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Frothblower...Further to the Gun Battery in Spring Lane (Shipley's Fields). Their is a picture of the wooden huts somewhere on the Birmingham History Forum showing some of the families 'billeted' in them... my older brother remembers better than me (born 1941) and says that the 'residents'...

Hello Michael. I can only give details as told to me by my Father who worked (reserved occ.) in the Patternshop. I remember him telling me about the bomb that landed close to the patternshop/machineshop and brought huge shards of glass down from the glass roof and the men were sheltering under...

I believe that the Hercules Cycles Factory occupied the former premises of Dunlop at Manor Mills Aston Cross... going back a bit I know! The Fort Dunlop site in Erdington began operations around 1917 so it follows that must have been around the time that Dunlop Aston ceased operations. Ian

Hi Frederick.. You may know one of the Apprentice Patternmaker... surname Morris his Father was a Patternmaker with me at Fort Dunlop

Yes.. it is now but it was first built as the National School. I think it is now St Barnabas School. I lived in Kingsbury Rd so it basically fell within my 'play area'. As did 'Darlingtons' and the old Doctors House demolished to make way for the Mobile Station. Ian

I know that war time they produced/assembled Spitfires which were pushed across Chester Rd ont the Castle Bromwich Aerodrome (Cast Vale) for their test flights. As their later name suggests they were involved in 'pressing steel' i.e. pressed car/truck bodies, which is why it became a Jaguar Body...

I worked in the Pattern Shop at Fort Dunlop and I recall a Brian Preece Ian

I can tell you that my familly worked at both Dunlop Aston Cross and also Fort Dunlop Erdington... Harry Burr and Henry Burr were both Managers in the Mill (at different times)

My recollection was that the site of the gun battery was to the north edge (perhaps backing on to Berkswell Rd) of the Spring Lane playing fields and that the school (National School ? ) was built upon the site of huts used by Italian prisoners of war. But hey.. I wasn't born till 1953 so what...

Re: CRY FOR HELP They were called Rubber Mill's !!

I learnt to drive on the runways.. My Father worked for Dunlop and had access to the site. Ian

I believe these huts were for the Italian prisoners of war billeted in Spring Lane which later became accomodation for families who had little left after the war... I believe the National School was eventually built on the site.

Re: Pics and Park They also ran down the other side of the park.. Eachelhurst Rd, from the Bagot to the 'terminus' (by the Saab garage) which was the start of Sutton Coldfield... not part of Birmingham at that time..

Remember the Pop In in York Rd and the griddle Inn on the High St?

Re: Paget Rd I went to Birches Green and Paget with Paul. I also remember him falling out of a tree and breaking his arm!!