chaseracer Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Low Horatio gearbox, Jim Bell, LightBulbFun and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 and you say youre not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted September 17, 2021 Author Share Posted September 17, 2021 It's the accent that gives it away, isn't it? 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMort Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Absolutely love the slightly off the wall paint scheme on the Thames 300E. Low Horatio gearbox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 1 hour ago, chaseracer said: It's the accent that gives it away, isn't it? 😄 can take the man out of brum........................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jude Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Many a night lost on that road, fight gotten in to, ah - memories. Last time I was there, I was on the top floor of the new Snobs, and shouting abuse at some tosser who was kicked out of the club. Kept trying to get back in, bouncer kept kicking him out horriblemercedes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, St.Jude said: Many a night lost on that road, fight gotten in to, ah - memories. Last time I was there, I was on the top floor of the new Snobs, and shouting abuse at some tosser who was kicked out of the club. Kept trying to get back in, bouncer kept kicking him out Genuinely could've been my mate Jamie MiniMort and St.Jude 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadgetgricey Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Who loves ya baby goosey and chaseracer 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jude Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 24 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said: Genuinely could've been my mate Jamie This lad was about 17 and genuinely looked like he wanted to be the front man of the smiths, if Morrissey shopped at Primark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Spagetti Junction, from my Lunch time Walk. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jude Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Speaking of the Gravelly Hill Interchange... This photo did the rounds around the world a few years ago, as someone was putting together an exhibition of the Irish in Birmingham. Notice, if you will, the only one there with a hard hat on was the priest! Years prior to said exhibition, my Dad was in Ireland with my sister and he went to see a bloke he had worked with. They were chatting away and the man goes to my Dad that he's got a photo he should see. My dad's looking at the photo, bemused at it. My sister said he looked at the bloke, practically shrugging as much to say "What about this photo?". The bloke goes to him that he's in it. Dad looks at it again, and he thinks he's being had. The bloke points my own Dad out to him, and he's there on the right crouching down. It sort of clicks with my Dad, but he goes to the bloke that he has no recollection of ever working on Spaghetti Junction. "Why wouldn't you?" the man replies, "you were always blind drunk when you bothered to turn up at all". He wasn't the only one there either who would've been drunk building the whole thing! Also turns out my Dad had a nickname of "one day" which I only found out about at his funeral, as he'd only show up for work one day a week. And I thought the cheek of him to give me shit for not working! Later on, with the now wife, it turns out her god father's dad worked on Spaghetti aswell but was more of a suit kind of role than labourer like my Dad. But that photo, I think, was taken roughly around the time it'd have been opened, so my Dad would've been around the god father's Dad at that moment in time. Synchronisty things like that I absolutely love. Dan_ZTT, chaseracer, Matty and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 My dad was a junior civil engineer on Spaghetti Junction before moving on to the Mersey tunnel. St.Jude and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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