Hello again, when we left the Kingstanding Rd area, and Cranbourne road school, we lived near the bottom of Calshot rd, Great Barr ? or was that Perry Barr ? Anyway, we went to Beeches Rd school. I remember it quite well, with single storied, wooden clapboard clad sides, and a tall Gymnasium containing thick ropes hanging down, with ties to the climbing bars all round the sides. I loved the huge wooden Horse etc, the polished wooden floors. I'd never seen a place like it before----I can smell that special smell now--as I write about it. For kids that spent much of their free time climbing everywhere, this was paradise. I remember the sloping playground, newly finished in smooth asphalt, where you could race your Dinkey toys down at great speed. NOW !--who can solve a 60year old mystery for me ? One day when we were at Beeches road school, the WHOLE school was uprooted , and made to walk all the way to the Clifton cinema on the Walsall rd, to watch a strange film about gangs of orphanned kids, who lived among the bombed ruins of a major city---I think it was a German one--Hamburg or Berlin. The images of this film, and of us all being escorted by the teachers all that way, along narrow pavements has never gone away. What on earth was that all about ?? what a subject for little kids--Disney it weren't.