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I think the GK block in the above picture would have been built around the 1930’s but I stand to be corrected.

.....I also still have the dice and base that we all had to make.

I also started at College road 5th September 1977. I remember the ‘5BX’ exercises very well!

I have some recollections of the ladies adjusting these units in GK3, particularly the small rectangular ones (8FL?). The units contained a thin metal leaf which they would bend and manipulate while watching a dot on an oscilloscope screen rise up then shoot across. I could never work out what...

I've done a search but can't find the answer. Forgive me if this has already been covered. Does anyone know why three of the clock faces on St Martin's church tower are the same and the fourth, facing New Street, is different and bigger?....looks too big and out of proportion. Photo's suggest...

I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of those clocks myself when the factory came down. It used to be in my garage and I had it wired up to a master lock that a friend of mine in Devon pulled out of a skip! It kept pretty good time once set up but has been sitting in my loft for many years...

During my time workling at GKS as an electrician, I spent some time working with a wonderful man named Colin Webb. Colin was responsible for maintaining all the clock systems throughout the entire site and I learnt a tremendous amount from him. Colin was immaculate in everything that he did. His...

Re: Works Engineers. A strange bread. I'm here too........worked in the WED dept at GKS as a sparky. Probably a bit later than you....I did the first bit of my apprenticeship at College Road between 1977 and 1979 then worked at GKS until around 1983. I still have my 'dice' that all apprentices...

Ah yes, we used to go with my dad to the hand car wash at the back of the Kingston in the mid 60's. Until recently you could still see the paint on the wall from the long demolished building.....might even still be there......

That's it, Beasleys!.....I used to have a paper round at another newsagents nearby ( opposite Butlers in Grange Road). Ken, the proprietor, used to send me up to Beasleys with his order of ciggies to stock up his shelves once a week.

Most police stations had clubs/bars up until the mid nineties when the then, new Chief Constable Edward Crewe closed them all down as he considered them to be anachronistic and not in keeping with the image of a modern police force. Just about the only one left in the West Midlands now that is...

I, too, used to go there for Christmas concerts from Waverley......I was also a choir boy there for a few years in the early 70's....until I discovered cigarettes, girls and motorbikes which, at the time offered a little more excitement! Father Whatmore was the 'man in charge' in those...

I was born in Newland Road, a 'U' shaped road off the Hobmoor Road end of Green Lane in 1961 and lived there until my early 20's. Back then the road was open both ends but now the 'bottom' end has been closed off. 'Our' side of the road was traditional terrace houses The houses on either end of...