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Serving at Kenyon Street one did traffic duty on Hockley Brook. You could be posted to it for two hours at a time, on ones daytime traffic hours. On the hour for a few minutes you would be relieved by a colleague on an adjoining beat. You would reciprocate when his traffic duty time came...

Re: Searching Hurley family Aston tadrussell. Taking a step away from your paternal line and onto the Felkins. I do not have much info as this line married into my step maternal line. I pass the little I have onto but apart from it being a red herring may assist you should you look into...

To the left of the front of the church there was in the late 1950's a wooden lean to hut against the church wall. In there could be found the 'park keeper' whose job was to keep the grounds safe etc. He was a portly short chap who, to my knowledge, opened up his hut in the morning and there he...

Not a true claim to fame but as a young bobby i had stopped a vehicle and the driver gave me the name Pat Roach. It was in the days before Pat was known and he lived with his mother in Ladywood. Later I called on his address to detain him. A big bloke admitted me into the kitchen and was...

OldMowhawk- The second corporal from the right reminds me of a Corporal Sharpe. I could be wrong, for time attacks memory, but he does resemble him. Our instructor was 'Jenkins'. While at Padgate there was a lad who went 'hunting' for Sharpe with a baseball bat. Seem to recall the snow drops...

In April 1956, following being kitted out at RAF Cardington we were loaded into a train and transported to Padgate. Standing on the platform awaiting trucks to take us to our drill station I saw a silver gasometer behind which were black thunderous clouds. It was so stark. Could this be an omen...

Memories......... Dealt with my first road traffic accident under that bridge in 1958. A bloke pulling a cart with 'any old iron' on board was collected by a car going in the same direction of the Lone Ranger. No injuries - just pride damaged. Before anyone asks - no that is not me attending the...

A week after Cardington, for kitting out, I too was a lamb to the slaughter at RAF Padgate in May, 1956. Old Mohawk you would not have been in the earlier entrants who on leaving trashed our wooden quarters or were you one who followed us after we had kindly done the same for those who followed...

Sylyal, When I pounded the beat in Hockley in the late fifties - Cambridge Street was policed by officers from Kenyon Street Police Station. That was then and I accept that police areas could change over the interim time span. Will.

Back in 1958 I was a bobby working from Kenyon Street. The old hands spoke of a policeman being buried there at some time in the dim and distant past. Was told not to be too bothered in policing the buildings in the square as this was that bobbies beat. This was obviously something that had...

Dave, Sorry no trace of Parkinson Cowan but if they did not win any of the divisions, of which there are on average twenty four, they would not be shown. There is a firm Parkinson Stoves who won in 1928. Hope the following comes out for it shows a photo from the book of all the silver ware of...

Dave, Would be happy to assist but the book lists the winners of the various competitions from 1906 to 1954. It lists the competitions into numerous cups and shields. There are so many it is like looking for the proverbial needle. Do you know the sheild/cup the various teams played for and I can...

My late father in law left me a book "The Birmingham and District Works Amateur Football Association, Golden Jubilee Souvenir Book, covering from its inception in 1905 (by its founder John H. Webster) until 1955. Understand my father in law played for Gaskell and Chambers in the early...

I think you will find it is the Flats in Hockley. Apart from the bollards in the foreground it hasn't changed that much since I prowled round there. Will.

Not following the title of the subject exactly, I know, but my wife was a chemistry teacher. She became aware of an expression she used in her classes at an Art exhibition class the school held one year. One of the exhibits was a photograph of my wife and a group of girls around a bunsen burner...

Christopher, If you were an ex-pupil then there is a one off open day at the old school premises, corner of Newton Road, on Thursday 28th October. They have been given permission to have the hours from 10 am to 3 pm open for old students to go down memory lane. If you search the web for the...

Geff, My late father in law was a bar fitter at G & C . He was with them for a number of years and left when the firm closed down. Jack Wake was his name? Will.

Oddly OKMowhawk my life went the other way. Between 1956 and 1958, whilst I was doing my National Service, I introduced myself to the Fleur-de-lis chicken pies sold at that stall whilst I waited to catch the Sunday midnight milk train to London returning to camp. Cold nights on a station...

Just finished it. why a bloke reading it? Well my lady got it out of the library and I picked it up. Enjoyed the read and learned things I did not appreciate on childbirth. OK am told it hurts like heck. However that the story may be based on fact I am sure there has been a lot of poetic...

This is the memorial in Newhaven town that commemorates the Dieppe Raid. Frequently there are flowers at its base.