fergie
master brummie
Edit. This thread is about the Birmingham Small Arms factory from the 1940s onwards. For discussion about the factory in other periods please see the thread links here:
BSA early years to the late 1800s https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...m-small-arms-early-years-to-late-1800s.48410/
BSA 1900s to 1930s https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-small-arms-1900s-1930s.3009/
BSA during the Blitz https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-small-arms-in-blitz.48277/j
BSA bikes https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/bsa-bikes-birmingham.8582/#post-274304
Unfortunately the image referred to below is no longer available.
I was given this photo by my Mom Sheila Johnson/Hilburn nee Bartlett
Mom reckons that her father my grandfather Charles Samuel Bartlett is in the group though it is difficult to see. She believes it was taken at the BSA Birmingham Small Arms and that it may have been taken at the end of WW2 or Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the latter I think. I know my grandfather had a couple of occupations on his marriage cert 1918 he was a rope maker and I believe he may have had connections with Waring, on his death cert it states he he was a cycle maker that was in 1959. On the back of the Photo there is a faint print stating G BROAD 109 High Street Tunstall High Class Photography. Does this tug at any ones memory. I believe there is part of the factory still remaining in Armoury Road Small Heath it suffered an air raid in November 1940 whereby many people lost there lives. According to their roll of honour there was a Lesley Harold Bartlett I wondered if he might be related.
https://www.madeinbirmingham.org/bsamem.htm
BSA early years to the late 1800s https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...m-small-arms-early-years-to-late-1800s.48410/
BSA 1900s to 1930s https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-small-arms-1900s-1930s.3009/
BSA during the Blitz https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-small-arms-in-blitz.48277/j
BSA bikes https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/bsa-bikes-birmingham.8582/#post-274304
Unfortunately the image referred to below is no longer available.
I was given this photo by my Mom Sheila Johnson/Hilburn nee Bartlett
Mom reckons that her father my grandfather Charles Samuel Bartlett is in the group though it is difficult to see. She believes it was taken at the BSA Birmingham Small Arms and that it may have been taken at the end of WW2 or Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the latter I think. I know my grandfather had a couple of occupations on his marriage cert 1918 he was a rope maker and I believe he may have had connections with Waring, on his death cert it states he he was a cycle maker that was in 1959. On the back of the Photo there is a faint print stating G BROAD 109 High Street Tunstall High Class Photography. Does this tug at any ones memory. I believe there is part of the factory still remaining in Armoury Road Small Heath it suffered an air raid in November 1940 whereby many people lost there lives. According to their roll of honour there was a Lesley Harold Bartlett I wondered if he might be related.
https://www.madeinbirmingham.org/bsamem.htm
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