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I remember the wings and fuselages coming along the Coventry Rd (A45) on there way to the Elmdon (Bickenhill factory), transported on low wheel based lorries nicknamed "Queen Mary`s", my memory could be poor. Len.

They were different schools & Garrison Lane School is now a community centre. Len.

The Matchmaker changed its name to the Boars Head then it was used as The Meadway British Legion now demolished, site now occupied by Kwik Fit, that is my memory right or wrong!!!. Len.

Don`t know if this link has been posted before, but great recipes. Len. https://www.greatlittleideas.com/theme/125/family-meal/

julie anderton, Kynochs & IMI factories come to mind. Len.

This book tells a lot about the Colosuss Computer project, the authors worked on the project. Len. POST OFFICE/BRITISH TELECOM FACTORIES - 1870 - 1994 by Messrs K. Govier, D. Proctor, J. Spanton & C. Reynolds. - Priced at £7.00 plus £1.95 P&P from YPD-Books, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe...

I and my pals worked i the Garrison Lane factory circa 1943, i left in late 1946, did your Dad work there? because if he worked at the Fordrough Lane factory there were about 1,000+ workers and some sections would not know some workers from the next section, do you know what your Dad`s job was...

familysearch, Link to Bletchley Park home of Colosuss. Len.https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

familysearch, I signed the Official Secrets Act, not that i or any of mates could tell any one Secrets because we were told the items we made were for walkie talkie radios & we kids believed what we were told, talk about naive or did not think they would lie to us, those of us who are still...

familysearch, Link to video of the rebuilt Colosuss at Bletchley Park were the Enigma code was cracked. Len. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WXNPn1QKo

Photo No 2 of Colosuss being built for exhibition. Len.

familysearch, Type in search "Garrison Lane". I posted this on the thread, Quote: We did all kinds of engineering work, press work, lathe work, milling, assembly work, the men worked on electric fittings, i was 14yrs old at the time, friends i remember Bill Lees, Ron Green, Jimmy Lewis, Des...

This is a rack for use on Colossus made by workers of the Enigma site for exhibition, i worked on making these when i started work age 14yrs circa 1943 at Garrison Lane, Post Office Factory, John Bingham was the rack shop Foreman. Len.

Ann Peace, If you signed up before conscription in WW1 you could choose the regiment you wanted to join. Len.

Chris Baker, It is Bubrooke Barracks, my N/S Basic service was served there in 1947 in the wooden huts added in WW2 & made it very big camp, if you were charged & confined to barracks you had to be at the original brick built barracks to parade when reviele was played by the bugler no matter...

Sorry to all forum members i got it wrong, M40 is 20 yrs old. Len.:redface::redface::redface:

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David, My only connection to the Bromford/Tyburn Rd area was my Dad working at the Valor company as a Skilled Sheetmetal Worker, it was circa 1939/ 1943 i was 11yrs to 14yrs young taking his dinner to him which would be stew in a crock basin and a cloth tied over the top and i would travel on...

1924 Brooklands May Race Brooklands race meeting held on the 17th May 1924. Finishing test of the 1,000 mile trial. Those who completed the 1,000 mile trial were the Drivers listed below. Posted by Len...