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My late Mother In Law worked at the Austin works . I believe she made wiring looms for aircraft. Then newly married her husband worked in a factory in the Welsh Valleys welding bomb racks. When the war finished he refused to serve in the Army on call up, despite numerous attempts to enlist...

Thank You Dave, its just amazing how BHF comes up with this stuff. To think I wasted almost a week of candlegrease without effect. Thanks again.

I am a member of the WW2talk forum and some one there is trying to find out what happened to cause the deaths of two men. The CWWG headstones state they were killed on 14/6/1943 and the ship is named as HMS Arrest. Rumour has it she was a boom defence vessel at Rosyth. I have spent almost a...

It seems everbody and their Granny at my local pub has been to Farnborough this year. I used to enjoy going but somehow I changed and the noise and spending so much time on my legs no longer drew me.

I was talking to some young people in the beer garden of my local pub. Because my town is in a rural area they all thought I had been a farm worker. I told them I had spent the last thirty years as a machinist on a lathe . Then came the question " Whats a lathe ?". So much for Britains proud...

Static exhibits, the very thing that attracted me to museums ,are now condemned by modern thinking museum curators. People have to be entertained while being educated and as it is entertainment it has to be paid for. Well thats not my way of thinking. How I would have loved to get hands on...

The following link leads to old maps, a retail site but in free to view form can give good result of OS maps late 1800s to mid 1900s.I often use it with mixed results. I find it works best on Internet Explorer using the page /image magnifiers. https://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

I am so glad the promise to rebuild the pier has been made good. Weston holds many memories for me, good times with my late mrs. I know that if she was still here arrangements to visit the new building would be well in advance. Other seaside towns have seen their peirs burn or slide into to the...

Think about it ,Flats have only one entrance ( and maybe a long drop if you are in a high rise ). I first thought of the safety angle when I looked at the houses. Does this mean that Elf & Safety is slowly creeping into our way of thinking. Having done loads of safety courses when working I...

Looking at maps of Hubert Street these were typical high density houses. I will go with Mikegee in that the small windows were front doors but not that it is one premises. Looking at Google Earth top down you can see the individual gardens have gone ,it is a communal area with walk ways, not at...

Errmm, not sure of the boundaries there. I will leave Geoff to answer that one.

Hi Astonian, the Stoke Prior we are talking about is just south of Bromsgrove. That is a fair bit North of Honeybourne ( which I know, my Sister in Law had a caravan there ). There were the remains of a large station and goods yard at Honeybourne The name Stoke Prior is pretty common, we have...

I think I may have the site of the Goods Depot cracked. Looking at Google Earth last the shape of the land of a new housing development ,Jubilee Close, drew my attention. Needing an old map that is where I went , https://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html The 1927 map clearly shows a Goods Shed, the...

Two stations each operated by a different company. The following from the Stoke Prior entry by GENUKI ". It has stations on the Bristol and Birmingham and the Worcester and Wolverhampton railways. " https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WOR/StokePrior/index.html I bet the stations and goods yard...

Hi geoff, I do not know if this is of any help There was a station at Stoke Prior on the Birmingham And Gloucester railway which closed on 1st October 1855. It became a goods depot but the station burned down on 1st April 1929. Perhaps you know the location of the old goods depot .The...

That is at the old Midland Red Garage, Friar Street , Hereford. When I started walking the beat in Hereford ,1969 that garage was on it and a regular teastop on the night shift. Midland Red were big around Herefordshire, both long distance and around the city. Local bus companies tended to be a...

My first mrs was from West Brom. and she called any large ,hairy moth a bobhowler.

Very Likely. I packed in 3 years ago to care for my late mrs. I often visited Central Stores . I worked in Heavy Machining.

My father was a member of the BAA both when he lived in Brum, his birthplace, and Hereford, where he moved with Henry Wiggin and Co which was in Wiggin Stret the home of BAA right up to his death.Quote SBSFFamilyhistory. I worked for Henry Wiggin, Holmer Road, Hereford and its different names...

I did post a scan of mother in laws School Leaving Certificate somewhere. On it states that the holder has passed all exams and is deemed capable of work having attained the age of 14 years. Has any one a copy of a SLC out there.