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My mistake, sorry, I thought it was Alan Hunt, who I think was born in Aston. Just aged confusion on my part.

it doesn't seem fair or right.

Yes thank you. What did the "walker" signify?

There was an Australian speedway rider in the 50's who seemed to win every race. He was in the home side at Perry Barr, can anyone remember his name? Alan ??

Isn't it amazing if London wants a fast train to the continent Eurostar! But if Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, etc etc want the same, what a kerfuffle.

It was fine for London to have access to Europe with a fast train ( Eurostar ) But if Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and all cities north want a connection, what a kerfuffle.

In between metal and digital that we now use on computers, there was photosetting whereby the type/letter was printed as an image on a photographic paper. the negative image of a type face, and you could pretty much any type face, was held by the Bethold Press in Germany. After 1980 typefaces...

Just above Reeve and Stedeford was an extension of the City of Birmingham School of Arts and Craft, the Graphic Design and Illustration Dept.

Waiting for the number 10 on a cold night

On a frozen day, we had a slide that finished in the drain.

I remember Randolf Turpin visiting our street in a very flash American car.

Shakespear House

Isn't that place was where the first episodes on The BBC, of the Archer's was broadcast from?

When I was a student, I spilled a whole case /tray of 10 point ( which is quite small) metal type on the floor. Of course I had to pick it all up and put it in the correct box on the tray. All type is reversed and difficult to read, especially the lower case B's P's Q's and D's. The type face...

Just a couple of hundred yard down the road towards the Crown Hotel/Pub is St.Peter and St. Martins Place. Odd having two saints in close proximity, But the church was called St.Peters.

My school went to Metchley lane for a sports day, it was the cricket season and after a huge downpour, and the terrific smell of cut grass, I took my first ever wicket from a long hop.