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I remember the pool being drained about every 2-3 years in the 60s & 70s for cleaning. The amount of broken bottles convinced me never to go paddling in it, but it was ideal for toy yachts & boats - until the wind dropped or the clockwork motors ran down in the middle of the water.

This was St Thomas' church, built 1828/9. On the night of 11 December 1940, during World War II, all but the tower and classical west portico was destroyed by German bombs. The remaining portico and tower have been preserved and are now part of St. Thomas' Peace Garden.

Yes, the top deck was cut off, then the lower deck was lifted off its bogies and put onto a low-loader lorry, then the bogies were put into the lower deck and the top deck placed on top. This was necessary as the route to the scrapyard in Stratford on Avon had a low bridge en route. The single...

Some friends who now live on Anglesey have this 'Holly Place' sign - I don't know the original location but it might have come from an area being demolished. It has block letters screwed (or nailed) to the backing, and appears very old. Their last home in Birmingham was on Warwick Road, Tyseley.

There is a Mill Lane on the northern side of the coach station, and I've often assumed there was a mill thereabouts fed by a watercourse running from the Manor House moat (Moat Lane) down to the River Rea. (Mind you, there is also an Upper Mill Lane between Moat Lane and Digbeth, opposite the...

I can remember the tests in the 60s when I was at school (Edgbaston district). Thursday afternoon, as I recall, about every 2 or 3 months.

No, more - but in the main the 14'6" ones were 54/56/58 seats but shorter, being older and before regulations on length allowed longer than 27'. The standard London Routemaster was a 27' 64 seater (36 over 28), whilst the slightly later longer RML was 29' 10.6" and 72 seats (40 over 32). For a...

68. 37 upstairs, 31 down. 2 crew.

? Double deck buses normally have a height of 14 feet 6 inches, and 'lowbridge' ones (with a sunken gangway on one side) were a foot lower. Barton Transport's bus number 861 is 12 ft 5 in (3.78 m) tall. This makes it the lowest ever British closed-top double-decker bus. It is seen here alongside...

Operators of large fleets can pre- book blocks of numbers, as Birmingham City Transport did with JOJ 1-999 and MOF 1-226. Glasgow did similar with FYS 101-999 and BUS 101-200. Even more recently, West Midlands booked a number of BU51 prefix registrations (BUS1 !). London Transport would book...

Sorry, but the one other person who might know, the Wythall Museum Battery Electric Vehicle expert, also passed away in August. Us 'Baby Boomer' transport enthusiasts are fast approaching our terminal stations, I'm afraid.

Burley fleet list (Vehicles purchased NEW only)

Checked again with https://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/

Austin K4.

There may be something in the corporation's archives, I don't know. Incidentally, the author of this work, Roger Frederick De Boer, passed away suddenly on Tuesday of this week, aged c78. R.I.P. Roger.

This view is of the second (1871) station, looking north. The passenger buildings are on the left, accessed from Livery Street far left.

It does seem a sensible business plan to convert canals to railways, where speed of travel is faster and the amount of billable goods able to be carried is more, but - what happens to the traffic during the rebuilding period? It would be like saying the elevated section of the M6 between, say...

The attached picture is the plastics works referred to above, and this page http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0438.htm is a description of, with pictures, the works in the pre-war era. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0438.htm

Aerial picture of the Garner works. The Prince of Wales pub has the red mark on its roof.

Recently found this picture of a Sentinel Steam Lorry.