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Bob Davis said:
Mike
Thanks very much indeed, disappointed of course I had hoped to see a model, but you would need an awful lot of nuts and bolts as mw0njm said.

Bob
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Here's a model for you, built by a friend of mine.
There are still Meccano enthusiasts building models today from all round the world.
The South Birmingham Meccano Club (SBMC) still hold meetings twice a year, April & October, at Hall Green Baptist Church, this is where we have been meeting for the last 46 years! Members are mainly of the senior age group, but any Meccano enthusiasts who would like to join the South Birmingham Meccano Club can do so, as long as they are willing to attend twice yearly meetings in Hall Green send me a private message if interested.
Enthusiasm and a genuine interest in model-building in MECCANO are the only qualifications.

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michaelwicks54 said:
Hello Bob. I just checked on Bing, & they sat it is a flat bottomed spoon type implement for skimming the top of the oil in a chip shop. Apparently, the chinese use a similar thing but is called a spider. Hope this helps.
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A skimmer is mostly used in kitchens - or any place where cooking is done - to remove surface scum from boiling meats, separating cream from the surface of boiling milk, the surplus batter (as in the quoted post) in chippies and so on.
Other skimmers were for more industrial or gardening usage.
There are two or three kitchen types in my kitchen but I use a kiddies fishing net for my pond. ;)
Then of course there is the newer type of skimmer usually associated with credit card fraud!!
 
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john bev said:
The photograph in post 1861 showing Lawley street. Can anyone confirm that the company just out of the photograph was G H Bloore Ltd. which dealt in plastics. My Dad worked there in the 60's and seventy's.
regards John.
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Hi John i can confirm that the marginal view of the building is J Saviile Gordon which was indeed next to G H Bloore Ltd i worked there 1975-1978 and i get the feeling i may have worked with your dad - was his name Tommy Bevan?. I worked in the office and Tommy was a Driver for them.
 
Michael_Ingram said:
My sister lived in Bankes Road from the early 50s until about 2000 when she moved to retirement flats in Hall Green. It was a lovely road. Unfortunately I can’t remember the number; it was about half way in the dip. I spent many happy times visiting her and staying there when I was a lad and my parents were on holiday. She is not in the Coronation picture, I think that then she came to our family home in Guildford Street. Her married name was Doris Cridge. The Cridge family lived in the Peaky Blinders area near Garrison Lane and were a mixture of English, Italian an Irish
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I lived in Gordon Street during the 1960s and the Cridges ran the greengrocers on the corner of Garrison Lane and Barwell Road.
 
Bob Davis said:
Brilliant, thank you very much and look at all those nuts and bolts. It is a better representation than some of the models (Forward excepted) that appear on Ebay

Bob
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RobT said:
Here's a description for building a Meccano Bus from the March 1954 Meccano Magazine Page 140.
Also shown photo of model built in Birmingham colours, by a friend Sid, lives in Hall Green, been making Meccano models for nearly the last 70 years.

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Looks absolutely brilliant Rob. I myself, am currently building a 1:12 scale model of a 1966 Routemaster from London at the moment. Should be finished in around 20 weeks or so.
 
My parents bought me quite a large Meccano set and steam engine completely ignoring my lack of mechanical skills.
My Dad said he would help construct the windmill etc but overlooked that he wasnt an engineer but a head waiter and had little time at home.
It was eventually built ,fired up and dismantled and passed on. Anyone who builds buses has my admiration !
 
tim eborn said:
My parents bought me quite a large Meccano set and steam engine completely ignoring my lack of mechanical skills.
My Dad said he would help construct the windmill etc but overlooked that he wasnt an engineer but a head waiter and had little time at home.
It was eventually built ,fired up and dismantled and passed on. Anyone who builds buses has my admiration !
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Hello Tim. One of the great things about model building, whether it be Maccano or like I am doing at the moment, it does not matter about having engineering skills, as I think quite anybody could create masterpieces, though it may take a little longer. They are great passtimes to have. Building these models is a great stress buster. Will share a photo or 2 when my bus is completed.
 
Phil said:
Just these last few of Moseley Road and I'll move on somewhere else before I bore you all to death. Among these images we have the beginning of Moseley Rd at Bradford St, a tram outside the Castle & Falcon opposite Vincent St, a postcard view from Brighton Rd, a view just past Cromer Rd and one from Highgate Rd at Camp Hill passenger station.
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Phil showed a photo back in 2012, of a tram outside the Castle & Falcon opposite Vincent Street in Moseley Road taken in 1949.
I wonder where he got that photo from? I have found the same photo in some of my Family photographs, and if nothing else I can perhaps show a clearer photograph now.
The photo also shows Butlers Garage, which was at 408 Moseley Road, my step-father Malcolm Dyche had a professional photographers shop at 354 Moseley Road for 50 years, the photo is very clear & good quality, perhaps he could have taken it. Or he had a copy because it was so close to his home & business.
Also of interest is the No.42 Tram and the Castle & Falcon Pub.castle-and-falcon-pub-moseley-road.jpg
 
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RobT said:
Phil showed a photo back in 2012, of a tram outside the Castle & Falcon opposite Vincent Street in Moseley Road taken in 1949.
I wonder where he got that photo from? I have found the same photo in some of my Family photographs, and if nothing else I can perhaps show a clearer photograph now.
The photo also shows Butlers Garage, which was at 408 Moseley Road, my step-father Ernest Dyche had a professional photographers shop at 354 Moseley Road for 50 years, the photo is very clear & good quality, perhaps he could have taken it. Or he had a copy because it was so close to his home & business.
Also of interest is the No.42 Tram and the Castle & Falcon Pub.View attachment 143964
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So nice to see a nice bright photo
the sub was out that day
 
RobT said:
Phil showed a photo back in 2012, of a tram outside the Castle & Falcon opposite Vincent Street in Moseley Road taken in 1949.
I wonder where he got that photo from? I have found the same photo in some of my Family photographs, and if nothing else I can perhaps show a clearer photograph now.
The photo also shows Butlers Garage, which was at 408 Moseley Road, my step-father Ernest Dyche had a professional photographers shop at 354 Moseley Road for 50 years, the photo is very clear & good quality, perhaps he could have taken it. Or he had a copy because it was so close to his home & business.
Also of interest is the No.42 Tram and the Castle & Falcon Pub.View attachment 143964
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I mentioned my step-father Malcolm Dyche & his father Ernest, who were professional Photographers at 354 Moseley Road, and his father Ernest previously from 1910 in Coventry Road.
Here is some more information about the business, please have a look at the Balsall Heath Local History News Letter in the attached pdf document below, giving lots more details.
Couple shown below are my Step-Father Malcolm Dyche & My mother Pauline on their wedding day (both now deceased). Does anyone have good memories of going to their studio?.

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oldMohawk said:
A 1954 street view near St Martins, digging up old tramway tracks.
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I used to work for Douglas Plant Hire which was on the Walsall road next to Tuckers from 1977 to 1988.
 
RobT said:
Phil showed a photo back in 2012, of a tram outside the Castle & Falcon opposite Vincent Street in Moseley Road taken in 1949.
I wonder where he got that photo from? I have found the same photo in some of my Family photographs, and if nothing else I can perhaps show a clearer photograph now.
The photo also shows Butlers Garage, which was at 408 Moseley Road, my step-father Malcolm Dyche had a professional photographers shop at 354 Moseley Road for 50 years, the photo is very clear & good quality, perhaps he could have taken it. Or he had a copy because it was so close to his home & business.
Also of interest is the No.42 Tram and the Castle & Falcon Pub.View attachment 143964
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Reviewing this photo I realised that there was a lot of interest here, besides the tram.
The old style petrol pumps, probably dealt with by an attendant or the gaffer. No self service there. I suspect the Capstan cigarette advertisement sign was part of the shop belonging to the snooker hall. It looks like it was called The Star, but I did not find anything here on BHF about it. There seems to be a lamp post (former gas?) outside the snooker entrance but without any lantern. The Morris 8?, with a Coventry registration, would be a collectors car today.
 
My first car was a Morris 8 series E 1939 CWD 905,cost £€60 in 1957
Good runner ,had to carry a 5 gallon drum of oil in the boot.Till I put new rings in the pistons.
 
Edifi said:
My first car was a Morris 8 series E 1939 CWD 905,cost £€60 in 1957
Good runner ,had to carry a 5 gallon drum of oil in the boot.Till I put new rings in the pistons.
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Funny you should say that I had a 1939 Morris 8 Series E, seen here parked outside Prospect View, Louise Road, Handsworth near The Barrel Pub but that's another story. It cost about £25 secondhand in 1962. Took my test in it & failed!
It had air-conditioning, you wound the windscreen out, so it extended out at the bottom.
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Radiorails said:
Reviewing this photo I realised that there was a lot of interest here, besides the tram.
The old style petrol pumps, probably dealt with by an attendant or the gaffer. No self service there. I suspect the Capstan cigarette advertisement sign was part of the shop belonging to the snooker hall. It looks like it was called The Star, but I did not find anything here on BHF about it. There seems to be a lamp post (former gas?) outside the snooker entrance but without any lantern. The Morris 8?, with a Coventry registration, would be a collectors car today.
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Alan
The snooker Hall is listed in the 1950 Kellys as back 410. 410A was Wollaston & Evans, electrical contractors, and 410 was ERnest Blick, wireless dealer. Possibly the capstan sign belonged to the Butlers garage at 408
 
mikejee said:
Alan
The snooker Hall is listed in the 1950 Kellys as back 410. 410A was Wollaston & Evans, electrical contractors, and 410 was ERnest Blick, wireless dealer. Possibly the capstan sign belonged to the Butlers garage at 408
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Thank you Mike.
I did wonder about the 'contractors' sign. It is a little confusing as there seems to be a trophy plaque, which I thought might be connected with snooker, also in that window. Equally the Capstan sign seemed out of place. Maybe it was a relic from a previous occupier? Capstan were very strong cigarettes and women rarely smoked them I imagine, but many men did and most masculine places were usually clouded in a fog of cigarette smoke. ;)
 
RobT said:
Funny you should say that I had a 1939 Morris 8 Series E, seen here parked outside Prospect View, Louise Road, Handsworth near The Barrel Pub but that's another story. It cost about £25 secondhand in 1962. Took my test in it & failed!
It had air-conditioning, you wound the windscreen out, so it extended out at the bottom.
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Interesting registration number from the Isle of Ely, worth a bob or two now if you still had it.

Bob
 
RobT ,that brings back so many memories.Mine was Green with Black Wings.About 6 months after I sold it, it suddenly appeared.The person had had it resprayed ,it looked lovely:joy::joy::joy:
 
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