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Gosh what a picture, as there was nothing except thee three cottages and the 'Barracks' above the Greyhound until the late twenties and early thirties and I think this applies also to most of Court Lane from just below the Greyhound and the old terrace of houses that included Mrs Davies's shop...

Thanks to you all for your help, advice and pleasant words, any problems, I know where to come Bob

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Are there any pictures of Short Heath Park in Court Lane and Goosemoor Lane. Not a particularly interesting park, no boating lake or band stand, just some football pitches and changing rooms. I used to be a Sunday morning regular late forties early fifties to watch the football matches Bob

Yesterday was the first day of my retirement. Beautiful day, hot, got sunburnt, my youngest son, his wife and my granddaughter, came to the garden for a socially distanced picnic, Saffron buns, jam and cream and champagne. After working continuously since I was 16, (68 years), I felt the...

We are all talking of having had the vaccine and today 6 of us can social distance in a garden (just hope you do not have BPH or a bladder problem and need the 'loo'), but a serious question when are you next thinking of getting in one of those big silver birds in the sky that go to far off...

I have met up with this statement also when I was at the old family records centre in London, researching my untraceable gggrandfather and his family, but not only that statement, but also that the only coffin they had was a cardboard box. This was because infant deaths were so prevalent...

Look at the fascinating trades, bone turner,brooch (sic) glass cutter, spoon polisher and gimlet maker. I bèt the corkscrew maker led a twisted life? Were these all home workers?7 Bob

Google GWR La France or President for details on the three 4-4-0 French Atlantics, 102 La France, 103 President and 104 Alliance they were bought by Churchward to study the De Glenn compound system. Bob

Was there not some sort of relationship between Fiat and Lada? In the days when Fiat Finance was an offshoot of Forward Trust for whom I worked, I seem to remember Fiiat dealers talking about it and the fact that the Lada was a Russian Fiat. Bob

The Devonian and the Pines continued after the war, but does anybody know if the other two did, the one to Sidmouth would have been a sight to see especially crossing the Exeter Road in Exmouth on the bridge that took it from Exmouth to Budleigh. Also if it went Sidmouth first, what would the...

Thank you again all of you Bob

Thank you so much, very much appreciated and what speed Bob

Just discovered my grandmothers christening in this church, could one of the map experts, identify the location please and also two 'nearby' streets - 5 Portland Place, Johnstone Street and also 1bk57 Steward Street as on the same date as she was christened, her mothers brothers daughter was...

Rollers!!!!!!

Sorry to disagree with you OM, but LoD is one of the best series produced on the BBC for a long time, I have watched all the previous series, it is well scripted, well acted and well produced, it has almost a documentary flavour to it, loud music and noise, yes, it leaves you with cliff hangers...

We could have some fun with this picture. Have we ever seen anybody so suspicious looking on any of the thousand pictures on the forum as this guy. I fear that the woman and her daughter who look apprehensive are about to be taken hostage, luckily in that large bag she has............ Bob

Going back to my recent comment about the disappearance of the frock/skirt from ladies, when you went to suits were they trosered? If so what sort of date was that? I remember in about 2000, we were in New York and on Wall Street and all the power suited men and women heading into banks and...

Yes, in the forties and early fifties both LMR and WR used horse and cart until replaced by the three wheel Scammells. Bob

At Sutton Coldfield railway station, there was an enamel sign which said that anaemic girls need Virol. Never understood it. Bob