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Ta-Ra-a-Bit Our Kid
What does 'Chobblin' mean? What are 'Donnies'? If it's 'Black Over Bill's Mother's' what should you do? Where does the saying come from? All these questions and many more are answered in this humorous and engaging little book of how Brummies spoke and speak. containing sayings and phrases from recent history and much, much further back.Essential for the younger Brummie to understand their older relatives, and a book full of nostalgia for the 'old uns'. A treasure-trove of Brummie, Black Country and other slang used in Birmingham for centuries. An important repository for these fast - disappearing local gems. Read it, use them and keep our heritage language alive. Also a great gift for older Brummies. This Second Edition contains loads of extra Brummie phrases and is about 40% bigger!
Walsall's Front Line
In 1997, West Midlands Police were facing huge challenges with rising crime and anti-social behaviour blighting the lives of thousands of people within communities who became victims of criminality.As a national debate raged about the need to take a 'zero tolerance' approach to crime, others argued for a problem solving approach and the preservation of the principles of policing by consent.Radical measures were called for, and in the spring of 1997, West Midlands Police was restructured into twenty-one 'Operational Command Units' with the specific aim of delivering local policing to local people.One of those command units became known as 'H2' and covered half of the Borough of Walsall situat...
Reporting For Duty
'Courage and Commitment' was the motto adopted by the West Midlands Police when it celebrated twenty-five years of existence in 1999. It was as relevant then as it is to this day. 'Reporting For Duty' seeks to provide the reader with a unique insight into the world of policing in the West Midlands, and the challenges faced by the Force daily from its inception on the 1st April 1974, to 1999. It covers a tumultuous period of social history, as the fabric of society was moulded, stretched and reformed against a backcloth of political and civil unrest, culminating in outbreaks of serious violence and acts of terrorism, whilst serious crime and serious criminals constantly tested the Force's abi...
Black Over Bill's Mother's
The story of family torn apart, and a rollercoaster adventure through the formative decades of the last century involving the genesis of the Hells Angels, Organised Crime Gangs and the underside of Policing, packed with nostalgia and history.Mary Docker, a single mother in wartime, fights for her own and her twin's survival. The twins have their own problems. A rare genetic 'miracle' means one is black, one white. Their destinies lead them to opposite sides of the law, conflict and betrayal. Elsewhere in Birmingham, Patrick Quinn, a violent child of Irish descent, makes a deal with the devil, a deal that haunts him down the years and draws the twins into a cataclysmic showdown.Set predominan...
Top Secret Worcestershire
Deep in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside lie a number of secret places that played a special part in protecting a generation from the onslaught of a world war. Travellers passing through leafy Worcestershire lanes may catch a glimpse of a structure that seems out of place against the backdrop of fields and hills – the dish of a gigantic radio telescope. How did such an incongruous structure arrive in the middle of nowhere, and what does it do? This book answers the question, and recounts the dramatic history of two ‘Top Secret’ wartime airfields, and how their activities were inextricably linked to the ‘boffins’ of the Malvern Telecommunications Research Establishment. It tells the story of brilliant inventions, wartime courage and sacrifice, tragic air crashes, and ordinary and extraordinary people, pushing themselves and their machines to the limit and beyond. Crafted using personal recollections – the book reveals the truly extraordinary wartime commitment and camaraderie that fuelled extraordinary endeavour and achievement.
It's A Blag
'Welcome to an unseen world - unless you are a 'cop' of course. These are genuine stories of the tricks that police officers play on each other, plus a dose of funny police stories as a bonus. You won't believe the extraordinary lengths some officers will go to, in order to 'get one over' a colleague, or the quick thinking and wit to make the most of a situation that presents itself. Police and graveyards, police and mortuaries, the 'character building of Probationary Constables, the Florida job that wasn't, the magic bank card, the 'art of spinning', the 'wubbery' chow mein - they are all in here. Mention the words 'blag' and 'blaggers', and most people of a certain age will think of the sl...
The Noble Cause
The cover photograph depicts Police Constable 118 'a' Thomas Wright. His imperious pose commemorates the awarding of a certificate for bravery on the Thirteenth of February 1911.He risked his life to protect others. In this case it was a runaway horse, and not an armed terrorist, but nevertheless his heroism encapsulated the core principle of policing - that of protecting others, their lives, their property, their society.The principles demonstrated by PC Wright remain at its heart to the present day - it's why policing is in truth 'The Noble Cause'.This is a 'warts and all' book about policing in the 1980's and 1990's, written by two former police officers who did 'the job' collectively for...
It's a Blag
'Welcome to an unseen world - unless you are a 'cop' of course. These are genuine stories of the tricks that police officers play on each other, plus a dose of funny police stories as a bonus. You won't believe the extraordinary lengths some officers will go to, in order to 'get one over' a colleague, or the quick thinking and wit to make the most of a situation that presents itself. Police and graveyards, police and mortuaries, the 'character building of Probationary Constables, the Florida job that wasn't, the magic bank card, the 'art of spinning', the 'wubbery' chow mein - they are all in here. Mention the words 'blag' and 'blaggers', and most people of a certain age will think of the sl...
