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I learned to swim there around 1950 ish. The swim attendant only had one arm, that sticks in my memory.

I vaguely remember the queen and Philip in the early 50,s coming down Broad st. probably coming from K.E. school, we had a wave off Philip, made everyone happy.

In the 1960s/70s if you did someone a favour and they worked at Longbridge they often repayed you with a set of spark plugs, they were like a form of legal tender, apparently very easy to get if you worked there.

Clifford Coombes was the major shareholder in Birmingham City F.C. for quite a time, perhaps that's why ex players worked at S and U.

born in Holliday street, the ' ockerdock ' was a real blast from the past. We also called it 'under the gullet'.

It looks like a wooden gate street side of the entry which some yards had, also it looks like it's next to a factory with those steps going down from the second floor.

I heard something on the radio today about miles of canals being closed and drained because of the cost of dredging and repairing walls and tow paths.

Back in the early 1950.s, it was said to us kids to keep out of Tommy Knockers wood because it was haunted by Tommy who hung himself in the wood years before.

when I was in the army there was hundreds of verses all made up by bored squaddies and starting with "down in the jungle"". Not suitable for a respectable forum like this. I,m afraid the tears used to run down my cheeks listening to some of them.

In the 1960,s the scrap metal yard in Wharf Road in King's Norton was owned by a Kirby family, it seems to fit in with earlier posts.

I have photos of our family from the 1950,s and the clothes look a bit grubby, but I know we were kept spotlessly clean by mom. I think it's the quality of the old black and white cameras.

I notice that some of those boys may be wearing their 'Daily Mail' boots, I remember Kent Street baths, the ladies changing cubicles were upstairs overlooking the pool with a balcony all the way around the pool, if you were quick and the attendant was reading his newspaper we used to jump off...

Sorry, I had left the company in 1977, I think it was still in production then.

I,m not sure on that, the north and south had their own engine assembly lines also. Because of the layout of the site various car parts were criss crossed all around the factory depending on which model was being made and where.

I think you are right about it being Lifford Lane depot, back in the 1950,s on a sunday afternoon when no one was at work there, a few of us lads would walk along the canal and climb over into that council depot, cannablise a few scrap push bikes and make them into rideable bikes, some of those...

Hunts foundry between lifford lane and Fordhouse lane , G K N. opposite them on other side of Pershore rd. Showells Ltd. further down but up a side street, I think they made door handles and fittings.

l remember going there friday nights after the pubs shut, l think it was open all night for food and drink as well as 10 pin.

There was quite a large machine shop at east works, machining gears and crankshafts from rough castings. They were then used on the engine assembly tracks also in east works. Some engines were taken to Oxford for the Marina that was made there. I was a fork lift driver unloading the trucks that...

I think that The Brooke Tool Co. had a large sports ground at Peterbrook Road in Solhull Lodge as it was called back in the 1950,s.

A lot of that type of air raid shelter were built above ground close to public areas and up the yards of the back to back,s. They were used for years after the war as storage for anyone who needed it, or great play areas for us kids.