For those with an interest in Tigers Island below is the entry for an auction in 1919.Yes of course the BCT airport service ran beyond the boundary, i had forgotten that one.
I have somewhere a photograph of a trolleybus at the boundary terminus which was also known locally
as Tigers Island.
I don't remember there being any tigers in Arden Oak Road, but Olorenshaw and Sheldonfield now that's another matter.
For those with an interest in Tigers Island below is the entry for an auction in 1919.
Unfortunately there isn't a photograph of the cottages
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Another thread claims to have a photo of Tiger Cottage.For those with an interest in Tigers Island below is the entry for an auction in 1919.
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Unfortunately there isn't a photograph of the cottages.
The Corporation buses which ran to the Airport were not an official BCT route. They were operated on behalf of BEA who held the licence for the service. There was a trolley bus route which did cross the boundary to go to the Rover Works but this was a wartime emergency service which was handed over to the Midland Red after the war.
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Airport bus arriving at the main terminal building (from 1962 airport booklet). Single-deckers in BCT colours were relatively rare in those days mostly appearing for things like school services, i.e. not operating omnibus traffic. As David said this service ran under contract to BEA, hence no route number and the extra notice boards above the side windows.
Unrelated but I remember single-decker green-liveried buses that ran to Rover Lode Lane from Coventry. I think that was a private service going back to war-time when Coventry-based Rover first opened the shadow factory in Solihull.
Radiorails made some interesting comments about the airport service here.
Ha Ha not at all, the building looks like support columns for a flyover with walls added all very modern but concrete walls no details may as well be a visiting room for a low level security prison, just missing the guards at the rails.I hope you didn't mean the building in my avatar looks ugly bob, built and opened in 1939 !
some great pics from yester year some of that seating is now worth a few bob.Airport booklet 1965. The history is interesting as it shows that central (London) government didn't (still doesn't!) see the need for 'regional' international airports. I recall a House of Lords committee saying that they wanted LHR to remain 'the world's busiest airport'. Also a BA passenger survey at LHR which when asked how they could improve things I said, "Fly from somewhere else!", having driven over 100 miles just so I could fly to Edinburgh.
That building looks new but ugly
Obviously that is not Florence ADMX you are thinking about as a comparison, although I often think most airports bear a similarity to prisons. Very difficult to get out of, but back to the theme these buses were very much helped in their good looks by the BCT colours and the chrome stripping. I was interested to note that the building was opened in 1939, it looks much more modern and post war than that. Have you noticed none of them have luggage. Was this just a publicity shot, that could be Herr Flick in the Leather coat and drag and the chap in the glasses is certainly entranced by the lady flasher coming towards him, meanwhile the chap behind her is struggling to get his gun out.............to much caffeine and an uncontrollable imagination. Again a question, who designed the building and who were the builders?Ha Ha not at all, the building looks like support columns for a flyover with walls added all very modern but concrete walls no details may as well be a visiting room for a low level security prison, just missing the guards at the rails.
i never really liked going to the airport it never had a good vibe for me.
That entrance to me does not look like the gateway to far flung places with exotic food and drinkSurely you don't mean the main entrance to the 1939 Art Deco terminal? Said to have been based on the terminal at Berlin Templehof but I don't see it myself.
I could get on that bus right now with a flask of tea and cheese and onion sarney and ride it all the way like a 12 year old to Western Super MudObviously that is not Florence ADMX you are thinking about as a comparison, although I often think most airports bear a similarity to prisons. Very difficult to get out of, but back to the theme these buses were very much helped in their good looks by the BCT colours and the chrome stripping. I was interested to note that the building was opened in 1939, it looks much more modern and post war than that. Have you noticed none of them have luggage. Was this just a publicity shot, that could be Herr Flick in the Leather coat and drag and the chap in the glasses is certainly entranced by the lady flasher coming towards him, meanwhile the chap behind her is struggling to get his gun out.............to much caffeine and an uncontrollable imagination. Again a question, who designed the building and who were the builders?
Bob
"By January 1937, Norman and Dawbarn had been authorised to finalise the design drawings, which appear to have been completed by June 1937. In October that year Holst and Co. Ltd. were appointed for the reinforced concrete construction work, with Richard Crittall and Co. Ltd. for the panel heating system, and Henry Hall and Son Ltd. for the metal windows. The entire expenditure on the project would amount to around £360,000. " [From Historic England]The architects were Norman and Dawbarn, and I think it was built by Dares of Birmingham, can someone confirm that for me.
Lovely little read interesting article on the seed of the building along with the history."By January 1937, Norman and Dawbarn had been authorised to finalise the design drawings, which appear to have been completed by June 1937. In October that year Holst and Co. Ltd. were appointed for the reinforced concrete construction work, with Richard Crittall and Co. Ltd. for the panel heating system, and Henry Hall and Son Ltd. for the metal windows. The entire expenditure on the project would amount to around £360,000. " [From Historic England]
Sounds plausible. If anyone has the time to get access it might be worth trying http://calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MS+1056I am just thinking that there might have been an error in the Historic England report. I don't know the name Henry Hallo and Son Ltd but then the building was built many years before I was born. I was thinking that that it should be Henry Hope and Sons Ltd, metal window manufacturers who used to be in Halfords Lane in Smethwick
I guess it certainly rattled the cups and saucers on the dresser (assuming they had one).I'm not sure that would have been appreciated by those in the house shown
Interesting Wikipedia entry on the plane, including its accident record