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Hi Baz, Well it was that simple, mystery solved, thank you for that one, cheers.

A foot note which may be of interest, just this week i was at hob moor ambulance station and it appears through the efforts of some ex ambulance men and the service thinking about heritage a lottery fund has been acquired and a round up of old vehicles is taking place to form a collection to be...

Brilliant, just love it, By chance i drove past just as they were about to take this photo. I work out of Good hope hospital with West midlands ambulance service and pass this island daily. The hats and England shirts and even Easter bonnets always raise a smile with us and our patients too ...

Hi Bernie, She is a beauty ,thank you for that, i will enjoy perusing the info, Cheers !

My father, George Ernest Thompson joined the RAF in about 1936, he always maintained that he did so to see the world at the governments expense ! I know that he was trained on aero engines , Bristol Mercury and Rolls royce Kestrels at Henlow and ended up with a posting to Shaibah in Iraq...

Hello everybody, First i love this site and reading your posts, i have learnt so much, thank you all. I have collected millitary and wartime memorbillia for some years now and i wonder if any of you old soldiers can tell me, what purpose did the cord that is stitched in to the seam...

Try the local councillor, we did and he helped a lot. If the inscription is wrong then it should be put right.

Hi Colin, yes this is our man, thank you for doing that , i did not realise this was possible ? Cheers, Eric.

Nine years ago, i was doing my best to help my daughter with her history project for school. I suggested that local history was a good place to start. I had not moved in to the area very long before so knew little myself, however a keen nose for history helped ! I realised very quickly that the...