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  1. Bob Davis

    Covid vaccination process

    We are all talking of having had the vaccine and today 6 of us can social distance in a garden (just hope you do not have BPH or a bladder problem and need the 'loo'), but a serious question when are you next thinking of getting in one of those big silver birds in the sky that go to far off...
  2. Bob Davis

    Cemetery search

    I have met up with this statement also when I was at the old family records centre in London, researching my untraceable gggrandfather and his family, but not only that statement, but also that the only coffin they had was a cardboard box. This was because infant deaths were so prevalent...
  3. Bob Davis

    Benjamin Morgan's Pearl Works or Morgan's Buildings, MacDonald Street

    Look at the fascinating trades, bone turner,brooch (sic) glass cutter, spoon polisher and gimlet maker. I bèt the corkscrew maker led a twisted life? Were these all home workers?7 Bob
  4. Bob Davis

    Steam Locos

    Google GWR La France or President for details on the three 4-4-0 French Atlantics, 102 La France, 103 President and 104 Alliance they were bought by Churchward to study the De Glenn compound system. Bob
  5. Bob Davis

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Was there not some sort of relationship between Fiat and Lada? In the days when Fiat Finance was an offshoot of Forward Trust for whom I worked, I seem to remember Fiiat dealers talking about it and the fact that the Lada was a Russian Fiat. Bob
  6. Bob Davis

    Adverts of yesteryear.

    The Devonian and the Pines continued after the war, but does anybody know if the other two did, the one to Sidmouth would have been a sight to see especially crossing the Exeter Road in Exmouth on the bridge that took it from Exmouth to Budleigh. Also if it went Sidmouth first, what would the...
  7. Bob Davis

    Parish of St John Ladywood

    Thank you again all of you Bob
  8. Bob Davis

    Parish of St John Ladywood

    Thank you so much, very much appreciated and what speed Bob
  9. Bob Davis

    Parish of St John Ladywood

    Just discovered my grandmothers christening in this church, could one of the map experts, identify the location please and also two 'nearby' streets - 5 Portland Place, Johnstone Street and also 1bk57 Steward Street as on the same date as she was christened, her mothers brothers daughter was...
  10. Bob Davis

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Rollers!!!!!!
  11. Bob Davis

    What do you watch on tv nowadays ?

    Sorry to disagree with you OM, but LoD is one of the best series produced on the BBC for a long time, I have watched all the previous series, it is well scripted, well acted and well produced, it has almost a documentary flavour to it, loud music and noise, yes, it leaves you with cliff hangers...
  12. Bob Davis

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    We could have some fun with this picture. Have we ever seen anybody so suspicious looking on any of the thousand pictures on the forum as this guy. I fear that the woman and her daughter who look apprehensive are about to be taken hostage, luckily in that large bag she has............ Bob
  13. Bob Davis

    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Going back to my recent comment about the disappearance of the frock/skirt from ladies, when you went to suits were they trosered? If so what sort of date was that? I remember in about 2000, we were in New York and on Wall Street and all the power suited men and women heading into banks and...
  14. Bob Davis

    New Street Station From 1854 - 1966

    Yes, in the forties and early fifties both LMR and WR used horse and cart until replaced by the three wheel Scammells. Bob
  15. Bob Davis

    Adverts of yesteryear.

    At Sutton Coldfield railway station, there was an enamel sign which said that anaemic girls need Virol. Never understood it. Bob
  16. Bob Davis

    Old street pics..

    Love those cars Bob
  17. Bob Davis

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    ....... keep them coming please. Bob
  18. Bob Davis

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    How soulless this all looks, I know it is wet and in black & white, but somehow you know you would not want to holiday here. Keep them coming. Bob
  19. Bob Davis

    My Nan's sayings

    Strangely enough my lunch time task today was to try and solve your question, (only really to stop me keep going back to the Court Lane and Goosemoor Lane pictures posted by Tates) but whilst I could find hundreds of meanings for I'll be blowed, I could not find the etymology or an original...
  20. Bob Davis

    Old street pics..

    Court Lane & Goosemoor Lane, oh gosh its like watching the repair shop, a touch of nostalgia overtook me. A tissue please. Thanks so much for posting them. Bob
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