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Not fully restored, just painted. Hopefully will be got running again in the future.

No 14 is now at Statfold Barn, near Tamworth. Seen after cosmetic restoration, on delivery wagon.

Most of the Washwood Heath depot trams had bow collectors, and were used on the Washwood Heath 10 route as well. The overhead line equipment was slightly different to allow for these cars to collect current, and a small number remained fitted with poles to enable special workings, e.g Dunlop &...

Impressive!

Born 4 years after the war ended, I knew nothing of the horrors, even from history lessons, until events on the doorstep started to happen - e.g. the Birmingham pub bombings (Nov 1974), which I heard from Digbeth where I was working at the time. Seeing the media pictures of it the next day made...

Lol! While that may be possible, I also think it likely that the German intelligence would have people who had enough first hand knowledge of Britian to identfy places and possibly even bus designs and liveries. They also knew where thier bombers had been !

Was it still rail-connected? If for road traffic only, it would seem to be just because it was local available land.

I note that the numberplate on the front of one bus, and the fleet number on the back panel of the other has been censored out.

I remember it being rubber bricks for that reason,

Yes this was for short workings of the 49 & 50 in rush periods, AM to give empty buses for between here & Kings Heath as well as Kings Heath itself.as they were often full from the Maypole. Ditto PM, extra capacity for the numbers travelling. It is now used for Running Day workings from the...

Bournville shed, yes, but not on Cadbury land or anything to do with the company. The site is now housing on Selly Hall Croft, York Close and Lnncaster Close.

No circles usually for trams, the conductor would 'flip' the reversable seats and swing the electric pole to the other end, and the driver would just take his handle to to what had been the back and it became the front. The pub's nickname came from the fact that Kings, royalty and the upper...

That is the LMS Railway loco shed, nothing to do with Cadbury's.

Some of the early posts on this board refer to the "Old" M&S store that was bombed in WW2. The burnt out shell of the Marshall and Snelgroves Department Store, New Street, Birmingham. The store was destroyed by fire after being hit by incendiary bombs during an air raid on the city in October...

I grew up very close to this spot. It is the triangle of Hagley Rd, Sandon Rd and Meadow Rd where the ornamental fountain used to stand (which was taken down for scrap in WW1), The railings behind the coach were tasken for the WW2 war effort a little later on. Here's a picture from the...

I don't think they were expected to last long - just an advertising stunt. Hope they chose a dry week!

I used to do my own car repairs, having mostly 'older' cars. I couldn't afford the luxury of an on the road sepair service, and was not happy to be pestered by them cajoling you to join. "I think you ought to be a member, Sir!" one of them said with a sickly smile, "as you drive an older car!"...

Not quite frugality - more a case of "Is it necessary?" Speeds in excess of 60 MPH were not under consideration, and standard (narrow to the GWR) gauge had proved capable for the task in most other railway constructions, so GWR were literally put out on a limb.

There's a short length at Didcot (Great Western Society Museum) but the one working locomotive, 'Fire Fly', is out of service awaiting a boiler overhaul. It would be nice (but horrifically expensive) to build a Broad gauge heritage railway somewhere, where there could be full length trains and...

I suspect death of those waiting is the greater reducer of the waiting lists. If such a question ever appeared, I'd reply "Yes I am, is the Doctor?"