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------------------------------- It may do but the clothing doesn't look typical for 1930's

I thought this was a bit unusual, it looks Victorian/Edwardian era based on the clothing. You usually see old pics of a man with a very long cane tapping on windows to wake people up for work. Mary Smith was paid sixpence a week to shoot dried peas at sleeping workers windows, presumably at...

I remember doc Jennings, he had a car with a tennis ball on the towbar to cover up the grease, was it a Morris Minor? funny how you remember little details like that

------------------------------------------------- I don't recognise the name, sorry, one of the directors had a large house at Ilmington near Stratford and I worked there several times but never saw Mr Evans there himself as far as I can recall

I fully understand the point you made so I'm o.k with that lyn, I just thought removing my link to the BBC news etc was like bolting the door after the horse had bolted!

The shopfitting firm I worked for back in the 60/70's was in Bow St, just across Bristol St . We did all of PJ Evans maintenance inc the directors houses, we even had a Mrs Evans, one of their ex wives, working in our office

This very forum led to the downfall of the evil person I named in my above post because it was viewed by police researchers. One of his victims tried to take his own life & this led to the naming of the teacher who abused him and a search for witnesses. How many other evil doers would escape...

------------------------------------------------ The gable end of that building is intriguing as though large doors were there at one time, but then again what were those circular brickworks for? so obviously not doors. The brickwork inside the two circles is much larger, more like stone...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hated most of my time there, teachers could get away with just about any form of punishment, on my very first day it was home time and a group of kids were trying to peek through a classroom window...

The worlds largest steam locomotives ever built were the ones in the USA called 'Big Boy' anyone been on holiday over there and seen one? worlds biggest steam locomotive

I just thought it was odd that catalogues were sent to the UK from the USA

I have a vintage Stanley tool catalogue on CD, here is the inside first page which shows a London address but the bottom of the page says printed in USA, the front cover says ' STANLEY, The toolbox of America'

Here is a Rabone page showing examples of company adverts you could have printed on the tools

Thomas Smith made all kinds of Spanners from their works in Saltley

An interesting catalogue of John Rabone & Sons, Whitmore street, they did measuring equipment, spirit levels etc. The catalogue is 83 pages. Their factory was quite big, I wonder what replaced it

Here is todays image, the houses are still there in Mowbray street, , those buses were crammed in solid, maybe for scrap

Here are two of the favourite characters, Angus Lennie who played Shughie McFee and Carlos Rafael played by Anthony Morton. Angus Lennie was previously known from the war film classic 'The Great Escape' starring Steve McQueen. My wife who appeared as an extra whilst working as a dancer at the...

They spent too much money , every water that came up for rent or purchase they just outbid everybody else, then they crashed and burned. The first place on the list is Dolanog on the river Vyrnwy, we set off the first weekend it became available expecting a bit of nice dry fly fishing. We got...

The girls in the chorus were often requested by ATV studios as extras in Crossroads, usually in the bar scenes but sometimes just walking past the lead actors. When the pantomime season ended the girls would be out of work for a while, sometimes part time jobs at the theatre were offered such as...

Here's the current Google Earth view of the same area