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I lived with my mom n dad in Fallindale Road. Dad lived there until a few weeks ago having lived there from 1953. We 4 sisters went to the wonderful Stanville Road School where we had an excellent education. Its downside was the teachers used to hit us and I remember my legs being slapped because I'd gone home at lunch time without permission. One teacher was very cruel and used to hit us on the back of our heads or throw board rubbers at us. The toilets were in a concrete block outside, freezing and damp. The school is unchanged as far as we can see from dad's house. We are going to ask dad about the POW camps nearby as he will know I'm sure.
 
Dianad said:
I lived with my mom n dad in Fallindale Road. Dad lived there until a few weeks ago having lived there from 1953. We 4 sisters went to the wonderful Stanville Road School where we had an excellent education. Its downside was the teachers used to hit us and I remember my legs being slapped because I'd gone home at lunch time without permission. One teacher was very cruel and used to hit us on the back of our heads or throw board rubbers at us. The toilets were in a concrete block outside, freezing and damp. The school is unchanged as far as we can see from dad's house. We are going to ask dad about the POW camps nearby as he will know I'm sure.
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The teachers sound dreadful.
 
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New to forum so enjoying comments about Sheldon and George V playing fields..such big open space it seemed then pitches into the distance ......good memories
 
Dianad said:
I lived with my mom n dad in Fallindale Road. Dad lived there until a few weeks ago having lived there from 1953. We 4 sisters went to the wonderful Stanville Road School where we had an excellent education. Its downside was the teachers used to hit us and I remember my legs being slapped because I'd gone home at lunch time without permission. One teacher was very cruel and used to hit us on the back of our heads or throw board rubbers at us. The toilets were in a concrete block outside, freezing and damp. The school is unchanged as far as we can see from dad's house. We are going to ask dad about the POW camps nearby as he will know I'm sure.
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thanks dianad any memories your dad has of those POW camps would be of interest to our members


lyn
 
New to this forum, and have a cheeky question to ask;
does anyone have any pictures pre 2000's of the Arden Oak pub? or know where I could find/get any from?
I have desperately scoured the internet to no avail, would anyone be able to help?? trying to find some past and current pictures to put in a memory book for my grandad.
 
oldMohawk said:
Two on a tandem, trolleybuses, wires in the sky, and wartime white bands still on street lamps at the junction of Arden Oak Rd and Coventry Rd in 1950.
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Now a grey bus and there's a pub on the corner.
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Ami.Martin97 said:
New to this forum, and have a cheeky question to ask;
does anyone have any pictures pre 2000's of the Arden Oak pub? or know where I could find/get any from?
I have desperately scoured the internet to no avail, would anyone be able to help?? trying to find some past and current pictures to put in a memory book for my grandad.
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oldMohawk, your 1st pic (post #669) brings back memories, we lived by there in Goldthorn Avenue 1935-1939. That was known as Tigers Island (why I don't know) and was the trolley 'bus terminus, as kids we used to swing on those willow trees. Happy days. Eric
 
Ami.Martin97 said:
New to this forum, and have a cheeky question to ask;
does anyone have any pictures pre 2000's of the Arden Oak pub? or know where I could find/get any from?
I have desperately scoured the internet to no avail, would anyone be able to help?? trying to find some past and current pictures to put in a memory book for my grandad.
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i have posted you one on post 668

lyn
 
We lived in 175 Whitecroft Rd. Mr/Mrs Lewis were our neighbours on the right hand side. We moved there in 1965 and then moved to Marston Green in 1972. Mr L was indeed a taxi driver and he took us out in the taxi a few times. I remember during the summer months if me and my brother were playing in the garden, Mrs L would bring us home made lollies!
 
OldBrummie said:
Remember the Scout Hut as I was with the 298th for a couple of years 1954-55. Still had contacts up to a couple of years ago. OldBrummie
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Interestingly that is not the later scout hut but the original one. The new one was further down in its own fenced compound. I helped dismantle it on what is now Gilbertstone recreation ground and also with its reconstruction.
I had great times in that old hut and we played Wide Games on the George the Fifth park. We also camped in York Woods and pulled the loaded trek cart there and back. St. John's ambulance taught us our medical badge on several visits. I was patrol leader of the Kingfishers and map reading was our particular skill.
I loved the Silvermere scout group. It might have been a year or so before you OldBrummie. I lived in Bray's road then. My parents are buried in St. Giles church.
 
Bookworm said:
I helped dismantle it on what is now Gilbertstone recreation ground and also with its reconstruction.
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My understanding from the group history notes that I have is that the original hut was ex-Army anti-aircraft situated at the Yew Tree. It would be nice to be able to record more precise details.

Potted histories of 298th Silvermere Group here.
 
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Spargone said:
My understanding from the group history notes that I have is that the original hut was ex-Army anti-aircraft situated at the Yew Tree. It would be nice to be able to record more precise details.

Potted histories of 298th Silvermere Group here.
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Hi Spargone.... The original hut I refer to is the stand alone one you can see in the field. Where that came from I do not know but it was substantially built. I spent most of my time in scouts in that hut.
Later a new much larger hut was erected in the fenced compound you can see. My remembrance is that was ex military from near Gilbertstone. When this was opened there was local news coverage with tv cameras.
This is, of course, over sixty five years ago now so exact details might be a little vague. I am delighted to see the group still thrives.
 
I realise that this is going off at a tangent but I read in the newspaper this weekend that in the late C19th or early C20th there was a Clarion House in Sheldon, possibly linked to a cycling club. Has anyone any ideas/information about this?
 
There sems to have been a quite a few (Socialist) Clarion Cycling Clubs around the country, at least three in Birmingham:
Birmingham Premier
Birmingham Aston
Birmingham Selly Oak
Tthere were also various clubhouses called 'Clarion House' around the country. If there was one in Sheldon I would expect it to be on or near the Coventry Road. The Sheldon Cafe was popular with cyclists and that was on the Coventry Road.
 
robert said:
As mentioned The one on sheaf lane was the March Hare (supplied them with meat pies in the 60s) The one by the cinema was the seasprey
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This was my Grandma’s shop. Was a chippy and later also a steak bar I believe. My mum and her family lived above the shop in the 60s.
 
Bookworm said:
Interestingly that is not the later scout hut but the original one. The new one was further down in its own fenced compound. I helped dismantle it on what is now Gilbertstone recreation ground and also with its reconstruction.
I had great times in that old hut and we played Wide Games on the George the Fifth park. We also camped in York Woods and pulled the loaded trek cart there and back. St. John's ambulance taught us our medical badge on several visits. I was patrol leader of the Kingfishers and map reading was our particular skill.
I loved the Silvermere scout group. It might have been a year or so before you OldBrummie. I lived in Bray's road then. My parents are buried in St. Giles church.
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Hello, our parents ashes are also interred at St Giles Church under the clock. We lived in Fallindale Road and went to Stanville Road School. We 3 girls were married at St Giles Church.
 
Hi I was very good friends with Barbara C and we got into all sorts of scrapes….say no more. She was much braver than me and older, but it was an awful shock to hear she had died. I’m not sure who Alan is though. I married a local lad who lived in Mapledene Road. We were married for nearly 40 years, but he sadly died in 2012. We grew up together and spent a lot of time in the playing fields, just hanging out with a group of others of a similar age.
 
Just stumbled across this post - and this forum. I lived in Brays Road from 1954 to 1962. First 8 years of my life. I remember The Baggies, the rope swing, Singleton's shop etc. Major nostalgia.
 
John Ravenscroft said:
Just stumbled across this post - and this forum. I lived in Brays Road from 1954 to 1962. First 8 years of my life. I remember The Baggies, the rope swing, Singleton's shop etc. Major nostalgia.
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Hi John.. I must be a few years older than you (born late 1943). Lived the first 21 years in Brays Road. Our house was number 90, in what we called old Brays Road, before the development down to the Radleys after the war. Went to the Comp. and worked part time as an errand boy for Shepherds the grocery shop next to Singletons.
As you say 'Major nostalgia' with unlimited access to open fields and places and, of course, first loves and losses. I have sat in the back row of the Sheldon cinema! I do not view those times through rose tinted glasses, there were hard times and cold winters but I think myself lucky and would not have had it different.
 
Bookworm said:
Hi John.. I must be a few years older than you (born late 1943). Lived the first 21 years in Brays Road. Our house was number 90, in what we called old Brays Road, before the development down to the Radleys after the war. Went to the Comp. and worked part time as an errand boy for Shepherds the grocery shop next to Singletons.
As you say 'Major nostalgia' with unlimited access to open fields and places and, of course, first loves and losses. I have sat in the back row of the Sheldon cinema! I do not view those times through rose tinted glasses, there were hard times and cold winters but I think myself lucky and would not have had it different.
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Hi, Bookworm. I guess the flats my family lived in were part of the post war development you mentioned.

The Sheldon cinema was my first experience of big screen entertainment. Captain Video movies at the Saturday matinee. I remember asking my sister what the cinema was like before my first visit, and she said it was like a huge TV without knobs to twiddle. :)

I was too young for back row snogging back then. Now I'm too old.
 
John Ravenscroft said:
Hi, Bookworm. I guess the flats my family lived in were part of the post war development you mentioned.

The Sheldon cinema was my first experience of big screen entertainment. Captain Video movies at the Saturday matinee. I remember asking my sister what the cinema was like before my first visit, and she said it was like a huge TV without knobs to twiddle. :)

I was too young for back row snogging back then. Now I'm too old.
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Hi John... Yes I remember the flats. Opposite the GPO sports ground. High rise (two storeys). I used to deliver groceries there.
When we first lived there the buses stopped at the Swan Yardley. I started my early education at Church Road School... and had to walk there and back. Later at Lyndon Green in Wychwood Cresent, much nearer! The years after the war were lean and hungry. It was a decade of austerity, but we had a freedom unknown to later generations and memories of a simpler and happier early life.
 
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