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Some Drivers I've worked with have tried all the tricks in the book and that was only a few years ago. Taking fares and not issuing tickets, giving out children's tickets instead of adults and even issuing 50p dog tickets. This was in the days before cctv and satellite monitoring and only one...

I stil buy Ronson lighter fuel for cleaning oily marks off the carpets.

One of the buildings opposite the Erdington arms in the late sixties was the Bird cage Cafe, was a bit of a dive if I remember correctly.

I worked in Wainwright st end of 1970 for Claribell coaches, I also remember when they took over the building on the main road which had formed their back wall. When we looked around we found what looked like parts off bicycle wheel spokes so presumably that was what the building was previously...

One of the favourite tricks of students was to get on the bus then hand their pass through the window to one of their mates waiting outside, only noticed when I glanced through the mirror.

One of the channels my Wife often records and we watch Sunday morning when Gardners World isn't on (also recorded).

I'm sure if you're on a direct route without having to change trains at least three times then your journey could be quite enjoyable. We were going to fly Newquay to Birmingham Airport but direct flights finished end of October, alternative was something like a nine hour flight via Ireland at a...

Had to come back to a relatives funeral so chose the train rather than bother with the car, wish I'd used the car. Travelled Redruth Cornwall to Solihull which turned into a nightmare return. Didn't mind the change in Plymouth then the walk from New St to Moor st but the return left a lot to...

Already posted my previous Perry Barr birthplace but thought I'd post all my other locations. Dewsbury Grove Perry Barr, Water Orton, Cheswick Green, Ushaw Moor Durham, The Avenue Durham City, South Crescent Durham, Heald Green Manchester, Bramhall Stockport, Helsby Cheshire, Manley Cheshire...

Prestage were the main Vauxhall dealer and supplied Rylands when I worked for Ryland in the early sixties. We also bought our Bedford PSV spares from Prestage when I worked for Stockland coaches back in the sixties. Prestage were located in New John St West. When I worked for Rylands we...

One of many that had lock ins. Used to collect a passenger from there in 1967 when private hire driving, would usually be about 1am and he often had to be helped in to the car,

Cedar club, La dolce vita, cavendish, elbow room and the Belfrey though not in Birmingham. Went to them all in the late sixties.

Miss Lloyd was our class teacher. Great operatic voice and sung at the Town hall with some of our class, I was one of the lucky ones. It was a bit of a shock to find her sitting on her desk with Edge both smoking, she used a cigarette holder which seemed rather exotic at the time.

Have to agree about the swearing. I started work for a Garage in town when I was still 14 and the behaviour of the older mechanics really surprised me. Being paid 1/6d per hour, of which bus fares etc had to come out of, left you little to hand over to your Mother in the unopened pay packet.

He would have been born about 1925, I only mention this as some kind person may look in the incorrect records.

I certainly remember the Kingshurst police station. Chap in a high powered Vauxhall tried to cut me up at the Coleshill roundabout and ended up hitting my car, he chased me up the road towards bacons end trying to force me off the road. We both ended up in the foyer of Kingshurst police...

Would be interesting to know how it came to be on eBay and what happens to the person or persons who handled it in the first place.

Spent many hours waiting to collect parts from Leyland Motors Wolverhampton road, only parts dept that rarely answered their phone and you needed a packed lunch as you could be there for most of the day,

But surely the saving of children's lives is more important than pandering to the often impatient motorist. I totally agree that more parents should walk their children to school but once again the motorist is more important.