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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.

That looks like the council depot, It was there in the early 1950,s when I lived in Holliday St. The street cleaners were based there with their horse and carts as well as other departments. I used go and watch the men washing the horses when they were finished for the day. I remember Roy Rogers...

You would have been O.K. it was only around the corner to the old accident hospital

Communication Row started at Bath Row and ended at the junction of Holliday St. and William St. It had a 90 degree bend in it and no. 55 was the first house around that bend opposite the old peck which was on Holliday St. My friend lived next to the playground. The Tysalls and Bickerstaffs...

Eamon Andrews was on the original Crackerjack about the same era as Muffin the Mule. Mick and Montmarency, one of them was Charlie Drake.

My old school St. Thomas,s and I think Holloway Head ended at Granville St. and Bath Row began at Granville St.

Theres been some discussion on local H & Worcs. radio about body found in 1943 by some young lads in Hagley Woods, it was stuffed into a hollow wich elm tree. It has never been identified nor killer found, Various theories including german spy, prostitute amongst others. It would be interesting...

Thomas, go to the factory and offices page, there are a few posts about "the austin" as it was always called.

These pictures certainly bought some memories back, I lived in holliday street from 1944 to 1956.