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2rd Febuary 1948

Bernard67Arnold

Bernard67Arnold

master brummie
bet there are not many members of the forum who can remember this day in 1948, having taken the Kings Shilling and signed on for 5 and 7, I was on my way by train from
Birmingham to the Guards Depot in Caterham Surrey. Is it really 63 years ago?
Wish I knew where all the years have gone! never once regretted my decision
to enlist and becoming part of the Coldstream family. Bernard
 
Hi Bernard. N/S call up 1947, travelled from Acocks Green station to Warwick for Basic training, demobbed 1949 from the Royal Artillery. Len.
 
Bernard, if you only waited a bit longer you could have gone to St Andrews on the 14th and seen this match.

Blues play Leeds United. They won 5–1, their best win of the season so far. Bobby Laing, making his debut for Blues, scored two, as did Jackie Stewart. Don Dorman scored the other. 39,955 were there.

Birmingham City:— Merrick; Green, Jennings; Harris, Duckhouse, Mitchell; Stewart, Dorman, Trigg, Bodle, Laing.

Nick
 
brummie nick said:
Bernard, if you only waited a bit longer you could have gone to St Andrews on the 14th and seen this match.

Blues play Leeds United. They won 5–1, their best win of the season so far. Bobby Laing, making his debut for Blues, scored two, as did Jackie Stewart. Don Dorman scored the other. 39,955 were there.

Birmingham City:— Merrick; Green, Jennings; Harris, Duckhouse, Mitchell; Stewart, Dorman, Trigg, Bodle, Laing.

Nick
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Thought Wilson Jones was C/f in those days, Cyril Trigg was a full back surely? I knew H Bodle really
well some years later, he kept a subPO in Derby and I did his collection one Christmas and he almost got me drunk talking
about the "old days", Bernard
 
brummie nick, Cyril Trigg played full back & centre forward for Blues he was happy to play in any position if asked and todays players could follow his example & have an handkerchief tucked up their shirt sleeve and blow their nose`s instead of snotting on the pitch, Ted Duckhouse played centre forward, centre half & fullback and i think worked for Post Office before turning Professional because he was very often at the Wilclare Rd sports ground. Len.
 
brummie nick, Wilson Jones. Len. date of birth 29 April 1914(1914-04-29) Place of birth Wrexham, Wales Date of death 9 January 1986(1986-01-09) (aged 71) Place of death Birmingham, England Playing position Centre-forward Youth career 1930–1932 Brymbo Green Senior career1 Years Club App (Gls)* 1932–1934
1934–1947
1947–1948
1948–1949 Wrexham
Birmingham
Nottingham Forest
Kidderminster Harriers 006 0(3)
135 (63)
007 0(5) National team 1935–1939 Wales 002 0(1) 1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)
Charles Wilson Jones (29 April 1914 – 9 January 1986) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as an centre-forward for Wrexham, Birmingham and Nottingham Forest in the Football League, and for Wales at international level.
He was Birmingham's top scorer on three occasions in the First Division in the 1930s. He won two caps for Wales, the first on 27 March 1935 against Northern Ireland at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, when he scored the first goal in a 3–1 win,[1] and the second on 20 May 1939, a 1–1 draw against France in Paris.
 
lencops said:
Very nice Bernard but i did not have a sweetheart i would pay that amount of money for a brooch , the price of a safety pin was more in line with my Army pay!. Len.
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Hi Len I remember my pay when I joined up was 28 shillings a week, however i n
1953 when I came out it was £6.6s, and I started as a Postman in Birmingham at
£5.19.6., there was three different pay rates, we were on the middle one but when
I moved out to Burton on the Overspill Scheme my pay went down by ten bob a
week. Bernard.
 
lencops said:
brummie nick, Cyril Trigg played full back & centre forward for Blues he was happy to play in any position if asked and todays players could follow his example & have an handkerchief tucked up their shirt sleeve and blow their nose`s instead of snotting on the pitch, Ted Duckhouse played centre forward, centre half & fullback and i think worked for Post Office before turning Professional because he was very often at the Wilclare Rd sports ground. Len.
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Didnt Ted marry Harry Storers daughter?? Bernard
 
Also on 28 shillings a week when I started my 8 years in the RAF, June 7th 1948, train to Cardington for my 3 months "square bashing", the camp was dominated by the gigantic R101 airship hanger which I believe still exists. Eric
 
cardington, the hangers are still there and so was the RAF up till the early 80's, there is some sort of industrial estate now,
 
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