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The above aerial photo & looks impressive when colour is added

Claverdon to Langley is one of our favourite walks in the spring. These are photos of Claverdon church

1950's Somerville Road school song/hymn (and I think of a few other schools too?) When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old, He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand, For God and for valour he rode through the land. No charger...

This is my attempt Pete

A few more...

Green Lane baths (and bank!)

A few more Green Lane photos - Green lane library

A walk along Green Lane in 4 slides (some old photos and some new to complete the picture) -

My internet service provider "VirgIInmedia-O2" (sic) informs me that my service has now been blocked because I haven't contacted them, despite being warned many times!! . Therefore, please ignore this post since I am unable to send it. With regards to most phone scams coming from abroad, I was...

Mr Grandfather worked at R C Gibbons & Co foundry in Ladywood in 1921. Does anyone out there have any information on this company please?

I think that these pages would also be of interest https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-s/stirchley/ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Stirchley,_Birmingham

A few old photos of Pershore Road - some have been posted before.

Girling, Kings Road Tyseley 1940's/50's?

In addition to Wellingborough, Beans and Coventry (Morris Engines), cylinder blocks and heads were supplied by West Yorkshire foundry in Leeds. In the 1970's and 1980's, I worked for the company that supplied the different coloured block and head paints for all of these sites.

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!890/1906/1913 maps 1892/3 and 1893/4 teams

Some further back-ground information about Tranter's yard etc - I lived at 148 Grange Road (bottom of Bertram road on the map) in the late 1950's and early 1960's and I used to fetch coal in my brother's dilapidated pram every Saturday (except in high summer) from Tranter's yard. The yard was...

It's true that the lamposts on the Nelson photo do not match those on the submitted photo. However, the Nelson photo was an earlier photo (1951). If you consider the photo (number 1) that Lyn submitted on #131, this was taken from exactly the same position as the Nelson photo but looking in the...

Here's a photo of The Nelson pub in Grange road/Baker street in 1951. On the far Left hand side of the photo, you can just make out the entrance to the bag factory. Bertram road is about 50 yards further on. I lived opposite Bertram road in the 1950's. The old gas lamps were still evident in 1951.