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Adults and bigger children.

More mums and babies.

Mums with their babies.

Thank you for that. I think then that the railway viaduct in the distance is immediately to the south of Aston station.

Judging from some of the other pictures the destination had sea lion, parrots, flamingoes, paddle boats and a small helter-skelter. Could that be Twycross zoo, (not a place I have ever been)? The trip would have been organised by Birmingham City social workers I expect and they were a mixed...

Some happy children - no lemons!

These are the children of the inner city poor. I doubt if they have been on a trip before or had a camera pointed at them. They might just be bored waiting to get on the coach!

Loading the coach.

Perhaps not the best coach in the fleet?

Astoness, I have quite a few of these. They were photographed by my mum on half-frame 35mm slides, hence the dust. I did a mass scan some years ago and decided it would take too long to clean them all and that I might damage them in the procees. I could always go back and re-scan something worth...

Perhaps someone recognises this location?

Perhaps the first time these children from Newtown have been taken on a trip.

Poor but happy. Family life in 1960s Newtown.

It has barely survived, having been folded in half! It was a long time before my father bought a car of his own as he went on to work for Rover. Here he is driving a P4 at MIRA. I suspect that the wing mounted car aerial has actually been fitted as an aiming mark as the idea was for the car to...

The Rotunda from New Street station c1969

My dad and his sisters sitting on the running board of his father's 1926 Hillman 14 (It looks like it might have had a brake light set inside a warning triangle, someting discussed on a tram thread I recall).

We tend to think of operations on the Western Front and many are unaware of the East African Campaign where the country was far more hostile than the enemy, disease, lack of water and food being particulary hard on the animals: "The losses with the mounted troops were enormous - in the period...

Why did our fire crews change to wearing light brown tunics, as being worn by crews in the USA? Is just the case that the fabric used has special properties making it 'best of class' or are we just following USA fashion, (don't get me started on the idiotic fad of doctors slinging stethoscopes...

I think the design of UK bus stops is down to the local authority. Some authorities use a pictogram of a bus but Birmingham district doesn't. We seem to be in the process of changing from one with a small pictogram of a bus, front-on, in a circle, along with an 'n' in a circle to a design with...

That bus stop is beyond stupid. It looks like a bus bay has been provided, allowing traffic to flow past a stopped bus, then some bright spark has added a zebra crossing up ahead with its zig-zags fouling the bus bay, with the result that the bus stop has been moved back to a barely legal...