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Absolutely, here is Proof House Junction on the Digbeth Branch Canal ///drift.fame.exit

In the countryside yes, but I would not rely on this when at sea. Once you establish your location you can share you position with others.

I use it occasionally It quite a simple way of showing, recording or sharing a location with three words based on 9m squares. I find it useful in locating a place without a post code, say a farm track where your going to turn or park then sending the three words to your navigation system

Hi Darkustwo Welcome to Birmingham History Forum. I am sorry to hear about your dad; I know him and have worked with him in the days at the local authority. He’s a good guy who was a spitting image of my granddad too. We would say you could tell he was a Pardoe by his looks. We lost touch many...

I do recall the wooden sets along Slade Road Erdington. They ran from the kerbs to about 6ft out into the road. They had been tarmacked over which was lifting and showing the wooden sets. The center of the road was quite a good surface which I was told was where the old tram tracks were lifted...

There were quarries at Mancetter, Atherstone who employed gangs of women to cut sets for roads. They did it all with hammers by hand and eyed them to size.

Now you have said that I have this very vague recollection of him building a boat, but I could be filling gaps. There was a trend at the time for budding sailors to build the mirror dinghy, a boat you could make form a single sheet of ply y a method of stich and tape.

I recall a guy called Barry who lived on Harcourt Road. He was a carpenter for the Council Housing Department for a while and he built a wooden car in the front garden.

Is it worth collecting some of the berries and potting them up?

I quite liked Tekaloid and used in on my motorbikes. I once had a job to repaint a Mini Moke, the guy I did it for said its already primed but I had no idea what he had used. The Tekaloid finish looked amazing but a few week later he came back because the Tekaloid had lifted of almost...

Well, you must have driven different stuff to me then Pete. I had a triumph bike that was a pain to start and if you drove it, you were lucky to get more than 300 miles before something needed looking at. My Ford Escort was better once rebuilt, but I still have to change oil ever 1,500 miles...

The roads had less traffic but also less capacity and cars were less reliable and needed a lot more servicing than today.

If you already had one then at least you now get some breathing space.

Was Erdington test centre on the corner of Hunton Hill and Gravelly Hill or Kingsbury Road and Bromford Lane? I took my test at the Broadway Witton

Have one of those and you will be flying and without a plane

I do recall a garage with a 2 stroke pump, It mixed as it dispensed.

I can remember Castrol 20-20 when you had winter and summer roil in the engine

on a crash box?

There was also a “Disabled Driver, no Hand Signals” sign in some cars.

I was having a chat the other day about driving in days gone by. When I took my test, I had to do hand signals. I recall that in the Highway Code there were also illustrations of hand signals for people driving a horse and carriage, showing how you would signal your intentions with the whip...