Search results

Not there, but children from Benson Road School were involved in one - see https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/benson-road-school-50-years-anniversary-train-crash.53625/

Used to see red squirrells in Warley Woods in the late 1950s.

Probably the only way to fly in those days.

Not who, where. The precursor of Bingley Hall was an "Exhibition of the Manufactures of Birmingham and the Midland Counties" in a temporary wooden hall built in the grounds of, and attached to, Bingley House on Broad Street in central Birmingham (once the home of banker Charles Lloyd).

It is almost as if they wanted it to fail.

https://www.vectis.co.uk/977-lot-885420-saxon-tower-toys-uk-deep-sea-diver-novelty-toy

Purchase tax! So the equivalent of VAT would be 21.16%.

Re the van: These and early Jowett cars had a horizontally opposed two cylinder engine, advertised as "The little engine with the big pull"!

How easily pleased we were!

I had two, a very nice light green one, NPD 224 which is sadly no longer on the DVLC computer, and a riffy blue & cream one which I sold for spares when it failed an MOT. Nice cars, and as I like column gearchanges kept them on until I needed

From 'Tramway & Railway World', 1922 WHAT the Tramway & Railway World, London, considers the most important service of Railless trolley cars yet introduced in Great Britain, or any other country, has just been commenced by the Birmingham Corporation's tramway department. On a route which...

These buses, 1-10 [OA 1601-10] were new in 1913 with bodies by the London General Omnibus Company, seating 16 inside and 18 outside (as 'on top' used to be called) for the feeder services from Rednal and Rubery to the then tram terminus at Selly Oak. The chassis were comandeered ay the war...

Do you have interest in Mr Horewood (b. 2nd q 1853 Carn Cross, Stroud, Gloucestershire, d. 1915), late of Marion Terrace, Coplow Street, Icknield Port Road?

26th was a Saturday, 28th was a Monday.

These were paper stickers for coach windscreens, kept in a store room over the inspectors office which was behind the cenral pillar of the exit doors in Mill Lane. In a rebuilding in the late 1970s the doorway was widened by removing this pillar, and the inspector's office was moved to an upper...

Arthur & Ivy Davies were at 300 Gooch Street 1952-7 at least. This was the Clements Arms. It was discussed on https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/star-inn-gooch-street.13635/

Although that is repurposing a machine with another use - a rotovator.

https://3-wheelers.com/magento/index.php/a-z/l/lawson-s-motor-wheel.html

Snap!