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Technical Schools training for the service industry mostly I suspect. At least that is the scenario in NA. What used to be City and Guilds level is appropriate perhaps. Math and calculus is little required today outside of scientific endeavours...maybe that was always the case for most that...

This is a perfectly amicable conversation and the wages of Nailer's and comparisons to, is not off topic as I see it. I was an apprentice draughtsman in 1955 and 10/6 was the starting wage at General Electric in 1955 for this trade. You can not forget something like that. Sure after 5 years ones...

OK. Clarke with an 'e'. Always get that wrong. He watched the Blues games from the south stands about half way, as I recall him saying. I remember that because I always stood there but I never saw him at a game. We all started off with a school blazer and badge but you know how kids grow at that...

RIP Dennis, you had the admiration of your friends here. Condolences to family. Rupert (also a Dennis)

The 'third year' comprised of students from the Building stream and Mechanical and numbered about upper thirties per class as I recall. So a third of the pupils would be from Building and we only met them ever at that time. Strange situation and it must have been the same for them. I remember a...

7/- a week was maybe big money back then. When I started work in 1955, my wage was 10/6 a week. Not much more for doing a heck of a lot more qualified work than simple labour. Fortunately I quickly acquired a knowledge of the world...and left for good.

Not knowing what is meant by the word nail in those days, I have trouble in visualizing manufacturing process. I suppose a forge might be required for making extremely large nails...maybe rectangular section...for shipbuilding and such but I can't see how individual nail handling would similarly...

A lot of work was done to put all of that together. A wonderful find.

Why not give it a proper entrance and forecourt? It can still be in the style that you favour. I seem to remember that it was a bit cramped inside. Probably big enough in it's day. I also seem to remember from here that it was rebuilt once because of a structural failure. Lewiss's makes a better...

The T.H. is not aesthetically attractive to me. There is more to a building than pillars and a peaked roof and fancy lighting. It could be improved, to my eyes anyway, if it had some kind of frontal entrance. As it is, it stands on an 'air raid shelter like' raised plinth with any entrance hard...

There are all kinds of photo's and paintings of the Old Crown across the street and I bet the buildings in question have been caught in a photo or two.

Found this one from somewhere. Velocette LE. Yeah great for doing the beat on I would think. Beats a push bike. This one is a later kick start model with foot change. I seem to think that the earlier ones had a hand lever start and hand gear shifter. Oh and a radiator for engine cooling...

Well, if you have pushed a handcart east on Great Lister St. I think you would say that it certainly would not run away with you for the most part. Certainly the terrain decline starts as a gradual slope as you approach Saltley Viaduct past the library but until that point there is no hill...

It's funny but coming out of Brum along this way, you don't get an impression of there being a hill at all. It all seems so flat after Lister Street and Dartmouth. Richard St remains pretty much as of old but the gas holders have gone. Coming the other way though you can see the hill and the...

Just add...'and police bikes'...the bikes are more interesting.

Maybe he should have put himself on the list. How can you have a quota of shot men of any rank. One thing is certain about wars I suspect and that is that the winners stay alive. Maybe if the hierarchy led from the front, there would be a shortage of applicants.

I think that all shows develop an individual's following over time. I don't think series have instant success often and a few episodes have to elapse before they get into a formula for success. Topical humour is lost over time also. So going back to something would be like starting all over...

Handsworth was a higher class housing area I think. The row houses post # 1200 have a more substantial higher quality build about them than the ones I knew. Nice.

The area 1890. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55193&sheetid=10096&ox=538&oy=3116&zm=1&czm=1&x=101&y=419

May not have been battle related at all other than just being there. Exposure, disease, and infections killed more soldiers than anything else in wartime. At least it used to be the case I have read. It all counts.