DEAR EDITOR - Memory Lane a couple of weeks ago, published a photograph of an electricity showroom with a tramline leading to the rear of the premises.

May I be permitted to identify the photograph as being the future MEB showroom in the High Street, Kings Heath - with the tramlines leading to the old Birmingham Steam tram shed in Silver Street?

This week we are reminded of A and F Sanders Limited of Barnt Green, when I think I can remember Mr Lambert, then a dark haired young man! He may recall the diminutive Gerald Heming who enrolled into the old preliminary course, when Bromsgrove College of Further Education was located in the distinguished John Cotton designed building in New Road. Gerald was too small to get an apprenticeship. His prelim year saw him only receiving practical instruction in brickwork for two and a half-hours a week in college. His dad employed him as a plumber's mate. Eventually, Mr Sanders took Gerald on and he later obtained a City and Guilds Full Technical Certificate in brickwork, and in due course became a lecturer in Liverpool College.

Sadly, Gerald Heming died of cancer in 1995, leaving a wife and two children. I was privileged to give an address at this sound Christian man's funeral. On every report that I did on Gerald during his five years at Bromsgrove College of Further Education, contained "...an excellent student in every respect.."

County Cllr Tom Wareing,

Jays Close, Redditch.