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Hi, It's been a while since I logged onto this forum, but I have a question about the Aston & Erdington AFL. I did a search on this site and a web wide search but couldn't come up with any information on the Aston & Erdington AFL. My grandfather wore a pendant on his watch chain as shown in...

I remember the name Nigel Plowman from my days at the Solihull offices, but I struggle to remember many more. On the Mains Engineers side there was Ken Christopher and Eric (Something) who were both very instrumental in my early training. They both were at the Kings Heath depot in Kings Road...

Thanks Maurice, If I can find anything about the baths, I'll start another thread. Dave

Is there a thread or topic relating to Tiverton Road baths, please? I learned to swim that those baths, as did my younger sister. My Mum used to take us on the bus to the top of Tiverton Road and we walked down to have lessons there. I remember that there were two swimming pools and changing...

After getting my 'Class B' callsign (G6VMQ) I started doing Morse lessons at evening classes in Northfield that were run by another Amateur called Brett, and I can't remember his callsign, but it would have been a G4. It will bug me until I remember... I failed the Morse test, twice, traveling...

I'm stopping at home this year. My daughter, her husband and my granddaughters live near Oxford and my Son and his wife live near Cambridge. I'm in Derbyshire. If you want to know who gets Christmas Day 1st, go to Norad Track Santa and that will tell you where he is at any time from when...

Yes, I think that the names Wharf Lane and Moat Lane were interchangeable, and If I remember correctly, the Gas Board had a bigger depot behind the MEB depot. PowerGen did inherit the old Eastern District/Southern Division offices and it was a surreal experience to walk through what had been the...

OK, so tell me if this is not on topic and I'll delete it. MEB Birmingham Area in 1978 was divided up into the Area offices (Summer Lane) and three divisional offices Birmingham Northern Division (George Road, Erdington), Eastern Division (Moat Lane, Solihull) and Southern Division (Kings Road...

I still like Marmite. :)

I spent some of my apprenticeship working at the Davenports brewery. The bottling lines were in the main entrance to the old building and the brewing happened behind that in a factory that had been built later. I can guess why they closed it down as it wasn't a very efficient place to carry...

I used to drink Snake Bites (half larger and half cider) in the Great Stone. I remember the story about them moving the stone into the Pound as well.

Just to add to the history a bit. In 1982 I took the Radio Amateurs Exam in a classroom in a building on Brasshouse Passage. Back in those days it was a two part exam, Theory and Regulations and you needed a pass in both to be able to apply for a transmitting licence. The exam was, I think...

I spent some of my apprentiship working with the permanent MEB electrician at Davenports brewery. That's where I learned what Marmite was made from.

I have started to search though my photographs and have come across a couple of the White Helmets motorcycle display team. I'll try and dig out any others I have as well.

It seems I posted as a guest on here about 10 years ago! Now I've registered I'll try and find the pictures that I said that I would try to upload, all those years ago..

Hi Chris, Thanks for the welcome, I happened across the site whilst Googling something from my youth. I don't live in Birmingham now, I left in about 1990 when I left the MEB and joined what was then a new company called PowerGen, formed from part of the CEGB. Looking at the link at the bottom...

Hi, I've been reading some of the posts and have memories of going to Hams Hall when training to become an Electrical Engineer with the MEB and then after I qualified. They had one of the first 'computer' controlled tap changers in one of the sub-stations and it sometimes went wrong and sent...

I started as a trainee Electrical Engineer in 1978 with the MEB and was based at the Summer Lane offices but did much of my training at either the Southern District, in Kings Heath, or the Eastern District, in Solihull. Very occasionally, they would send me across the city to the Northern...