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Started my apprenticeship in 1958 £2.12.6p a week. Spent time in HME, Heald and drawing office during my 5 years. Used to run the monthly cinema club and also did the stage lighting for the shows that we had. Remember maintenance guy, Johnny Ray getting killed working on one of the overhead...

Hi Danny, my mistake but yes, I can recognise you now. I think we were in different stages of our apprenticeships. I started my five years in 1958, I don't think we ever worked together but I can definitely remember you. I see a good few familiar faces in the photo but can't put names to them...

Brilliant, can see many familiar faces there but can't name them. That's me third row back fifth from left. I think the eighth from left in back row is Paul Moseley who joined the fire brigade a few years before I did. Which one is you Danny, I seem to remember you wore glasses but not sure...

Morning Danny, yes I remember Jeff Barraclough (RIP) still not Jonny Jacobs, maybe the photo will help. I was at Cincinnati from 1958 for my 5 years in the green overall brigade then 2 years at Biggleswade then back to B,ham.

Danny, my name is John Walker, I remember Ken Austin very well. You didn't want to cross him, don't think I ever saw him smile. Jonny Jacobs doesn't ring any bells though, after all it's a long time ago. That apprenticeship was the best thing I ever did, still have a lathe and miller that I use...

Dennis, I started my apprenticeship there in 1959 in the maintenance shop. Harold Sparks was the foreman then, I remember Lou ? And Johnny Ray who was sadly killed when he got trapped in the winding gear of one of the overhead cranes. Somehow the driver had got into the crane and moved it not...

Oh Danny you have sparked some memories now. You must remember me, I bought that 250 BSA off you when you lived in Castle Bromwich. Didn't you then get a Vincent Black Shadow ?. I was apprenticed at Cincinnati too in the 50s. I also remember we all used to go to the Locarno in Brum on a Monday...

Oh boy, has this sparked up some memories. I worked there from 1958 until around 1968 serving my time as an apprentice machine tool fitter. I moved to Biggleswade for a couple of years with Heald grinders then came back to Brum. I used to run the projector in the theatre for the monthly film...

yes Sue i remember the Drapers shop too, and I think you are right Trebor, it was called Binghams, and run by two sisters maybe? The post office used to get really busy in those days. At the back of Cutts shop was a high factory wall, but for the life of me cant think what they made or even...

Yes Sue we remember Mrs Cutts shop, she had a son called Peter. One memory is of her asking me [a teenager] to thread her needles, now i have the same trouble myself, i appreciate why she was asking...... I dont remember anyone else working in the shop thought. She used to be quiet stern i...

Just remembered something else, Mr Roberts the music teacher, 7ft tall or seemed like it. he would wait till the end of assembly to tell us what crap singers we were, then had us for the next half hour singing our lungs out. I remember nearly all the staff were Welsh, don't know why.

I was one of many who were taken on coaches from Shard End to Paget Road in the early 1950's as Shard End was a new estate then with no schools. I remember an instance one afternoon, we were all on the coach waiting to leave and Mr Edwards walked past with his young lady. You can imagine all the...

thanks for the reply Ann, as you say, different times. We live just outside Ilminster between Taunton and Yeovil now. Love it to bits here, don't think we'll be moving back. The Birmingham site is brilliant, great memories. Happy Christmas and new year..........John

Hi Anne, my grandfather also lived in Cromwell St. His name was George Haddon, not sure of the number but I remember if we walked up from our house in Weston St. and turned left at the top it just on the left in Cromwell st. He died around 1946/9 I believe. I have lived in Nechells...