walk to the Hop yards with...

I had my tonsils out at the ENT, not long after I started work. While I was waiting for admittance I had to "paint" my tonsils with some iodine like liquid with a long bent brush, it was virtually impossible ! I remember that ward as if it was yesterday and some of the other patients with...

Yes those are the funny ones, I remember back in the sixties it was popular to buy a window sticker from every place you visited, car rear windows and side windows were covered in them, and also the rows of pennants flying off the wing mounted radio aerials, It was upmarket to have a few...

Hi Diamond, I remember the "Bumps" had them, myself but I can't remember any help from below. As far as I can remember it was still practised when I left in '58. So thats where my bad back came from ? Goffy

We had a "Pig Bin" on the other side of the road in Kingstanding, usally my job to take the bucket of waste veggies across the road to the bin, learnt the highway code pretty quickly then. Many years later when we moved into our house in Doe Bank Lane, (not there now) we found a bucket with a...

Dad used to take me to the "dirt track" to watch the speedway, catch the 29 to Perry Barr, always wore goggles to watch the races and always went home filthy. Did anyone go there to watch the Stock car racing, that was exciting too. Goffy

I do remember the teapot stand, and I think I still have my Tap Wrench, Forgotten all about those how did we have time to make them all ? Goffy

Yes Mike, I remember that tin funnel, goodness knows what happened to mine. I'm glad I hung onto the Anvil, both wood and aluminium parts, did you see those on an earlier post? We must have made more items than that over two years, I remember a single bookend in woodwork and in metalwork I've...

Another piece of information on Rem Fowler, He was working at Turner Brothers in Birmingham in 1958 when I started there, He was making nameplates (all hand made and stamped) for attachment to tooling produced by the company. He had his own little workshop within "G" shop and was adorned with...

Bren, That description takes me back, it is exactly how I remember our house in Kingstanding. you probably also had a built in cupboard in the recess to the side of the fireplace with a glass cabinet at the top a large draw and a cupboard underneath. My wifes house was also in Kingstanding but...

Myself and my wife were both blessed with the Aldridge road clinic when we were at school (both at Kingsland road but didnt know each other then) Along with the gas mask I remember the most frightening part was the metal clamp they opened up between your teeth to keep your mouth open. there was...

Hi again Jimster, We too took french in our 1st year at Boulton Road, can,t remember the teachers name but I seem to recall us calling him "Sam" ? and "squarebottom" certainly rings a bell. I am meeting one of my classmates this week I will see what he can remember. We were in Form 4A1 in 1958...