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Tidied as best I can. It's still a bit blurred though.

Cheaper than riot vans, and can do more damage to rioters - legally!

Even more a blessing when you could do it online! 1am was my favourite time to do it! Legal by the time I got up to go to work.

You used to have 14 days 'grace' to retax the car, which I used to the full! Then go to Oozells Street and pay the backdated time as well as the rest of the year (or 6 months). Never used a Guinness label, but did sometimes put a "Tax in post" note in the windscreen. Now there is no disc to...

Some seem to have been done down a coal cellar with the light off. I always use the original and only read the typed one if I need confirmation of something - it's often wrong but gives another clue.

Also reminds us of how good current affairs programmes were back then - the 'Tonight' team, led by Cliff Michelmore have always been the best in my view.

Indeed. I was what was termed "wheel happy", drove anything anywhere whenever I could. Bus & Coach driver most of my working life. Having retired, I found that getting the car through an MOT test was going to cost far more than it was worth, I scrapped it, didn't drive anything for a couple of...

Yes - have kids and grandkids. Best things ever!

Bedford. The Austin of the period was very similar, but had two vertical strips down the grille front. They were nicknamed "Birmingham Bedfords"!

I must have about 15 "Local energy advisors". I say yes, I'm interested, but I think you really should talk to my landlord.

"Oh which one?" I ask. "I have altzheimers, and don't remember how many I've hit this month!" I know, shouldn't make fun of a terrible affliction but it does get rid of them.

It is possibly a degree or two warmer there, incoming contents being at house temperature.

These are the types who go swimming in the sea on Christmas day, or crack ice in lakes to go for a dip. If my shower goes a few deggrees cool, I almost get a heart attack from the shock!

Almost every village had at leaast one Smith, the trade name of metalworkers. They could do anything from repairing (and even making) farm machinery, carts & wagons, metal gates, making and fitting horse shoes. Little wonder the commonest name in Britain used to be 'Smith'. A 'Farrier' deals...

I remember pump prices at the local garage (Cranmore Bros, Hagley Road) jumping from 4/10 to 5/- a gallon. I said to my father that I expect it'll double in my lifetime, he laughed and said "People will stop driving before it gets that much!" Sorry dad, wrong there!

Points were often changed electrically - the trolley head energised a connection as it passed over it which changed the points. some were done manually by a lever inserted into the track to move the sliding rails, trailing points were held by spring and the wheels flipped them as they passed...

Found this apprentice indenture form from nearly 100 years ago on the internet. https://pewsey-heritage-centre.org.uk/images/modes_images/E768a.jpg

Of the three vehicles present, KDH 686 and GOB 959 were both registered either late 1946 or early 1947, while DOX 917 was new in February or March 1938, which fits with the 1949 date. pjmburns' map (#40) shows the buildings still present in 1951 (or whenever the map was drawn, not long before)...

Amazing to think that some of those fittings may date back to the earliest days of the Corporation Tramways in 1904 = over 120 years ago!

Again, back in the late 1950s I got soaked by riding my tricycle into the pool (!) and was taken by a worker (gardener?) to a room through the left hand door in those staff quarters, where there was a roaring coal stove to dry out and wait for my father to come with some dry clothes for me...