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I don't know what the occasion was but everyone seems to be dressed up in this picture taken outside the Magnet Club, from the 1920s?

Yes, our house was the second one from the stonemasons with the white front. I would say that was early 60s but there is little to go on and my brother reckons it could be 50s. Surprisingly enough for a girl from Birmingham, the next door neighbour's daughter married a lighthouse keeper.

I used to live at 213 opposite the refuse destructor, the house was demolished along with the stonemasons to make way for the M6. My father had an allotment and I remember him taking me to see the pigs on one of the plots. I also gained a life long fear of dogs after being bitten by one in the...

Hi Pedrocut - do you know from where this photograph was taken, looks like from the back bedroom of a house on Brookvale Road?

I'm pleased that the photos were of some interest, here's a few more. I can only assume 'D' is of a mobile searchlight built during the war. The others are of a foreign (Russian?) delegation probably early 1950s to the Engineering Machining Division? with 'B' showing them admiring a Magnet Wheel...

A wartime photo of the night shift and a few other pics from around the same time

I think when the cricket club packed up some of the pads/balls/bats etc were given to the orphanage at the Beggar's Bush, New Oscott which is now a Tesco supermarket. I was about ten years old at the time and on their way my father, who worked at Witton from when he left school just before the...

Attached is a map of the GEC site for visitors to the Family Day in 1951 including where to see the High Voltage Demonstrations.