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Hi Tim Ronnie Barber is still here & lives over Kings Heat way. He still looks good as well!!! I remember the big freeze of 47 as my Dad was in hospital & he was discharged but had to brought home by Ambulance, he worked on the Railway & when his mates came to visit him thye bought him bags of...

Hi Tim Jones transport guys were big customers of Moms & there was also a Phil Harding who had a TV repair place in an office above Charlie Sims Garage. Phil Smith was a big fishing buddy of Jack Mills & Bert Griffiths who had the little second hand shop in what appeared to be an old garage, I...

Hi Tim Number 28 was next door to Parts & we used to have our family Xmas dinner in the factory & it was a great place for us kids to play in, of course we never realised the implications of the coffins!! The lady who lived in the yard was Ada Cleaver & she worked for mom in the cafe for a few...

A majestic Footballer but he was one of several that United were allowed to sign after Munich. He was a great footballer & it was surprise that Villa let him go. Even as a Bluenose I appreciated him.

Hi Josie He died on 29-9-15 his grave reference is IV.G.3 & he is buried at Etaples Military Cemetry which is about 27km from Boulogne. If you google Etaples Military cemetry you can find pictures of the cemetry. He did not have his middle name on his stone but that is not unusual. I hope this...

try the CWGC site as this is for all soldiers killed in the wars, if you know his full name you can put it in & you will probably get more info. What was his surname & initials & I will have a look if you like. I have just come back from a trip to the Somme & Ypres which was very good & I learnt...

I was there on the day they moved the loco in & the driver of the lorry did it in one which was ano mean feat when you consider the width on the road at the Old Science Museum. I went down a lunchtime to see it & it was done by the time I had to go back to work!!

I well remember both the Leather shop & the Horsemeat butchers, I used to get my haircut & if I am right it had a double name to it. I dread to think how the modern traffic would cope if the road hadn't been straightened out.

George Edwards had a newsagents in Baldwins Lane & then on Cranmore boulevard, Trevor Smith ran the Fox pub in Tamworth.

Re: Alex Hooprers DanceHall. Stratford Road Sparkhill No Bob it was closer to the Mermaid but on the opposite side of the road about 75/100yards up.

Used to be the "local" for a lot of people who worked at Linreads & we always drank there after working Saturda mornins & then going off to play for Linreads. A couple called Jim & Mary ran it & Jim had an old Taxi, lovely people lovely memories.

A nice reply from the BBC but the fact remains that Carl is a great Brummie & if he has decided he needs a rest then so be it, he has worked tirelessly on behalf of all Brummies, I for one will miss him but if the door is still open in 6 months maybe we will hear him again on WM. It doesn't...

It was a B17 that flew down from Cosford over Aldridge & Sutton before going back to Duxford Cambridgeshire, it was refused a low fly down the runway at Birmingham as was the Vulcan Bomber, I don't think there are now any flying DC3s at Coventry so this one probably came from South Weald. A...

When I started playing in the B'ham Works league there were 18 divisions in it plus the youth division which consisted of apprentice teams so there could have been about 250 different teams all from factories in Birmingham.

Bob there was a similar cafe close to the Waverely Road school where we got the same thing but one of the guys used to get free dinner tickets at school & sell them, he would then go to the cafe it was called Jills & buy 5 fat dips & go & eat them sitting trainspotting on the bridge by Small...

The Boys school at KEGS moved out & the first & second years from Waverley Grammar school moved in, I was there for one year & then moved back to the Small Heath school in Waverley Rd.

Hi mike are you able to scan & post the article from Backtrack please.

Front row left is not Garvey but Trevor Garey. Cheers

Good news the water has receded & the river is below bank level so the river path is accessible & the woodland areas are walkable with boots or wellies, I didn't sink in at all in the woods & I am quite a big bloke. lots & lots of visitors & from today the car park prices are lower at £1.50 per...

Hi I have a friend in Australia who is related to the Derringtons who lived in the Manor House, his cousin visited & stayed there during the war when he was on his Armed service, if you can contact me privately but would like the photos to send to him & he I am sure will send you what he has. I...