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A replacement bus service has run here in Helston Cornwall since Beeching closed the branch line. It runs from Redruth to Helston and the bus stop outside Redruth station is indicated as platform No 3.

Think they were the fair that visited Perry Barr park every year. This would have been at least from the late fifties as I tried to get a job helping on the rifle range, these were the days when 22 rifles were still allowed without a firearms license.

Going off thread slightly. When I worked at Kinsbury in the late sixties we often had a lock in at the Royal Oak at the end of our late shift. We were standing at the bar one night when this Policeman in uniform walked in, having not long started visiting the pub my mates and I were pooing...

Funny story. In 1967 I visited the Training centre as I wanted to join up. Halfway through interview with the recruiting Sergeant PC comes in and asks me if I'd parked my car at the front of the building, yes I admitted. Turned out I'd parked in the Chief Constables parking space, I left with...

Worked for Tommy Baumber in Belmont passage, fortunately only for two weeks as then moved to Esso Bromford where I was a mechanic working for Tommy.

Bought them from the Cottage stores Beeches road, always asked for the semi frozen ones.

Went to School with a lad who raced name was Arthur Browning, seem to remember he was very good.

Coach company I worked for in a the sixties used to take out the fishing clubs on a Sunday. I can remember loading the boot with many crates of beer ready for the return trip home often stopping off at a pub to top up :)

Loved South Devon, we always took our children there every year for a weeks holiday. We stayed at the Torbay courts hotel in the summer of 76, our youngest was 9 months old and the eldest 2 1/2 what a great time we had. Unfortunately living in the area almost 30 years later never visited the...

We used to go to the Waterside caravan site in between Paignton and Brixham but that would have been the late fifties. We moved to Torquay a few years ago but found it too lively so moved back to Cornwall.

This photo shows exactly where we used to fish, when it rained we moved under the bridge.

Think it was probably 1959 when I remember when the canal was empty at Tower Hill. The Lock by the Cottage was covered in dead fish, Roach I think, which we had spent a couple of years trying to catch but all we ended up with was gudgeon and stone loach.

That was were we always went fishing. Great fun when a barge came along as we used to operate the locks for the bargees.

Well deserved in my opinion. Went to one of his shows few years ago, he warned us not to expect to leave early and if we did he would come around to our houses and shout jokes through the letterbox :). The show started at 7.30 pm and finished at 1.30 am with one short break, I don't think...

Pretty sure that the owners son raced at Hednesford hills, we were all extremely jealous that he had all his spare parts provided Free Of Charge.

Bit off thread but I used to go to a friends house on the back of his bike during our lunch break from Beeches road School to his house on Queslet Road, we used to cook chips and his name was Robert :). This would have been 1959/1960.

Was the mine near the jellied eel stall, seem to remember waiting for my Mother by the mine watching people eating jellied eels, yuk.

Hello Tony. I also started with SMBP in January 1969 as a Craftsman 1 in the Garage at Kingsbury, took early retirement 26 years later when based at Stanlow.

Hello tattam. I worked at Esso Bromford for app 12 months in 1968, I worked as a night shift mechanic for Tommy Baumber until moving to Shell mex & BP in 1969.

Way back in the early sixties the Garage I worked for in Ryland Street reconditioned Wolverhampton corporation transports Gardner engines, I can remember collecting the old engines and delivering the reconditioned ones back to one of the Bus Garages in Wolverhampton, maybe it was the one...