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Re: coaches When Ronnie Lees passed away Dave Watkis bought the trading name and the book(I dont think he bought any of the motors) and moved to a garage and service station on cov rd almost opposite the old bham airport, he then moved to a unit in bickenhill in the yard of what once was Geo...

The Isle Of Man and Bham and the midlands have had a long association with motorcycles the first TT started 107 yrs ago today the first 2 bikes to start were Triumph singles ridden by Jack Marshall and Frank Hulbert. The race was won by Charlie Collier on a Matchless in 4hs8m at an average speed...

hi pam sorry but it was a long time ago I was just a school kid, and I wasnt interested in football (allways liked rugby league) so I was somewhat of a black sheep,all I remember is that it was a lot cleaner than the boundary cafe witch was a wooden shed before they rebuilt it after I left...

thats what isaid on the previous page alma st the site used to be ici paints division ron

anyone remember when the midland red bus (169) caught fire in berwicks lane 1972ish

HI If you walked out of Halfords Lane at the junction of Birmingham Road, on your right you would have the Albion ground. Walk to the end of the Albion ground and there would be a row of houses and shops. The first or second premises was the cafe owned by Teddy Sandford. I remember, as you...

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Things I remember about smerick and companies even if they only moved to the area after starting somewhere else.poplar st, windmill lane, six ways, soho st, Geoges ironmongers corner poplar st windmill lane the greengrocers next door a alley way where billy mullins parked his lorry adodge kew...

sorry mike if you Q is addressed to me I not sure I understand , if you mean what part of rabone lane ...... our garage was on the corner of rabone lane and engine st we also had a warehouse and yard in middlemore rd.

born smethwick 1949 poplar st off windmill lane gran aunts uncles lived in lower cross st others lived in molliet st dad worked at birmid mom worked for gkn, me I owned the little red bus co in rabone lane one thing I can remember is our address 4 poplar st smethwick 40 staffs

is the photo you have of a bedford ob?

yes bill one and the same thank you

Hi does any one have any photos of this company I know its not strictly brum but not to far away thanks.

hi anne my name is ron rudd and I worked with ron smiith at regents as a mecanic/driver in the early 70s he was a good bloke to work with and we had a lot of laffs he left regents to go to pickfords tank haulage in arthur st. I used to drive the quinton hazel works service from camp hill to...

hated every second of it, went to st mathews school smethwick we were marched to rolfe st baths,the water was allways freezing never given time to dry and dress properly then marched back to school in all weathers no wonder it took till I was forty to learn to swim .

must have been a shot in the dark

how did they get to the noom

The opening of the cambridge guided bus has been delayed because contrators painting signs on the road to warn drivers "buses only" have painted the letter N backwards, no doubt specialists brought in from abroad.It could only happen in england!

I'm suprised that they are'nt going to build a mosque on the site,big of them to leave the doors,still the grown ups at b'ham council know whats best who are we to even ask if it could be saved in its entirerity..............ooooooooooh the dammmmmmmmm cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek oooooooooooooof...

I think I am right with the following info red warrior coaches in hurst street were taken over by tommy allen who owned allenways and this became allenways garage tommy sold to the wetherhogg family who continued to operate as allenways they in turn sold to dave watkis who allready owned...