Webb's Wonderful

Are they any connection with Webbs the nursery near here?

I don't know Sticki - just found this on G**gle . . . 'H.C. Webb were a traditional engineering company who producing lawnmowers at their Birmingham works from the 1920's until the 1980's when they were absorbed into the Qualcast Group'.

I wonder? Birmingham is about 15 miles from webbs?

yous till use these? i used to have an ancieant one lol//sry in ahurry.,.going to sarahs to halp her with some didstarter@ lol c u later x

I love the sound of these mowers. I have a cheap strimmer mower but would really like a push one....no cable required!

I keep telling my OH I want one of these they are brilliant mowers, I could do with some exercise too!!! :O)

No..never seen one of them ..Must be before my time ;)

I would have one of these by choice.

Obviously only a spring chicken Pimpernel, only us older generation can remember these darlings. lol.

I do Pixi, but I also have a modern Bosch job for when the grass is too long!
Good for the old six-pack Karen - I like Shepherd Neame!
You're dead right Homebird.
Barbara, tell him you're prepared to share it with him!
Pimp . . . yeah, right! . . lol ;-)

I'm only 10 years younger than you Muddy but I can remember my grandad having mowers like this. I did have a B&Q manual one until last year - had it for years. Replaced it with a more modern one and didn't like it one bit! So now have a flymo - which does the job not too bad!

They take me back! Are you sure you haven't been down and pinched these from Shakespeare Street, Muddy?!

btw Muddy were you 1956 or 1957?

AGe is but a state of mind St lol

im just interested!! and i will tell you why depending on the answer!!

wow my grandad had 2 of these and his petrol mower to, i use to love doing the garden with him so i could use them, but hated cleaning it after and it had to be perfect them a brush with oil on blades haha
happy days

August 56 Sticki :-)

ah vintage year!!! you are one month older than me!!! so you were the youngest in your school year and i was the oldest!!

No Melchi . . . but I did have them serviced there!
It's a lot less bovver with a hover Scottish!
You can come and oil my blades anytime Sandra . . just to keep your hand in . . lol!

Ho ho, Sticki! I am Sept 1st, and just scraped in, so I was very, very young!!! (long before you both, of course!)

doesnt that make you the oldest in the school year melchi??

No, because when I took the 11+, they allowed me to take it with the class I'd been put in on transfer at 6 (we'd moved) So I was always the youngest, only "catching up" in the summer holidays. It seemed so important then! Now, with gap years and everything, age hardly matters at all. My daughter was 21 when she went to University (mind you, she 's 29 now, and still there!!!)

i moved up a year at one point, i think because my own class was a bit full?? but i stayed in the top class for 2 years before going on to senior school. im sure i did a 10+ as well as the 11+???

So many local authorities had different ideas. Perhaps you had to take it just because you were in the class! My sister was in the top juniors for two years but her birthday isn't until Sept!2. I was just lucky. I was in Middlesex, and they specified that entrants had to be 11 "by Sept 1" so I scraped in.

lol...all this discussion from old lawnmowers. You're just kiddies then. The Boom year was 1957. I was born a while before that and couldn't start primary school until I was 6-1/2 because my birthday was in Feb. Strange rules about age back then...now they're off to JUNIOR kindergarten at 4...I had a pretty good childhood before I had to be regimented...think that's why I've been the old rebel without a cause. Couldn't have timed it better...my adolescent years were the 60's!! Peace and Love, y'all.
I had an old Husquavarna that I found in a yard sale...could never get it adjusted properly and wow...what a workout. My mower (gasoline) needs a new sparkplug wire and the grass is getting tall... I'd be pushing up daisies if I tried doing all the grass I have here with a push mower....argh.... Then again you'd be hard pressed to call what I have LAWN. cheers.

I was born in 1947, Lorilyn!

no offense meant..Melchisedec.

None taken lol!! My comment looks a bit abrupt - sorry, wasn't meant to be! :-))

We were both born in the first half of the last century...It makes me feel Methusela-ish. lol..not to worry, Mel.

Well - Methuselah and Melchisedec go quite well together!

;-)

just seen comment muddy haha, not sure how to take that lol :o))

Would be a shame to let that expertise with a brush and oil go to waste Sandra . . . and I hate having to do that job too . . lol! :-)