Search results

1st car, bought before i had a license, and taught to drive by a friend, on a bombsite somewhere, was a red MGA softop ULK 21. Kept it in a neighbours garage for 12 months while took driving lessons and passed test in Sept 1969. Kept for 5 or 6 years then sold it for £50 to a work colleagu who...

How great is that? Never been to OZ but have a few acquaintances on Kangaroo Island and another place, the name of which i cant remember!( age)! Glad you're happy. I remember Sheldon. The Mackadown, played there many times in various groups. Went Sir Wilfrid Martineau and cycled up the Meadway...

More confirmation of it being a small world! Stayed in Franklin a couple of times when visiting Nashville, Grand 'Ole Opry etc. Good friends in Memphis and Holly Springs MS

Pedrocut, i lived Germany for a couple of years in the 1960's and became fairly fluent in spoken and written German. I can still get by. However, i have been in Thailand for 2years and have not made much progress! It is vastly more complicated, with a baffling written alphabet, tonal inflexions...

Wow! A real global spread there! I have enjoyed traveling all my life. Especially like the Southern States of USA, but Thailand sort of jumped out at the right time so here we are.

Small world! I have 2 brothers and 1 sister all moved to Padstow/ Treyarnon area many years ago.

Thanks Eric. Many Happy memories of Cinderford and St Briavels/ Tintern area.

I ' m fairly new to the forum and find it fascinating. I've noticed that there seem to be a lot of Ex Pat members, so i assume that the fond memories of Brum persist in all of us who live elsewhere. Where are you? Why did you settle there? Parents? Work? Fond Holiday memories? Sunshine? Pal of...

I think a blank tray is a perforated sheet which accepts rifle cartridges held in position for loading with primer powder wad etc, but witjhout the lead bullet, which would be loaded and crimpedin place last. A distant memory from an old description of Eley works.

I was in the Queen Elizabeth hospital 8 or 9 yrs ago for a stent, after heart problems. Freddie Starr was in also for heart probs, but in a private room upstairs. He toured the wards cheering us up(!!), and informing us that Dr Death would be along shortly. He had a glamorous companion in tow...

That's the man! Many thanks

A long shot, but here goes. Late 50's, i had a great schoolpal who was CRAZY about buses, and maybe some enthusiast on this forum knows him? John Seale. He lived in the maisonettes nr chester rd just nr the M6 exit rd now. We lost touch some 55or more years ago but i was always convinced he...

A rice farmer friend in Tunica, mississippi, used to welcome me to go Duck and Goose hunting every year on his enormous(12,000 acre) farm. One year a helicopter was spraying for him and he asked me if i wanted to take a flight. He offered to fly it! Now my friend was in his late seventies, so i...

Great thread!, some amazing memories. In 1965 i was a drummer in a Brummy pop group playing a monthlong contract at the Rocket Club on Rhein Main airbase , Fra nkfurt Germany. All US Air Force and lots of Vietnam movements via there. Everyone was a bit crazy, and one bunch of Pilots in the club...

Anybody have any memories or stories? Did any of you work for John Blundell's in Aston, Kings Heath, or Handsworth? I wonder if you recall Dave Dudley and his wife Liz? Dave was my boss when i started work as a supervisor at Aston. I think the shop was above the old Elbow Room club, or next...

My dad Cyril Bellison served 19 years in Royal Navy, came out just after the war. Petty Officer Gunnery. HMS Birmingham, incl Murmansk Arctic convoy escorts. I managed to get him his Arctic Star for that shortly before he passed away a few years back. Served in the Pacific on HMS Speaker...

Thankyou, a pleasure. Nice to speak English for a change! Thai gives me headaches. Or maybe it's the Whisky. Interesting Forum. Well done you.

Myself and my brother had a business late 1990's/2004 adjacent to the flyover( Birmingham Blinds And Canopies ltd). We were on the left of the up ramp, out of City direction. Next door was a firm selling/ making weighing scales, and a petrol station which was demolished later for the big modern...

My earliest memories(1951, 3 years old), we lived opposite Salford Park in a terrible old house next door to a brass foundry. Tiny kitchen, about 4' square and loo in the back yard. Canal 10' from house. The coal barges used to drift down to the power station up Tyburn rd way. Me and Dad(Cyril...

Thanks!! That is the same Malcolm. Appreciate your reply