Work, Rest And Play

A Memory of Selly Oak.

I recall well, nights out at the Plough and Harrow pub and the Oak too. Lots of great times there. My father was a HGV driver for a haulage company called A M garage, it was based down the end of Elliot Road, right at the back of Selly Oak hospital. I worked there briefly too making packing crates for shock absorbers that the company delivered around the UK car factories. I think it was work for Burmans or was it Birmetals? But lots of other haulage including continental haulage as well.
West Midland Travel used the old company site years later for their local mini bus routes, I dont know what, in between time, the site was used for. My girlfriend lived in Gleave Road, just a short walk from the A M Garage site.
My mother and father met in Selly Oak park sometime in the late 1930's, they lived in Poole Crescent at one time before moving to Weoley Castle, so still around Selly Oak really.
Fond memories indeed.

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