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They were built up towards the bottom right hand side of lower G shop. I remember there was a lot of piano wire used to line up various location pads and the measuring equipment that was used was the types used in civil engineering. I think they were coming to the end of the contract when I...

When I first started at Turner Bros they were indeed making jigs for aircraft wing, they were to faciltate the fitting of the wing root to the fuselage. They were built up at Turners and then shipped to the customers factory where they where finally set up and aligned. The aircraft was the...

There was another big shaper in the dugout in front of the works office Graham and I think that was operated by Tony Hemus. You would remember Vic, he was not that tall and had flowing fair hair and wore glasses and he wore a boiler suit whereas the others wore cowgowns. I think he lived in the...

I remember Vic he was a shaper in G dept. His colleagues on the section were Stan Flaherty and Ron Bowley. I always remember Vic having a brand new Ford Cortina when they first came out I think it had a registration plate with A at the end, the first time year letters were introduced in the UK.

And where the Queens offspring are concerned, not long marriages either,:shocked::shocked:

Most of the people I knew at Turner's I lost touch over the years apart from the odd one or two but I daresay many have passed on. There is one guy I could ask as he is in his late 70's now and is someone I worked with for most of my life from 1967. If you knew what department he was progress...

I can recall Charlie Moseley but I cannot put a face to the name nor what Dept. he worked in. I was there from 1958-1967 and when I first started there was supposedly almost a 1000 employees. Do you have any photo's of your grandad that you could post on this thread?

If you have an imaging program on your computer you should be able to convert it to a positive I think.

Handsworth for sure, Grove Road?

Dolly pegs are available at all Wilkinson stores :):)

Blimey Elf And Safety would be having heart failure if that happened anywhere near a railway track these days

Don't be buying a Magnum ice choc bar than that will cost you 30 bob

I bow to your greater knowledge Pro Civitate

Good to see on tonights episode that they choose to use a football ground with decent colours.:):):):)

I certainly do not think the B'ham Mail employs any proof readers, I was surprised to read an article last week which reported on damage caused byhe high winds," Many of the rooves have had slates and tiles blown away"

Too right prices went up sylvia it to me was one of the biggest cons of my lifetime, the other being going metric. I think those of us of a certain age still convert back to old money subconsciously.

The bus that is the second slide in the show came as a shock for me, the man on the upper deck looking at, presumably the cameraman is my dad!!!!! I did at the time I first saw it email Mark Norton and he sent me the original picture that he had scanned from a slide which had much better definition.

Frank Moss eventually left and opened up a newsagents on the quay in Looe.He used to be in the shop in the morning and early evening and his wife did afternoons whilst Frank was golfing at Looe Bin Down golf course.

Its a regional BBC1 programme John70 called "Inside Out", and broadcast from BBC Midlands, so it's worth checking out if sky 979 will give you the correct programme.

Quick edit Dek, senior moment :redface::redface: