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I found some more info on the Redditch Royal Enfield bicycle history. The rights to the use the name were sold to a Birmingham bicycle maker called Kirk and Merifield, 113 Bradford Street. Bikes produced in Redditch had 'Royal Enfield Redditch' on the badge, those made by K&M had Birmingham...

If near surrounds includes Redditch then you should include Royal Enfield bicycles. Even after the closure of the Redditch factory, the name was perpetuated on bicycles made in Birmingham under the Royal Enfield name. PS. A Royal Enfield is where the queen keeps her Chickens :laughing:

There is a picture that comes up in a Google image search, it's posted on on flickr and taken at Calthorpe park, it has a family posing in front of the capsule so I can't post it here

It's the 1960's all over again, pull down beautiful old Victorian buildings and replace them with ugly eyesores and give the architect a medal.

As a child in the 1950's I had the Eagle comic delivered, sometime I bought the Beano or Dandy when in a shop. When I left school and started work in 1961 I used to buy American comics such as 'Creepy Worlds' Mystic tales' etc . all were one shilling. I still have a pile of them in the loft

Does anyone remember or have a photo of Poste Haste Greeting cards shop in Union Street ? I met my future wife there in 1979, she had been lead dancer at the Alexandra theatre, mostly pantomimes.

A most enjoyable thread, so many memories of this era with Cafe's & little corner shops thriving everywhere. Travelling around Brum for 18 yrs working for a shopfitting company I would have been in many of those shops & Cafe's Now all gone forever, perhaps this thread should be retitled 'The...

A came across this photo of Shufflebotham's on a facebook group, where are their white aprons?

I didn't notice my funny clip of Marty Feldman swiveling his eyes it different directions had a mild rude word so I removed it

I remember vividly going there on a school trip in the 1950's, seeing the cannon damage on the staircase etc. I remember one thing in particular which was the guide showing us around. He got us all to stand still and look at a big portrait, then asked is he looking at you? we all said yes so...

Here is an example of one of the many coins struck for the colonies, this one struck at the Birmingham mint for British North Borneo, above the date is the letter 'H' for Heatons

We also supplied coins for all over the empire from the Birmingham mint, also minting machinery.

My mum told me I shouldn't eat sweets when using the toilet, so I would sit on the toilet & take the sweet out of my mouth and when finished I would put it back in my mouth o_O

In the extremely unlikely event of me wanting to fire one again I would use powder from a firework. I could just as easily fix a piece of old gas pipe to a piece of wood and load it with powder & shot and thus have a makeshift gun with about the same level of accuracy. :eek:

I don't have or need any licenses, the law does not require owners of antique flintlock and most kinds of percussion weapons to have any kind of permit, only antique weapons that take cartridges come under the recent 2020 change of rules due to criminals making their own now obsolete ammunition...

Yes, o_O I have two ex arcade pinballs in here, the one partly visible is Demolition man with the voices of Sylvester Stallone & Wesley Snipes, I posted a pic of the Star Trek machine a while back

As an owner of several muzzle loaders myself I have fired most of them some time in the past, in the 1960's I applied for a black powder license and had a visit from a police officer. I can't remember exactly what he said but I think I would have to be a member of some club or another. Needless...

I remember a big Polio scare in the 1950's, there were 45,000 cases in the UK and hundreds died. It passed around that it could be carried in water and similar to Covid could be transmitted by coughs & sneezes. They closed the local swimming pool for a time and us kids had no swimming lessons...

I guess my Grandfather would have spent some time there, he was a foundling in 1885 but so far I've not found any info to this effect

It's the same as the Flu jab, it does not prevent you catching it or spreading it but it reduces the severity if you do get infected. I had my first jab this afternoon, the next one is in April, even after my second dose I will still be required to wear a mask in all public places. You also...