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Nice memories to stumble in to unexpectedly ... I remember the Mill Stores very well. From the mid 50s to somewhere around mid '60s we lived in Middle Acre Road which is curvy- parallel to Stonehouse Lane and not far behind the Mill Stores, separated by a smallish run of open land back then...

SO sorry for missing this request until just today, mwarom ... the past 3-4 months have contained many personal distractions for me and the time has zoomed past to the exclusion of all-else but the fallout from all of this. My apologies. Yes of course, if you haven't made other arrangements by...

Roxalma: Hi, and yes you are quite correct Sid was a soft-spoken gentle and pleasant man with a naturally likeable manner, got on easily with others and they with him. 1966 would have been too late for it to have been my mother who would have served you with those fireworks, she left in...

My father worked there in the Toolroom until some time in the mid/late sixties I think, though I don't know from when because at first I was far too young for that to register ... I reckon he would have been there for at least 10-12 years or more however. I don't have any personal memories of...

Hi Lyn ... No, but with that surname he was never going to be called anything other than Ozzy anyway :) But I think that Lordswood can possibly lay claim to having the genuine original Ozzy Osborne anyway however, Sabbath-Ozzy would I think be a year or so younger so a mere whippersnapper from...

Yes I remember him well ... tall, well-spoken, rather angular facial features, always in a good suit :) ... a very decent bloke, approachable, would always stop for a chat or just to pass the time of day if he had nowhere to go. Can't recall for sure, but I think he might have joined the Staff...

Bluto: I was there '59-'64 so our paths didn't cross directly, however I can add some names to your Swimming Team photo as the bottom row appears to consist mostly of faces that are familiar from across my year. Some are now no more than faces with uncertain names from other classes, but here's...

I was there '59-'64 ... so that sounds like what 26 years earlier was the Lecture Theatre ... opposite side of the corridor to the Bio, Phys and Chem labs, same side as the central staircase and right by it ... sound about right?

Thank you Lyn. The date works and I guess most of the years in range had snow sometime, but yes it would be nice if there is any source info that might add something one way or the other ...

Well this forum is most certainly full of memories, but also now a rather special discovery! Since coming across BHF fairly recently I have at times dipped in to one part or another just to see what it might bring back to mind, and have often become rather absorbed for a while. But now ...

Hijacking, with apologies, an elderly post for no better reason than the fact that it brings back a number of special memories all at the same time ... As a young boy of 7/8/9 in the mid-50s, one of many highlights for a while was a regular Friday evening trip by bus with my Father to go to...

What a lovely and unexpected exercise these old photos have become, taken just on an early 1970s whim for a pleasure jaunt to see what shots I might grab ... with actually pretty disappointing results at the time that got them shoved away in a box for near-on 50 years unopened until brought back...

A brilliant catch, Les! And thanks old Mohawk for the further digging. Okay, here's the embarrassing part ... I would have been past there probably hundreds of times on my buzzy little pre-motorbike moped in my mid-teens when going from California (no, not THAT one) to visit a schoolfriend...

No, not mine: I flew out of Baginton by preference, and at that time had a one-third share in a PA28. Elmdon was the obvious preference given the "mission" :) and also was where my friend, who was only in S'hull, flew-from after originally getting his license there. I can't now recall the...

Would have been a 150 TQ

It has been a busy and taxing week, as everywhere of course, and I have checked back only now. Excellent work on this and the others now-added, wonderful for anyone coming along later or searching for connections - good of you to take the time. And the track seems now to be closely assumable...

guilbert53 that was, and remains, a mammoth undertaking .... and, poetically, one that records another one! The regeneration of the individual canalside areas and the emergence of the greater Brindley Place scheme as they all connected was I think never really appreciated because of the...

Good to hear it is a piece of green in the city again and not been built-upon for the past 20-30-40 years! I'll have to take a moment and stop for a look when around that way some time. Just looked on Google Maps and wow that entire area has changed so much! I would never have placed that...

Apologies as well as thanks for the link guilbert53 ... I seem to have missed you yesterday among my comings-and-goings. Keep taking your photos, 50 years from now future generations will be looking at them marvelling at how wonderful it is to see what things were like way back in the Olden...

.. Oh, and "aeroplane" please, "airplane" is so vulgarly American and not at all Bitish! :) ;)