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Sorry Wendy but when I last changed my computer the guy who was supposed to back up everything managed to lose some of the folders which held my photos. :upset:

Hi Big Gee, they certainly manufactured furnaces. I think it must be the same as you mention because they became part of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd (A.E.I.) in 1954 who then merged with G.E.C. in 1967 in a £120 million deal.

I posted on the "Starting work at 14" thread about my uncle's first job in 1942 was at the Birlec on Tyburn Rd near the junction with Bromford Lane. In one of his diaries he's written about the people he worked with. Not sure how old he was when this was written, probably late teens/early...

Great pictures Graham, thanks.

I remember one occasion in Hawkins when Roy Wood (Wizzard etc) walked in with his trademark hair and beard wearing T Bar strappy shoes like those little girls used to wear. He came across a nice approachable bloke but I kept looking at those shoes!

Seconded. Cheers Jim.

I'm going through my Uncle's paperwork (he recently died) and he kept some great records of life events. He left Ryland Road School in Erdington in 1942 aged 14. He went to work at B.E.F Ltd (Birlec) which was a few hundred yards away from where he lived in Bromford Lane. He was an apprentice...

Thanks Bernie and Sue. Thanks Lyn for the PM.

Thanks Jennyann for your good wishes. We've been in touch with both the Co-Op and Freda (left message) so waiting for the outcome. Yes I'd rather pay to have the grave opened and place his ashes inside if poss. Just heard from the coroner that we have to formally identify my uncle as the Police...

Thanks geehigh and Frothy fo the latest pics. I'm going to talk to Freda, the vicar, to see about the possibility of opening my grandparents' grave as my uncle died just before Christmas and he always wanted to be with his Mom and Dad. I think a burial's not on but I could place his ashes in...

When we lived in Tyburn Road our doctor was a Dr Pilgrim. He worked from a house a few doors away towards the junction with Bromford Lane. His ethnicity was Afro Caribbean. Is this the same one? I remember him as a very nice man, except on one occasion when I fell off a horse on to cobbles and...

As I was in Birmingham today I went to the Church assuming it was now open to the public having seen the Mail's pictures of Sunday's service. It's not! Still, I could see from standing in the High Street that my Nan and Grandad's grave was still untouched so I went around to the Church Rd...

Cheers for that!

As many others have said, Lyn deserves a massive pat on the back for organising, once again, a great meet. I really enjoyed it all despite leaving early for another roller-coaster ride down St Andrews!

Hi Jph15178, it would be great if your Dad had any photos, particularly of the inside. Oh happy days!

Lyn, just been giving my sleigh a run out before Saturday! As you can see, I'm coming up Digbeth going towards St Martins.

Replacement image. Here's a super drawing of the Old Shambles in the Bull Ring. Don't think I've ever seen it on our forum.

Here are the pics I posted at the beginning of this thread.

I can see now where you get your temper from Lyn! Won't be getting on the wrong side of you now.

Resurecting my earlier post, plus I've found 2 more. They were all taken in our back garden in Bromford Lane. Can't remember the make, a Humber maybe?