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Hi All, I continue to enjoy this thread. Thankyou Eddie for starting it. I am no musician although I did play a bugle in an ATC band. However it strikes me that there must be enough musicians on the Forum to form an orchestra to rival all others. What should we call them? Old Boy

Hi Simon Welcome aboard. I wish thaty all newcomers would give as much information about themselves as you have done. Old Boy (Chris Beresford)

Hi All, Mike - A complete shot in the dark but the factory could be Butlers in Grange Road, Small Heath. If I am right, and I doubt it, the houses would be in one of the roads off Grange Road. Old Boy

Hi Lyn I think it is Edgbaston Street and I am fairly sure that it is the Rag Market. Is the large pub on the corner The Birmingham Arms? Sadly, like a good few of us on the forum, I am getting old and having difficulty remembering things. However your idea of giving us a challenge is an...

Hi All. For anyone interested I have changed my avotar. It is now my wife in her wheelchair and myself in a scooter I had hired for the day on our visit a fortnight ago. The Arboretum is a large place and if anyone is getting on in years or unable to get around very well it is well worth...

Hello Janet, I know nothing of this club but judging by the last date the cup was awarded (1938) the war intervened and The Davison Cup competition stopped and was never reinstated. Old Boy

Welcome Townsend. I wish you luck in your search. Have you tried a similar forum to this in Exeter? Old Boy

Hi All, I fuly sympathise with Morturn and understand his abhorence of violence. However what are the facts? 50 years ago there was discipline in schools and by and large children got on with their learning and the British education system was one of the best in the world. Today...

Hi All, I am a life long supporter of Birmingham City F.C. (The Blues). However I am pleased that Villa have reached the Cup Final and I sincerely hope that they win it. This area (The West Midlands) badly needs a successful team who can compete regularly with those from London and the...

Hi All, I could not agree more with you that school discipline needs a complete review. I started school in 1932 and the cane was an ever present threat. I had it about twice on the hand. It stung but did not really hurt. The worst thing about it was loss of face with my fellow pupils...

Hi Foxy1, Thank you Chris Beresford.(Old Boy)

Hi Foxy, Did you know my cousin Ernie Boswell.? Ernie worked for Faulkes Furriers before the war. He joined the army and was captured at Singapore. He was then a Japanese POW working on the Burma Railway until his release at the end of the war. Ernie returned to Faulkes but sadly his...

Devonjim, I tend to agree with you. After WW11 most of the young men were away on National Service, Hopefully someone will come up with an answer. Old Boy

Hi John, Weston Super Mare is still popular but probably as not so popular. The other place your nephew mentions is possibly Burnham. However WSM is suffering, as are most of our resorts because of the large numbers of people who go abroad for their holidays. This is becuase of package...

Hi All, I find this photo very interesting. At first I thought perhaps a Masonic 'Do' but now I do not hink so. Far more younger people than older. I would date it as just after WW11. All the men in evening dress but none of the ladies. Perhaps it is a Rotary or Round Table event Has...

Hi All, Bearing in mind the terrrible tragedy at Aberfan many years ago can anyone tell me what happened to the slag heap at Hamstead? Is it still there? Old Boy

Hi John, Did you happen to know my old friend Tom Sutcliffe who also went to Cockshut Hill? He was about your age but has sadly passed away now. Chris Beresford (Old Boy)

Alan - I think you owe me an apology. The photograph on Post 1463 is definitely St Marys School. It even says so on the photograph. Please do not tell me to get my act together. Many of us on the Forum make mistakes. When they are pointed out we usually put our hands up and apologise if...

John, Thanks.I did think you meant behind the school. It did not really matter as smoke travels with the wind anyway. Talking of wind are you still in Weoley Castle? That was a terrible accident when the wind blew a tree over on to a car in Shenley Fields Road plus the tree falling on a...

Thank you Old Mohawk. A good tip. Chris Beresford (Old Boy)