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I remember standing waiting on Platform 6, feeling the train approaching through my feet, as the platform slabs vibrated. We were on our way to Weston Super Mare.

On our way back from swimming lesson at Monument Road, municiple baths, I saw a large, rather heavy Father Hugh Montgomery, on his bicycle grinding up the hill from King Edwards Road to St. Peters Church, with the Solex adapted bicycle , the brim of the hat flipped up and the black gaberdine...

Wasn't there a French engine mounted over the front wheel called a Solex?

I began my working life as a go for in an advertising agency at 16. The agency hadt he BSA and Vincent motorbike accounts. Quality in colour photographic prints lerft much to be desired. So the agency had a lovely old man, I think in his seventy's, to air brush colour onto a Black and white...

I think it is good for Birmingham. When I left England to work in Sweden, I was amaze my appartmemt had double and even triple glazing. No more steamed up windows. Our contact however tenuous with Europe is good for us. Brexit I think was a disaster. Headlines on newspaper stands " Fog in the...

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My mistake, sorry, I thought it was Alan Hunt, who I think was born in Aston. Just aged confusion on my part.

it doesn't seem fair or right.

Yes thank you. What did the "walker" signify?

There was an Australian speedway rider in the 50's who seemed to win every race. He was in the home side at Perry Barr, can anyone remember his name? Alan ??

Isn't it amazing if London wants a fast train to the continent Eurostar! But if Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, etc etc want the same, what a kerfuffle.

It was fine for London to have access to Europe with a fast train ( Eurostar ) But if Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and all cities north want a connection, what a kerfuffle.

In between metal and digital that we now use on computers, there was photosetting whereby the type/letter was printed as an image on a photographic paper. the negative image of a type face, and you could pretty much any type face, was held by the Bethold Press in Germany. After 1980 typefaces...

Just above Reeve and Stedeford was an extension of the City of Birmingham School of Arts and Craft, the Graphic Design and Illustration Dept.

Waiting for the number 10 on a cold night

On a frozen day, we had a slide that finished in the drain.

I remember Randolf Turpin visiting our street in a very flash American car.

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