Random Stuff!

[Ray Finkle]

47 although I feel 27, except the morning after a night out when I feel 107

 

[mullion]

68 for me

Hey are you liking it because I`m an old bugger lol!

 

[Matt995]

51

I'm a year older than you Karl!

 

[Ianbutty]

Just passed 58. Mentally still 26!

 

[richard winterbourn]

78 and still good for an annual jolly down to Rio and central Brasil every year plus several weeks at my home on the Algarve.

In betweentimes hard graft on my small farm down here in Herefordshire...

 

[Garybrum]

I'm 66 and just retired, though probably fitter than when I was 26!

 

[Scottie Dog]

A quick observation, if I may.

All of these responses to the original question of age really show what s diverse group we are. It also, I believe, shows that we as a group are more than just that, we are a community.

Back to other less brain strenuous things now. Enjoy your day.

 

[YorkshireLad]

I believe I may be the youngest member on this forum - 15!

 

[Karl C]

We probably all started young. I know I did as I grew up living at the end of the runway at Coventry airport and my father worked for Rolls Royce and made Concorde's engines and the RB211. Was in my blood from a very early age

 

[DarloPlaneBoy]

19 turn 20 next January

 

[richard winterbourn]

As this is 'random' and it is Easter a time when we can relax with our thoughts of yesteryear and, in other forums, consider and discuss Brum's Metro.....

So, who of us can remember Brum's trams? And i mean not just seeing them but actually riding on them?

I have a vivid recollection of riding down what i think was the Bristol Road with my parents. We lived in Selly Oak at the time.

Ah! Memories....

 

[IanFarquharson]

62

 

[JENNYJET]

Not trams specifically, but the blue trolley buses of Walsall Corporation. Electric buses? PA!! Old hat stuff. Been there done that........... but I vaguely remember trams in Hockley near Rabones factory now the cIrcus Flyover area of today.

 

[nancledre]

Memory playing up Jenny? Last trams in Brum 1953 - a bit before your time, trolleys in Walsall 1970

 

[JENNYJET]

Probably the trams but I do remember the Walsall trolley bus, was born 1959

 

[Vile8er]

Currently 66

 

[Ianbutty]

As this is 'random' and it is Easter a time when we can relax with our thoughts of yesteryear and, in other forums, consider and discuss Brum's Metro.....

So, who of us can remember Brum's trams? And i mean not just seeing them but actually riding on them?

I have a vivid recollection of riding down what i think was the Bristol Road with my parents. We lived in Selly Oak at the time.

Ah! Memories....

Sorry far too young!

Of aeroplanes, and off topic, sorry, though, i lived in Watford until was 4 3/4, and I vividly remember when Concorde circled round London for the first time. Came from the east so we all went out the front and a whole street's worth of neighbours rushed though their houses as it past over, to watch it head west!

One of my earliest memories. Got me hooked on aviation.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Not trams specifically, but the blue trolley buses of Walsall Corporation.

I remember going on the old blue Walsall Corporation Trolley Buses when I was very young. I would go with my Mom and my Sister from Bloxwich to Walsall. While waiting, it always fascinated me to watch the bus conductor unhook the electricity pick ups (pantographs?) from the overhead wires using a long pole, so that another bus could pass I believe Walsall was the last place to retire Trolley Buses and I would have been 6 in 1970.

Walsall Trolley Buses at Bloxwich, 1969.

Credit: Claire at Flickr

 

[mullion]

IanButty Was that when Concorde flew round with the Red Arrows must have been 1969 as that was the year we moved from Harrow up to Stockport so from under approach to Northolt to under Manchester Approach

 

[blotbuc1]

I remember going on the old blue Walsall Corporation Trolley Buses when I was very young. I would go with my Mom and my Sister from Bloxwich to Walsall. While waiting, it always fascinated me to watch the bus conductor unhook the electricity pick ups (pantographs?) from the overhead wires using a long pole, so that another bus could pass I believe Walsall was the last place to retire Trolley Buses and I would have been 6 in 1970.

Walsall Trolley Buses at Bloxwich, 1969.

Credit: Claire at Flickr

Nearly the last to retire them, Bradford was the last in March 1972.