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Sweenys Sheldon

The buildings where by the entrance to Wagon Lane Park opposite Keswick Rd. The last building was used for changing rooms, on the picture you can just see the concrete base of one building, demolished about twenty years

I used to order from a builders merchant in Farm St, T&W Brough, Mr Wallace Brough a real gentleman.

The V8 engine came from the Acocks green factory, other parts Tysley, Perrybar and Greet

Re: Bier kella I know on several saturday nights we did go to a bier kellar, but singing ein prosit every few minutes got boring so we stopped going.

We cut the ends off tubes. I recently did this with a tube of hand cream got three more weeks use. The amount thrown away is shocking but manufacturers must laugh all the way to the bank.

It could be Scots cycles, when I was fourteen I paid weekly for a racing bike they built it in the shop. It was just opposite the Co op

The one in Oaklands was just inside the Holder Rd gate, just behind it was the putting green. The park keeper wouldn't let you play near the building. My grandfather was I believe the secretary of one somehwhere in Birmingham, as times where hard they had to enforce a one cake only rule with a...

I remember in the late fifties going to a birthday party in one of the four houses that formed part of Hay Mills police station. I think the boy had 7 or 8 brothers and sisters, and that at least one other family was as large. The house was on three floors, there was 4 p[olice flats in Kathleen...

I remember my uncle taking me to a number of cricket matches played on Henry Road playing fields and also Oaklands,in the 1960s and remember a Brian Lloyd who lived in Hay Mills.

In the 1950'ss there was a hot potato man at the top of Carrs lane I think he sold chestnuts as well. I remember in winter people used to stand near his oven to keep warm waiting for one of the buses that started there. I dont think my mom ever bought one from him, because there always seemed...

My friends and I built a trolley, it was mainly the parts of a pram and a plank of wood, steering was by rope. We used to hurtle down the hill at quite a speed, our braking system required a 45 degree turn onto a path leading into a little grove,usually resulting in the trolley tipping over onto...

we rented a TV from Sweeny's I think it was an 18" they gave us Portable free as part of the deal. They had a shop in Sheldon next to whats now Iceland. We always had the same service engineer, and he always turned up at the time we agreed.

The Rover at Woodcock Lane also had a fire crew and they had to suffer a lot of jokes when the brigade from Acocks Green arrived to deal with a fire in Machine tool repair before them. I remember the aftermath of the Solihull fire the insurance company insisted that all wooden desks and...

I was at school in 63 one lunch time I fell sliding on the ice, I have a scar just above my right eye to remind me of how I landed. I was patched up in the secretary's office taken home in the headmasters car. My mom took me straight up to Doctors at the Swan who stitched it there and then.

It was a post office on the Coventry Road with the sorting office at the back with the entrance in Willard Road, and I think one of the Donovan brothers was one of the doctors used by the Post Office.

I remmember the ratch and mail cry as I thought the seller was saying, he had a pitch at the Swan to catch the eleven and fifty eight bus passengers.

I seem to remember Baxters Bolts supplied Rover in the early 70's, especially for Land Rovers.

My Dad was an Engineer and he used to take me and my cousin to the science museum some Sunday's. On one visit the Birmingham Mail or post had taken a photograph of group of people looking at a screw turning machine in action, and in the middle is me with dad explaining the wonders of the...

Thanks Phil. the memories flood back Hay Mills before the road widening. Willie Young's general store, had a tap for paraffin needed for the storm lamps to stop[ the outside toilets freezing in winter. The Adelphi cinema known locally as the flea pit. The Bulls Head, I remember the horse trough...