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Especially if you were a young lad stood right down the front. I will say no more than that, not great memories, even when they won. Best moment was if the football special was one of the remaining 1930s AEC buses to take you home. Bob

This theme shows what BHF is all about, there is almost a Dickensian novel here, good work all of you for making some fascinating reading, by the way the page from the book that started the thread was also interesting, reading the column on the left hand side made me more curious. What was the...

Interesting, the mini and is it a Capri are P registered, the estate is M registered, none of them local registrations, were they the printing companies or just pure chance. M - 1973, N - 1974 & P - 1975 Bob

I'd put those on ebay or vinted (claim they are antique and pre-used, but you could put 'one careful owner' or similar Bob

WTB wanted to buy, WTS wanted to sell Bob

National Express, current operator of stage routes in the West Midlands Bob

My grandmothers doctor. Bob

Bought my wifes engagement ring there in1959, it cost two weeks wages, I know how to show a girl. class , it was diamond bits in a floral rosette shape, had to have one of them replaced, cost more than the ring. Yes she still wears it, although a few years a ago, I bought one with diamonds...

Those are impressive 'Derbies' they are both wearing, but reminiscent of another forum, all but one of them wearing headgear. Do you think the guy with the suit and shirt and tie is the 'gaffer'. What a pity 'suit's' leg covers the boat's company name. But what a wonderful age defining...

Hope everything goes well on Thursday Bob

You are lucky to be able to read the road signs, in this neck of the woods they are so dirty, you can barely make them out and a local councillor in Torridge has been threatened with court action for going out and trying to clean them. However that is something I remember as my Dad(and...

Ah, the dying days of Snow Hill and steam when engines from the enemy breached the portals of Snow Hill, Patriots, Jubilees and Black Fives, some came up from Gloucester Shed. Where did the 6pm for Wolverhampton come from? Surely it was not a Paddington - Wolverhampton, more likely a train...

The lamp is a gas lamp I think. Bob

When did Birmingham police get their more ornate helmet, my remembrance is of a silvered band above the brim and possibly elsewhere. But look at the history in that picture. Sep 3rd, war declared, Sep 4th, Dixon has got his tin hat and his gas mask. Mind how you go. Bob

At that time there were still living reminders of the horrors of a gas attack in people like my grandfather who was a victim of a mustard gas attack whilst with the Warwicks in WWI and as we were probably experimenting with it and similar silent killers, it was high on the list of what to be...

Sold out in 2007, all eight engines went up to Hampshire, but that railway did not survive and seven engines including the 'big boy' are now in Australia, one remains in Eastleigh. The Dobwalls attraction was based on two US railways. Bob

We always did 23082020 Corpoal Davis. R, RASC with 61 Lorried infantry brigade at Minden, Germany, original shoulder flash mailed glove, later 4th Infantry Division, quartered orange. ALLES IST GUT, JA

BrookvalePark always had a good selection of sticklebacks and the other small fish...memory gone again, Guppy? Used to be a place near George Masons where you could by a fishing net 9d I think. Bob

Late as usual, but hope you have a good and happy day and do not get pinged

Just be glad Bruce Willis was not in there in his vest with you. On a serious note a very frightening experience, and I know people who will not use glass lifts outside buildings, because they like to be enclosed. I used to love those old lifts and when at Dunlop, found out how to stop one...