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Hurricanplanes......As far as I can remember my first dep't was the casting shop where John Kent also started. He should remember Jack brown , the heat weigher. Often he set John and me loading 56lb aluminium ingots on to the standard trailers for the furnace batch. If I remember correctly we...

hurricaneplane I know it will not help with the location of Bob Hollis , but I worked in the same office as he and remember him as a avid fan of Al Jolson. Was he the son of the foreman of the casting shop? He and I worked with Ray Amphlet in the die design office , this later becoming...

cliff2005 Just read your post. What a privileged research programme you are involved with. I have passed on Austin information to a John Baker who seems to be well into Austin memories. His email address is [email protected] I hope he is willing to advise. Admin Note: Please...

Carolina Yes it does look like a posh school!! To think that the nativity play was performed in the depths of WW2 the scenery and costumes were as good as any performances one sees in modern times. In the class photo I seem to remember the clothes we stood up in were generally our school...

I am just posting two school photos from B0urnville School, one of my class from 1947 and the other of the infants nativity play 1942.

Hi, Hurricaneplanes, I'm glad you found my rather long memory of Birmetals of interest. I presume you are Jim Harris, I am at the moment trying to recall the name. I suppose you will remember many of the people I have previously mentioned. Have you managed to gather many of the "old...

During the war toys were only things we spoke of, hence we made our own. The most simple and dramatic was the "Fire Can". This was simlply a tin can, preferably a 2lb treacle tin if possible, We smashed holes through it , attached a strong wire through two holes in the rim enableing it to be...

I remember during hard times in the war years having the following remark said about the ever frequent hole in the sock at the heel, " yove got a tatter in yower sock". In my case the grimey skin of the unwashed heel burst through the large hole in the sock exactly like a potato!! My friend was...

Vivienne14 I noticed on the thread location you lived in Bournville in your earlier days. Did you by any chance go to Bournville School?

I remember, during war years, wearing my cousines cast off short corduroy trousers, that were part of his boarding school uniform ,almost the entire time at junior school (as he did in his) When I was 17yrs, at the local youth club, I met an earlier girl class friend, who without hesitation...

pollypops What a fantastic set of photos. Thank you so much for spending time colating them for me. I used to go to Raddlebarn school and cycle round all those Selly Oak roads. Then strangely you have shown pictures of Barns Hill and California. This was part of my cycle route to Birmetals...

Yes, pollypops that is the triangle. What a superb photograph, as applies to all the others on the page I spent many days catching the Outer Cicle bus there in the early 1950s to Handsworth technical school. Perhaps your late father found that direct colour printing from film was catching up...

Have been reading with interest about the Oak pub and its surrounding area. Does anyone remember the old horse water trough situated on the triangle situated almost infront of the Oak.pub. The triangle filtered traffic into Oaktree Lane from the Bristol Rd, On this same triangle there were gents...

mikejee Thank you so much for your time on my behalf. I think in my mother's days in that area ,I am glad to imagine that it was not what I might have called a completely run down place. It appears better than some of those terrible "back to back" properties often associated with such...

astoness.............mikejee on a thread called Map Request #9 sent me a map of the area I was interested in so you could perhaps refer to that.

I have been looking through all those historic photographs of Birmingham and I wonder if anyone out there has a photo (prior to demolition) of Victoria Place Halam St Balsall Heath. My late mother lived there in the 1928 era. and I would very much appreciate the actual terrace or something...

Talking of patches on clothes, does any one remember having that iron-on material to reinforce often the seat of trousers. the patch could readily be seen but we were told it was invisible ( The Emperor's clothes)

Maggs I am the tall boy as looking at the picture on the left.

This is a photograph taken in 1947 showing my friends and I at a birthday party in our best clothes. For many of us these were our school clothes and play clothes! What was particularly nice in these days of hardship none of us cared what each wore. So different from today's children under...

Mikejee, Thank you so much for the time you have spent on my request, wonderfull. I can tell my sister now, we are both into the early life of my mother,, who through shear hard work, like so many people in those days, escaped from poverty to live a rounded life.