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And in your article you accurately sum up the demise of the British car industry

The chap on the left is saying to the chap in the middle 'this is your lot is it?' to which the chap in the middle replies 'never seen them before', the MD says 'so somebody must know something' and the chap on the far left is saying 'ask me, ask me, my grandson made them at nursery school...

Woolaway bungalows, where they made in Barnstaple as there was a large contractors here who also had dredgers dredging sand from the Taw estuary and they were house builders

Is this The Green Man in Harborne, with Grays Road on the right?

There goes another bit of my youth, I am thinking of all those night service bus rides that were part of a night at the Tower. Bob

......and you finished with the shortest shag pile in the road Bob

Did you notice the dustman in the olden days used to go in your back garden carry the bin to the dust cart, take the bin back to your back garden and pick up any rubbish that they dropped. That was a fantasy film was it not, last Thursday I put out the green garden waste bin which we pay...

Nowadays he would get a smacked wrist a fine with surcharge but hard labour what would the woke say? What actually was hard labour? No he is not in my family tree Bob

Those steelc orner posts were very sharp if you hit them. This is a picture that brought back memories, every time the siren went mum, my sister and me would scramble in and at least one of us would knock ourselves somewhere as we scrambled in. As the war progressed, we did not rush in, but...

Just re reading the David Harvey et Al book on the Outer Circle and there in one of the pictures is a bus with this destination. The interesting thing is the bus with this blind up is not one of the regulars, it is one of Acocks Greens GOE AECs. Bob

page 99 and it only started in January will this be the fastest 100 pages has been reached on the forum and for that matter 2000 posts (32 to go) Bob

Did anyone see the Fox and Grapes being demolished on BBC2 tonight as they looked at the Park Street burial ground in Britain's biggest dig, good programme and some interesting information but alas and alack so much seems to have to be destroyed for HS2. Bob

Sorry did not really explain the last sentence, late at night and to much O'Donnell Moonshine, I had indicated in front of a 21 year old and a 17 year old that I was away up the Midlands for the weekend. The 17 year old asked where the Midlands were and that was the 21 year old reply that he...

Tau WOW! this has got deep and very interesting, there was a difference between secondary modern schools and grammar schools, what they taught and how they taught it. I went BVGS and that was all university èducated teachers who wore gowns and were strong disciplinarians, where the classics...

Cathy McGowan is Michael Balls partner. Bob

Obviously fat finger struck again. Bob

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I would agree with MWS, Twilton's premises are at High Street, Erdington, but as picture postcards like this did not appear until the early 20th Century, this is a picture from an earlier era, made into a postcard. Was it postally used? Are there any Erdington post card collectors on the...

Stay on the soapbox you are telling it like it is. Bob

How right you are and of course if you look at a great many of the street pictures on the Forum, there is a corner shop. Nowadays, most of the corner shops that are left are owned by a larger retailer or if there are still individuals running shops (grocery or similar) they are also members of...