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Ecky, I hope you don't mind, but I've taken a copy of this photograph and posted it on the Facebook Group page that I've created for the old school. https://www.facebook.com/groups/8519208996

Charleen. I didn't want to say in my earlier post in case I scared you, but yes the landing was exactly where these figures were seen. Often there was a strange decaying odour from beneath the bathroom floor. We were told that a landlord in the 1800's had gone mad, killed his alsatian dog and...

My parents kept this pub from 1952 to 1956. An M&B house. At the rear was a brick built bottle store and access to the cellar via a heavy double doored steel hatch in the ground. The M&B drays used to backup to the hatch through large double gates and drop the hogs heads on thick rope to the...

Hi, yes quite correct. Lynn Foo was in the same year as me. I remember her shop up Lozells

Please join my FaceBook group for our old school and post your photos there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/8519208996/

I would really like to Download these 2 photos and include them on the Holte/ACS website that I created. Although I doubt there's anybody around now who can identify the people in the photographs. https://holtegrammarcommercialschool.000webhostapp.com/Holtndx.html

That looks like the one on my Website at.......https://holtegrammarcommercialschool.000webhostapp.com/Holtndx.html

ACS and Holte former pupils may well be interested in my Website. Take a look and immerse yourselves in nostalgia. https://holtegrammarcommercialschool.000webhostapp.com/Holtndx.html

My Great Grandfather, William Moses Moody kept The Cock In in the 1930's and early 40's.

Many thanks. At least some of you can remember it; I thought I was cracking up! Or is it just a Senior Symptom?

This weekend just gone, at a school reunion in Brum, I was given a photo of me, taken circa 1968/69 at a restaurant in the city centre, near Snow Hill station, called 'Fanny By Gaslight'. The restaurant was know affectionately as Fanny's. But I can't for the life of me remember it! I can't find...

I have just come across this Thread and it seems to be the only link on the WWW that refers to The Beehive M&B house on Cape Hill Smethwick. I've searched for years for a hit ! Why ? Because I was born in the Beehive in September 1949. My parents Dennis and Kathlyn MOODY ran the pub and used to...

My parents kept the Bromford Inn and always did very well on race days from car parking on the pub's grounds together with the extra trade from beer and bar snacks. - happy days

Sorry I have no more info other than what is posted on my website by the current owner of the material.

Through my Website for Aston Commercial School/Holte Grammar School, I have been contacted by an individual to say that he has in his possession a book entitled "Hood's Poetical Works" published in 1895 and awarded in 1901 as a Prize for Mathematics to a Ms. SILVESTER at Aston Manor Technical...