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The dreaded JAN HOOPER: Here he is again, with the young 'uns at Pirbright, where he was I/c Juniors.

Believe me, that IS Jan Hooper. I will never forget him.

Bob, this is in answer to your message regarding your Grandad. The best place to start will be: REGIMENTAL HQ. COLDSTREAM GUARDS, WELLINGTON BARRACKS, BIRDCAGE WALK, LONDON. That will get the ball rolling. If after a week or two, you haven't had a reply, please contact me again, and I will do...

Back then, they didn't fry in oil (it hadn't been created) it was usually dripping, and that has always given a bag of chips THAT SPECIAL flavour. Of course it was bad for us, according to the modern way of Healthy eating....I am 82, still here, and still would love a bag cooked in dripping!

The X99, was operated by Tamworth garage. I do not remember it running through Sutton, I think it ran Birmingham/Tamworth/Ashby/Nottingham.

Hi, Gerry here. Just a few points. As I said I worked all of the above EXCEPT the Cannock service, that you have as a 104. This was not worked by me during my first job at Sutton, 1957 to 1959. The other service that I did work was the 119, Birmingham, Perry Barr, Great Barr (Scott Arms) and the...

Excellent, thank you. I worked all of these. My wife went to school.

Ok, here we are back in the seventies. The days when the 42 traveled along College Road, Erdington bound, from the the top of College Road ( by the Seminary.....) As we travel, over on the right across the duel carriageway, was The Mayfair Cinema. We carry on until the Ridgeway, where we take a...

College Road by the Monastry, down the road past the Crossways, left at the island toward Six Ways Erdington, and that was the terminus, then round the island, and back down the road to the island, right past the old cinema, and up to the top by the monastry. Short & sweet. The 42E was something...

That name rings a bell ( no pun intended...) but it was so long ago....Mickey Brookes I know, and he was there a long time. I talk with him now and again.

Yes, by later standards it was, but, back then the bus was up to date, with semi-auto box, 10 litre unit (Cummings) a decent brake system, and so easy to drive. I loved it, out of all the buses I had to drive, it was a wonderful piece of engineering.....Then, along came four Volvo Ailsa's from...

As I mentioned before, I was at Sutton garage as a driver in the seventies. the 105 was a listed turn. I remember doing that service on a scorching hot day in 1976, in a "D-9" the bus windows all open, my cab windows all open, including the big one over the engine, and it was so hot, with...

Way back on here, a person posted that her father was a drummer at the theatre. This was in response to my enquiry about me going to the Aston Hipp on a Wednesday night, every week, with my parents, and having a tray of tea and biscuits brought to the seat at the interval....I know, I know, but...

May I add my congratulations on this posting, regarding the Midland ReD. As a conductor and then a driver, I enjoyed reading the old routes, and the pictures are quite spectacular. May I suggest that Wythall Museum of Buses would love to have these pictures and their stories in the Museum, and...

If I knew how to upload "Me Mom Said" I would. Its an mp3. Any ideas?

Leslie Hutchinson, was a pianist and singer, loved by a lot middle aged ladies. Known as "HUTCH", he did the variety theatre runs.

This took me back. I was a youngster back in the fifties, and would catch the bus from great Barr, and then walk from Wellfield Road, Perry Barr, to the Serpentine Ground. I loved the Onion Fair so much, that later, when I started to do bits of radio, I did a piece for Carl Chinn's programme...

Yes, in the later years, but we were talking about the late 1950's. I operated all of the services in the seventies. Thanks. Gerry

Hi Bob, I came off the Red in 1959, and went into the army, as a career soldier (Coldstream Guards) and then after I came back into civilian life, I went back to Sutton garage, as a driver, and did it all over again. All the same Red routes, plus some horrible WMPTE turns into Birmingham and out...

Hi Bob, yes, 107's and Main Roads, 102, Clarence Road/Hill Hook into Birmingham, 111, Roughly, also Tower Estates, then Brum, X12 and 112's yes all of them matey.