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My teacher at Cranbourne Road was a Mrs Olwyn Griffiths and the Headmistress was a Miss Mole.

From 1958 until 1963 the Coventry Road resident snowplough was always parked at the Arthur Street end of the open yard with the platform facing the wire mesh fence. The bus was 1133, (CVP 233) which was one of the Daimler COG4s fitted with an English Electric body intended for Manchester. The...

Archbishop Masterson School was in Turves Green. My wife taught Modern Languages there in the 1970s and 1980s

Car 563 is in Sutton New Road on the 2 route on 9 May 1953. The photo is by H.B. Priestley.

Does anyone remeber the accident which caused the death of Joe Tayman, (spelling might be wrong). He was a long service driver at Perry Barr garage and was killed when changing drivers at Tysoe Road, Kingstanding Road when he was run down by a milk lorry. This was about 1952 and his family...

Haha! My bus. 2489 JOJ 489 Crossley DD42/6 Ch no 95177. Crossley H30/24 body entered service 1 July 1950 withdrawn 31 March 1969. Purchased 4 September 1969 for prteservation. Full PSV licence. Won Best bus at 2009 Showbus Rally. Never been off the road from 1969! :)

No, it was the other way about, they were Leyland trolleybuses but had dummy radiators. OV 1175, the demonstrator and BCT 1-11. Other operators ran AEC trolleys with dummy radiators eg Southend.

It is 679 in Kyotts Lake Road going to the works for scrapping on the evening of 4/7/1953. 679 had been the penultimate car on the 78 route to Short Heath

12 went to Bartley Green and originally terminated at the top of Adams Hill at the Jiggins Lane terminus.

21 Suffolk Street, Selly Oak, Weoley Park Road, Castle Square, Barnes Hill, Woodcock Lane, Bangham Pit. 22 via Holloway Head, Five Ways, Harborne, Stonehouse, Weoley Castle, Gibbins Toad, Selly Oak and reverse.

Sory I was looking at 368. The view with the Daimler "Fleetline" on it is in Lichfield Road at Aston Station.

The two trams are in Aston Street beyond Gosta Green with Corporation Street in the background

Last month former Birmingham Crossley 2489, which is preserved and has been since 1969, won the Shillibeer Award for the best Preserved bus at the Showbus 2009 rally at Duxford.

Steam tram is at Kings Heath Station.

Archie's book was very informative but some of the information wasn't quite accurate especially about the trams at Hockley after the abandonment.

Most of the last two years correspondence and queries can be answered in "Outer Circle" by David Harvey, Peter Drake and Margaret Hanson, published by Tempus Publishing, (now The History Press) in 2003. :)

The night service in Birmingham was begun on 15 April 1946. The routes were; NS 2 Erdington * NS 5 Perry Common NS14 Lea Village NS29 Kingstanding NS79 Pype Hayes * NS16A Hamstead NS72 Handsworth NS9 Quinton NS20A Weoley Castle NS35 Maypole NS36 Cotteridge * NS37 Hall Green NS44...

The Inner Circle bus route was always operated by doubledeckers, but initially the were the open-top AEC 503s with Brush bodies of 1923. The main problem with the new 8 route was Icknield Street bridge and Highgate Road bridge. In the former case, a memory of a late friend of mine, Norman...

All the batch were withdrawn in 1934 with one exception which went the previous year.

AEC 507 with a Short Bros L20/26RO body built in 1928 nicknamed pickpocket specials because of the herring-bone seats in the dentre of the upper saloon. From the 286-295 batch.