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As per my edit to my original post - It's not at Corby -it's near Cheltenham - Here it is on Google Streetview. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9730866,-1.9928127,3a,75y,16.7h,88.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIaBDmIHBjrwohngc6gHNmA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu

I found a copy of the original postcard on Google - "Birmingham" is listed opposite the photographer's name - So I think it refers to the photographer being in Birmingham, rather than the Church!

Very Strange! - A google image match came up with a "Christchurch" at Gretton, which is over near Corby... It certainly looks the same... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_Church,_Gretton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1540784.jpg Edit! - Sorry its not the Gretton near Corby - Its the...

Cheers Ian, My Grandad, Walter Gilbert was in the 9th Warwicks - Joined up in early 1915 and was one of the few taken prisoner by the Turks at Baku. I will certainly try to attend.

I love the section in the Peter Sellers' film "I'm All Right Jack" where the Time and Motion man, played by John Le Mesurier, secretly times Ian Carmichael's character working on the forklift truck.

The whole "Time and Motion Study" industry. Most big factories would have a Time and Motion Study department for working out piecework rates, in constant "negotiation" ( really shouting matches) with the unions. There would usually be the Time and Motion experts themselves who "rated" jobs and...

You're just the calibre of worker we're looking for.

A Labour demonstration outside the Municipal Bank, in support of the Municipal Bank idea would be perfectly reasonable. In the 1920s the Labour Party was campaigning for the idea behind Birmingham's Municipal Bank to be extended to other towns and cities...

I don't think it is a Birmingham factory. The latticework visible looks like the wing of an aircraft of geodetic construction, probably a Vickers Wellington since the earlier Wellesley had long gone out of production by 1940. The wing and fuselage of the Wellington were covered by fabric...

Mentioning the Billesley Common Airshow of 1973 to an old Schoolfriend he sent me some scans of slides he took at the time... (Cheers Paul) Spitfire (Mk 9 ?) Harrier Harrier

The "airfield" was never more than just that - a big field that aircraft took off and landed in. Looking at the 1905 OS map, it's by far the biggest field in the area, so a natural place to fly those early aircraft from. Although marked for use as an emergency landing field during WW1, this did...

This website confirms the location - On the other side of the Yardley Wood Road from Billesley Common. https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/billesley-kings-heath-yardley-wood-road/

Looking at the O/S map for 1905, my guess would be that the original "Airfield" would not have been on the site of the Modern Billesley Common. Billesley Farm was about where the present Billesley Primary school is - and the biggest field was to the south of it - So that original flying field...

I well remember the Billesley Common airshow in 1973. - The Red Arrows were flying Folland Gnats at that time and the display was superb. I've seen them many times since but nothing has come close to that display in 1973. The Harrier landing and taking off was equally impressive. I joined the...

Fascinating - Thanks Mikejee. I really appreciate that. The ramp is still there, I often wondered what it was used for. It is now used by the young scallywags from Druids Heath for their monkey bikes. The site is littered with the detritus of beer cans and drug-taking and you often can't get up...

Maybe, - I had them down as football pitches - The big AA gun site in the area was just the other side of the Maypole at "Kings Wood" - Moundsley Farm , in the triangle of land between Crabmill Lane and Druids Lane. The same photo mosaic shows that site clearly. It had 4 of the big 3.7 AA guns...

Factory in this area (highlighted) on an aerial photograph taken in 1945. - As you say, now occupied by new housing on a cul-de-sac called Mortimers Close.

This just popped up on the BBC website - A database of Munitions Workers - Seems to imply it covers workers in both WW1 and WW2. Might be of help if you draw a blank elsewhere.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-68061202

Hi - You say he served in the 15/Royal Warwickshire - By that do you mean the 15th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshires? - If so, there must be some mix-up because the 15th Bn wasn't raised until September of 1914 at the start of WW1. Is it possible that he re-enlisted at the start of WW1. ?

Would it make more sense if the poem was set in Oxford where he went to University? - If you walk west out of the city there, you come to a railway arch and then almost straight away to the River Thames, (all within hearing distance of the city church bells) - Along the Botley Road which goes to...