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There is a story I was told that women wore headscarves at work because of line shaft accidents. I did recall in the early 60’s seeing a factory where my grandmother worked with all that line shafting still in use

I found school diner to be variable. My first school had a kitchen, but the food was tended to revolve around cabbage, carrots and sweed. Not much meat, very few chips and a lot of veg. My next school had food bought in in alloy insulated containers, it was quite dire and seems like it came...

I used to like blancmange as a set custard dessert

I have and had a bumper crop

Most certainly the unforgettable chocolate concrete, not my favourite. I liked the cornflake tart and rice pudding. They also did what we called frog spawn, was it tapioca?

That is sad news indeed. He was a very talented and prolific artist who painted numerous scenes in and around Birmingham. He would often paint the same location at different times, leaving us with a superb record of places and their social and seasonal changes. We are fortunate that Eric's...

yes of course, that row of lettering is the give away

I think you have nailed it

The Pegasus horse was the logo for Mobilgas or the Mobil Oil Corporation

That did cross my mine too. When you consider that Gas Street to Worcester and the Severn is I think about 52 locks lower, the technical challenges would have been significant.

Done

That one has been doing the rounds for sometime now, but it catches people out, so think you for sharing it. You can always agree a secret word between family mebers that only they know to validate messages like this.

I understand thats what happend, the account got closed and images deleted

It is indeed. It been bashed down and rebuilt a few times by lorries hitting the narrow parapet, I think they built up the kerbs to stop lorries and put a weight limit on to too.

I suspect Phil was one of the Photobucket or Flicker users where you posted a link to embed the photo, so it shows the image seamlessly. Unfortunately, Photobucket change the game and started asking for a subscription and disabled the links unless people paid up.

Thank you Richard, if I say so myself, the Pardoe’s were a fascinating family

Yes, that's definitely possible. I have the professional software needed to extract the images from the PDF files directly, which will preserve the best possible quality. Once extracted, we can work as a team to categorize them by area and timeframe before posting them here. As a first step...

It should be possible to extract the individual images form the PGF files and to post them on here. Do you know how each of the PDF file area arranged, i.e. grouped by place or road etc?

Hi and Welcome to Birmingham History Forum. The yard your referring to was Pardoes Yard on St Marys Walk and St Margrets Road, Ward End. The yard belonged to my Great Grandfather Herbert and wife Martha and he would convert old buses for family to live in. Lots of Gypsy family’s lived in...

Here you go Lyn, is it your mom?