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  1. devonjim

    Arden Oak Pub

    You are right, trolley bus and no pub!
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    Arden Oak Pub

    Surely didn't the trolley buses terminate at the Arden Oak?
  3. devonjim

    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Dennis Williams KEGS Camp Hill 1953-1960
  4. devonjim

    RIP DENNIS WILLIAMS

    An alumnus of KEGS Camp Hill. RIP Dennis.
  5. devonjim

    ITS PJMBURNS (janice) BIRTHDAY

    Happy Birthday!
  6. devonjim

    Waterloo Street Birmingham

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cotton Quite a lot about Jack Cotton on this wikipedia site.
  7. devonjim

    Scribbans Bakery

    Geoff, "my" Scribbans J series had an upturned box for the passenger, don't think it would have met the requirements of a driving examiner!
  8. devonjim

    Windows 10

    This is untrue, I've been messing about for about three hours, I posted the above AND thought I'll have one more try and spotted a "setting" that was so obviously wrong and lo and behold pictures transferred!
  9. devonjim

    Windows 10

    For years if I've been out taking pictures on i-phone I connect to lap top, Windows10, select "Photos" and a few minutes later my latest efforts were transferred to the laptop to be edited etc. BUT today all has changed I have been infected with "Photos Legacy". I've managed to download and...
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    Fire, Forges, Foundries and Furnaces

    In my early working life 1950's I was attached to a works laboratory and be charged with collecting samples of cyanide from hardening pots for analysis, operatives if it were break time would be frying bacon on a shovel above the cyanide pots. In later years I remember brass being annealed and...
  11. devonjim

    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    Not sure which "Turner's" the calendar would have been for. Anyone know?
  12. devonjim

    Turner Brothers Toolmakers

    Only a memory, no pictures etc. available but in 1960's my wife worked in a team that produced "The Turner Calendar" quite a glossy production. Anyone have any recollection? Sort of like the famous Michelin Calendar but made in Brum.
  13. devonjim

    Hardy Spicers Ltd

    Browsing this very old comment, Fred was my boss at HSP in 1970's.
  14. devonjim

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Plead guilty to that one, along with navy blue blazer! ps with a big badge!
  15. devonjim

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    C&A closed in UK in 2000.
  16. devonjim

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Not adverse to a troll around the local charity shops and spotted this label. How old must that shirt be?
  17. devonjim

    Sheldon

    Hi, Peter, Never knew Rover had a sports field there, when I played against Rover for WB I'm fairly sure the sports field was quite near the Solihull factory, would have been early 60's.
  18. devonjim

    British house styles across the ages

    Worked out where they are ie. the Austin Bungalows, and they are still looking very smart.
  19. devonjim

    British house styles across the ages

    Seems not. Found this picture on wikipedia they are quite different!
  20. devonjim

    British house styles across the ages

    Are they the bungalows built for "Austin" workers in Hawkesley, Northfield. Visited there only once and that was some sixty years ago!
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