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Good to see some of my work still in place after i worked on its revamp start to finnish in the 70s for Norton Contractors

As a joiner we used knock screws all the way home then giving a couple of turns with a screwdriver it left hammer marks in the wood ie A Babies Bottom or a half a Crown Chargehand used to say no B/ham Screwdrivers

Hope this is correct place for this Am i hearing this right Perry Barr Greyhound Stadium Is shuting down this summer?

I was born there

I loved the Cannon Hill Park set up

Richard check out post nr 38

It was very close to the bridge

Richard is the butchers shop Thompsons they had a slaughter house and a shop in Kingstanding

Proper pub not like the rubbish plastic palaces of today

Fantastic photos well done

Yes Richard i was happy when wife unpacked it i have 11 Foggers whose photos i have posted on forum but this is Special Franks the main thing with these lamps is to have the guts matching the the company on the lamp only 2 are factory finnish

US Army Chaplin/Padre Willies Jeep Unit Censored

Madam has just upacked this Yes we still uppacking Got this repainted LMS lamp of a old railway guy who used to drink in the Red Lion Erdington in the 70s At the time i went of to do my Basic. at Whitington barracks Sadly on my return he had passed away so i never got the story on it i have...

Because its a famous persons Grave i came across when walking The dogs Ref the large amount of butterflys I encounter there

The reason i recall the colour is because i spent so much time climbing them

I recall the top being a beige cream colour the bottom being a sort of maroon the larger lamps painted council green then later on biue

Good Old Oak

Im sure it was Midland Red in the 60s when i used it i might be proved wrong we have many members on here who are legends in these matters

She was of early Coronation St soap fame

We always have a pair of cabbage whites in our front garden but nothing else yet when i walk the hounds in a overgrown cemetery 5 mins away its butterfly heaven in the wild parts intresting reading Victorian graves FOOTNOTE Violet Carson/Ena Sharples Gravestone