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‘Birmingham’s Front Line’ – biographical account of policing in the CID, in the West Midlands Police 1976 to1989. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1445657872/

Posted on September 13, 2019 by bostinbooksblog

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‘Black Over Bills Mothers – A Storm Is Coming’ – a historical crime fiction book which covers the period between 1943 and 2004. The book is set in Birmingham, Worcester, Northern Ireland, California USA, and Cyprus. It weaves together factual incidents as well as music and culture into a story involving serious and corruption. There are no ‘noble causes’ in this book and no heroes. (57 reviews) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HQN8Q2W/

The Authors – Michael Layton QPM joined the British Transport Police as a Cadet on the 1st September 1968 and, after three years, was appointed as a Police Constable in 1971, serving at Birmingham New Street Station. In 1972 he transferred to Birmingham City Police, which amalgamated in 1974 to become the West Midlands Police, where he eventually reached the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1997. Whilst much of his service was spent in the Criminal Investigation Department for the next six year’s he was responsible for the policing of half of the Borough of Walsall. On retirement from that Force in 2003 he went on to see service with the Sovereign Bases Police in Cyprus, and then returned to the British Transport Police in 2004, initially as a Detective Superintendent (Director of Intelligence), and then in his last two years as the Operations Superintendent at Birmingham, where he continued with his passion for combating football violence, until finally retiring again in 2011. In the January 2003 New Year’s Honours List, he was awarded the Queens Police Medal for distinguished police service. He is the author or co-author of a number of factual books, predominantly police-related, as well as historical crime fiction books. Michael is also a self-employed consultant engaged predominantly with crime and community safety issues and is a resident of Bromsgrove. He is a member of the British Transport Police Independent Advisory Group in the Midlands area, and the British Transport Police History Group. Stephen Burrows joined West Midlands Police in 1983, working in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Walsall. He performed a wide variety of roles in ranks up to and including Detective Superintendent. These included uniform command, complaints and discipline, (including internal and cross-force enquiries) and CID command, (including Serious Crime Investigation, Child Protection and Head of Intelligence). In 2002 he transferred to Warwickshire Police as Chief Superintendent (Area Commander), and then became Detective Chief Superintendent, (Head of Crime) for the force, a post held for five years. He was trained as Senior Investigating Officer, in Kidnap command, and all levels of Firearms Command amongst other skills. He retired in 2013 following thirty years’ service, eleven of which were spent at Chief Superintendent rank. He currently works for The Home Office in the field of Communications Data. Stephen is the co-author of a number of factual police-related books as well as a number of historical crime fiction books. He has recently also released his first solo fiction book.

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Top Secret Worcestershire – a small sample

George V1 at Malvern 1944

Testing at Defford – John Young

Defford

Defford 1957

Laboratory at Malvern

Defford Radio Telescope

Champagne after a test flight

Queen’s flight at Pershore

pershore Airfield

Lancaster over Croome

‘Just Jane’

‘Just Jane’

Peter Clarke receiving his copy of Top Secret Worcestershire from Steve

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The Bromsgrove Standard August 2018

Presenting copy of Top Secret Worcestershire to Faith Reader as a thank you for her help in allowing us access to material held by the museum for research and photos

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Top Secret Worcestershire

The history of Malvern, RAF Defford, Pershore Airfield and The Cold War in Worcestershire

Black Over Bill’s Mother’s

An epic family saga set in Birmingham, Worcester, Ireland and America covering seven decades. Gangsters, Bikers, Police and bags of nostalgia combine in a thrilling tale

Ta-Ra-A-Bit, Our Kid

A little book of slang used by Brummies

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