Search results

I resently did a scan of Warstone Catacombs to produce a 3D Render and Flythrough. Looks quite good full screen

Who are the other kids Viv?

Its not by any change the cooling fan full of dust and fluff is it? If not it maybe a hard Drive on the way out. Take a look at the fan first and if not ill point you to a disk checking utility

We have a GoosemoorLane Area War-Damage Map from the History of Goosemore Lane website: https://www.goosemoor-lane.com/history.htm A super website well worth a look

One I had not heard in birmingham but I heard a Yorkshire word for head the other day; your ‘Polly’. It’s one of those words that you can track back for many hundreds of years. Poll originally meant ‘cut someone’s hair’. Pollard an ‘animal with its horns removed or a ‘tree with its top...

I am so glad you two have a sense of humour

As a kid I too joined the Chipper Club, run by Uncle Len. It seemed good idea on the surface; all my school pals were members. Then when I got the conformation through the post and read the Chipper Club rules about doing homework, being good at school, obeying parents and teachers, going to...

The fountain head is curious, possible an upstairs sink or wash basin. Looks like a waste pipe going into it. In fact, is that a bend at the front or another fountain head with a bath waste? The windows have a couple of possibilities, a staircase or looking at the sloping grown the house was...

I recall one of his riding partners was a guy called Wacker Westwood, if that ring a bell?

Hi Andy and welcome to Birmingham History Forum. I remember Hank’s Motorcycles quite well; it was my local shop for motorbike bits. I also remember your mom Beryl who served in the shop, she certainly knew her bikes and mechanics well. Was it Roy and Fred who had the sidecar outfit? Iv seen...

That’s a blast from the past, the white enamel “Billy” can. They were found everywhere, factory’s, steam loco drivers cabs and building sites. I had one as an apprentice and quickly learned the knack of flicking it over my wrist to stir the tea. One guy I knew was giving his can a good spin when...

That looks like an allotment site to me

I remember the Harris family, all of them including mom had bright red hair. David was my age; I used to hang around with him so Tony would have been more your age. Think there was a daughter too.

It looks like the image is from a newspaper article about Heathfield, Bromborough Maternity hospital in Cheshire. My vague recollection of our Heath Field Road hospital was as a rendered Georgian style building

I recognised you immediately Martin. There is quite a striking family resemblance between you, your brothers and dad.

Hi Brian and welcome to BHF. We are always interested in hearing about the Birmingham based engineering enterprises. Tangye did have a worldwide reputation of excellent engineering. I once found a Tangye gas engine on the Greek Island of Santorini

I used to like watching the man on a bike with a ladder on one shoulder and the two panier bags full of replacement gas mantles.

They did not try to insert heated rods; they put them in place then heated with blowlamps or small coke braziers hanging from wires before tightening the nuts. The aim being just to put some tension in the rods but not over stress the building structure.

Absolutly, The Crucial tool will identify the correect compatible memory

The Microsoft Edge computers are like that, no additional memory or hard drives and eveything is solderd in.