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The local history collection maintained by Birmingham Reference Library may be interested in your father’s collection.

I’m a veggie these days but in the 60s, returning to Snow Hill station from Wolverhampton my train would get in at 00.30 giving me 30 minutes to catch the 1.00am night service bus. A fast-food catering van outside the station sold Fleur de Lys chicken and mushroom pies and they were a ‘must...

I’m not sure when I started teaching at Ilmington. It could have either January or after Easter 1961. I taught some lessons to Mr Webb’s class. I think Mr Webb took either a 1st or 2nd year class. Do you remember if he was your first class teacher? The only advice the headteacher (Mr Small) gave...

I was at Ilmington from about the beginning of December 1955 until the end of the year. After the Christmas hols I moved to a school in Erdington. Whilst at Ilmington I was a “cottage homer.” I was 13, very nearly 14 yrs old and in a class taught by Mr Roberts who had been in Burma during WW2...

I remember Mr Thompson but I can't remember if we did Law with him or not. Probably not because I left in the Upper 5th. I did General Principles of English Law at Birmingham College of Commerce and have found the knowledge to be very useful since. I didn't stay on for A levels unfortunately...

I remember Miss Chatwin but not as headmistress. I was there from 1956 to 1959 when the head was C Normington Mitchell and Mr Mordecai was deputy (with Miss Chatwin perhaps). The wooden huts where we went camping were at Bell End near Belbroughton. I have school photos for some of those years.

Just a thought. The school buildings were actually clad with cedar - which is amazingly durable

#129 if you left at Easter 1962 you could have been in either 3rd or 4th Year when I was there. I could very well have taken you and your class to the playing field for football. I don't remember taking any classes for cricket, which would have been more seasonal. I lived in Hockley at tte time...

#127 Thanks for replying. You would have known me as Mr Vernon. I regularly took a 4th year class for Civics and refereed a lot of football.

I was at Ilmington Sec Mod Boys from about 7 December 1955 until the end of the term and possibly for a few days at the beginning of January 1956. My family was homeless and because my parents could not look after me I was in Shenley Fields Cottage Homes. Mr Small was headmaster, and Mr Roberts...

Aston Commercial School. The school buildings are still in Whitehead Road, Aston...................During the period 1956-59 the school changed to 11+ entry and some time after 1959 it became Holte Grammar Commercial, and is now Holte comprehensive School but on a different site. Edit. A link to...

Aston Commercial School. The school buildings are still in Whitehead Road, Aston. A beautiful building now used for other purposes. Aston Commercial School was a late-entry (at 13+ and 14+) specialist school that offered a basic 2 year course in commercial subjects including shorthand, typing...