Hi Dave - You have brought back a memory from my dim and distant past. Yes I do remember stamping out my name on that machine, I had forgotten all about that. I used to love it, and getting the strip with the print on it. Fantastic. It seemed to me as a child that we always used to start out holidays by train from Snow Hill in the late 40's/early 50's, and got so exited when the train came in, pouring out smoke, ready to take us to the seaside.
Judy
I've probably mentioned it before somewhere on the forum, but I had my first childhood holiday towards the end of WW2 at Arley. I went on a train to Bridgenorth or probably Shrewsbury and was very disappointed because it was a GWR Diesel railcar and not a 'real' steam train. So I had my 'Forties Week' in the real Forties.
Click the up arrows if you want to go to those threads ...My first holiday as a child was towards the end of WW2. We went with our next door neighbours, by Midland Red bus to Bewdley, I can't remember how we got to Arley, but do remember standing at a signpost with the 'grown-ups' arguing about which way to go. We stayed in a real gypsy caravan in a farmer's field near Arley. The caravan had large wooden wheels with horse shafts, and steps up to the end door. It was decorated with bright colours inside and out. It had a wood burning stove for cooking. I used to go with my sister down a hill across the railway track to the River Severn, and I remember a small island in the river at that point. We used to watch US airplanes flying along the river so low we could look down on them from the hill. I also remember the pub down by the river.
Memories........
I hadn't heard of the railcar being referred to as the bluebird before. They used to run to Dudley via Old Hill and Blowers Green and were nicknamed the Dudley dodgers. There was also the Blue Pullman which was an express diesel unit that ran from Paddington to Wolverhampton Low Level.Thanks Phil, it looks like the one, very comfortable for a 9d ride. cheers
Just came across a rather unusual, but great photograph, of L.M Region Coronation Pacific "City of Bristol" at Snow Hill station in B.R days, at the head of a Birkenhead-Paddington express train. Whether they went into New Street or not, they certainly went into Snow Hill!! Eddie
If it was on the Birkenhead-Paddington train it must have come on at Wolverhampton as the loco would have been too heavy for the lines north of Wolverhampton. So what was it doing at Wolverhampton? and what did WR men think of being rostered with an LMR engine?
It was only after viewing John's pictures (before and after) that I started to wonder why the Grand Hotel was never called the Great Western, as so many others were. Was it because, although close to the station, it didn't actually belong to the Great Western company?
Wellington Street, where I was born and bred, in Winson Green was a train spotters' paradise, with both LMS and GWR bridging it. The back of our house wasn't bad either with the LMS railway bank at the bottom of the garden and a signal stop so close you could chat to the drivers while sitting on the garden wall.
Hi Lyn, Done, thanks to your excellent instructions, ticket photographed surprisingly well.peg we have sections for most topics and subjects so that where possible we try to post under the correct thread those who have already posted on it are more likely to respond to a new post that has been made..having said that we do not have a thread for air raid shelter tickets so could i suggest you post it under ww2 discussion section..click on sub section the blitz and homefront and start a new thread giving it your own title..ie AIR RAID SHELTER TICKET ...would love to see that...trinity road would i think be the one in aston
lyn
I'm with you there! Although the cabinet was in a fairly secure site on the platform you can well see that the contents could attract unwelcome attention.Thanks for posting this Peg. I remember seeing that gun display case in the late 50s when I was a young Gunner.
I was fascinated because the rifle inside was a "civilianised" Lee Enfield .303 No. 4 rifle, and a beautiful job had been made of it too.
I can't imagine a rifle on display like that in these troubled times !