Sec mod.I wasn’t very academic in those days, loved sport and hands on cookery and needlework ,I left Brum in 69 but still have happy mems of my school day,s it was a long walk from close to the Raven pub but had friends to walk with, I think being a mixed school was a help even though the lads would always want to eat our cooking skills on the way home, I loved school dinners, except the chocolate concrete and pink custard ,never been back but have googled Hodge Hill and yes still looks the same except for the paintwork ,Happy days ehHi, do you mean HH Girl's Grammar or HH Sec Mod? I went to the latter from 1959-65. Lived on Firs Estate until '63 when my family bought a house 5 away, but rather than attend a school closer to our new home I opted to stay at HH as all my friends were there & it was only 9 months till the GCE's.
Hardly ever go over there nowadays but the last time I drove down Bromford Road I thought both schools looked almost as I remembered them, just much older, although the Sec Mod was painted in dazzling colours.
I'd forgotten the pink custard! But I do remember the sago & tapioca--both looked like frog spawn but we ate them anyway. Not heard anyone mention the Raven since the 60's, but can't recall where it was. Was it on Shard End?Sec mod.I wasn’t very academic in those days, loved sport and hands on cookery and needlework ,I left Brum in 69 but still have happy mems of my school day,s it was a long walk from close to the Raven pub but had friends to walk with, I think being a mixed school was a help even though the lads would always want to eat our cooking skills on the way home, I loved school dinners, except the chocolate concrete and pink custard ,never been back but have googled Hodge Hill and yes still looks the same except for the paintwork ,Happy days eh
More Stetchford, on Hodge Hill Road, on the 55 bus routeI'd forgotten the pink custard! But I do remember the sago & tapioca--both looked like frog spawn but we ate them anyway. Not heard anyone mention the Raven since the 60's, but can't recall where it was. Was it on Shard End?
Just spent a while googling Newport Road, funny how over the years you remember names well but carnt think where they are,also the 28 bus route if I remember rightly,my aunt lived close to the Bagot ( think that was what it was called ,) oops pubs again lol as to pies, think my tastebuds have changed a bit now or maybe I’m just aware of the calories these days , loved them in the good old 60’ and 70’sAh yes I remember now where the Raven was, still is presumably. I'd forgotten it was the 55 route; we always used the 56 as we lived down Newport Road.
Talking about meat pies, I don't eat them very often now but there's a butcher in our village who makes 6 different varieties of pie, big ones, which sell at £6 each & I'm told he sells about 500 a week; people come from miles away to buy them. Its only a small private butcher as well. They go very well with baked beans & gravy!
Hi JeannieI was at Hodge hill from 1959 -1963 anybody else there then
Hi SteveoHi Jeannie
I went to HH Secondary Modern, left about 62 to start at Lewis's in Brum on underwear, even passed exam for Matthew Bolton School of Retail, but only at work 2 months when my Dad got transferred to Hereford with Henry Wiggins, and it was a quite town, no big department stores, and I ended up working in Stead & Simpsons shoe shop for 18m then went to Wiggins myself as office assistant as money was double what I was getting at Steads.
Do you remember Mr Lewis Art teacher.
Can't say I enjoyed my school days because I was a shy nervous person who blushed at everything.
Steveo
All these girls were in my year I am still in touch with second from leftHodge Hill Girls and the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme. Source: British Newspaper Archive. Viv.
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I think you were at the girls school,not the mixed secondry as was mentionedAll these girls were in my year I am still in touch with second from left
No I don’t think they would have let me into the girls Grammer. Definitely the mixed school.I think you were at the girls school,not the mixed secondry as was mentioned
Me neither lolNo I don’t think they would have let me into the girls Grammer. Definitely the mixed school.
Thank you,I always remember those so called sailors wanted me to take the bottoms in, bell bottoms wernt the in thing then ,,thanks againCan’t find anything at the moment Jeannie but shall keep it on my list of searches. Viv.