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Tap Wrench/Clamp made by me in the the metalwork school at Fordrough Lane 14/15yrs old, used for British Association 0/BA to 8/BA size taps, we Junior Fitters had to attend 2 mornings each week we also made a thread die holder, small set square & a vee block, i night a week we were given 2...

Hi Stan, Fred Dorrington was his name & he was working at the Garrison Lane factory when i started in 1943 at 14yrs old, he worked on the telephone cable adjusters which tensioned the cable between the telephone pole & the house, office, factory etc it had a quick release so the Linesman could...

The Barrel Inn, Watery Lane. Len.

Eagle & Tun. #2. Len.

The Eagle & Tun, had halfpint or two in this pub with an Irish Gentlman who you knew from when you were born, Pam Cheers Len.

Removing Ack Ack Gun barrels to be taken for re furbishment at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham, the Lorries had cranes fitted but they were to big to go through the gate of the Gun compound so we laid old railway sleepers down to make a "road" & covered them in grease and pulled the Gun...

virusman, What is its address Please, road ,estate etc. Len.

Mike, The answer is yes, and they were very slippy when wet. Len.

Hay Mills Bridge over the River Cole was paved with these tarred wooden blocks and were forced up when the river was in flood they were still there post WW2. Len.

The Coach & Horses, Coventry Rd, Sheldon, where the Small Heath Harriers moved to, note the price of a gallon of petrol!, photo circa 1937-9?. Len.

The start of Small Heath Harriers Link. Len. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntz_Street

The "Posh" Onions pronouced their name "O-Ni-ons". Len.

Yes, The Mighty Maglev re-appears it does moving around my computer in my collection of photos!!!. Len. :D:D:D

I remember the street photographers they would set their camera tripods up on the pavement, focus on a position to get the best photo of people walking along, clamped it in position and the photos were shot & hopefully bought by the people on the photo. Len.

cookie273uk, I don`t think they had read the instruction manual. Len

Arkrite, I think you will find this interesting. Len. https://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/war/shelters.htm

Arkrite,The government gave out anderson shelters free to people who earned below £5 per week. By September 1939 one and a half million Anderson shelters had been put up in gardens. Len.

Arkrite, They were in residential areas because many houses did not have Anderson shelters in there back gardens pic is of Anderson Shelter. Len

Definately the entrance to a filled in public underground air raid shelter, saw many being dug the roof was approximatley 9ins thick, pic is of an underground shelter being constructed outside the Municipal Bank, 1940, at the Yew Tree, the Bank is still there, now Lloyds. Len. (text on pic-...

Link to the BSA factory bombing by a survivor, Frank Hiley. Len. https://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a2116432.shtml