Recent content by Barbara Tarbuck

the photos are all at the back of Aldridge rd Streetly 1948 ~ 52. One of Bar Beacon

Depends what year you worked at the butchers. In 1963 one of the 'girls' from the salon went out with one of the butchers. Her name in the salon was 'miss Louise' but her real name was Carol.....not sure if this information fills a gap.

I remember Birchfield Rd in the 60's. I used to work at Maison Celeste. A hairdressing salon. We used to play jokes on the new apprentices, sending them next door (a hardware shop, for a glass hammer or ' along weight' (wait!)) Further to the left was a cafe where we used to go for a lunch or...

To add to my previous account about the sandpit at the back of our house in Streetly. One day my brother (who was 6 years older than me) and his friends found some gelignite (in the 1950's) and they put them in some of the pepper pots that had been thrown on the edge of the quarry by Streetly...

Wow! I haven't signed in for sometime and cant resist adding my thoughts about Greys store. In the 1950's mum used to take me to their sales. She would 'rummage' while I told to 'hang on' to the back of her coat. She purchased gloves, scarves and I am sure many more bargains. Lewis's was another...

great to have feed back about Aldridge rd. I left there when I was about 7 (1953....dont tell anyone!!) I (with my elder brother) used to walk from Kingstanding (we caught the bluebird bus) to Maryvale school, old Oscott Hill. It was a Roman Catholic school and I remember the little chapel and a...

Thankyou Lyn for taking the trouble to post up to date pictures of Hawthorne House. Certainly looks different. Looks like a wedding venue

That would be great. Thank you. The person that was over the nursery nurse was a Ms. Richards or Richardson. She was scary. Short, straight hair cut round like a bowl. We had to be in by 10pm. I remember going up the fire escape, with others, and climbing through a window that we had left open...

Hello. I used to live in Crowsnest Dairy in Aldridge Rd Streetly in the 1950's. It was right opposite the Printing works. (it may have still been the tin tabernacle at that time. I lived there until I was 7 years old) We also lived in Foley Rd West. I used to catch the Harpers bus to school in...

Hawthorne House Hampstead. I was training to be a nursery nurse in 1962. It was a residential Home for children under 4years of age. Staff lived in the nurses home. Some of the parents used to visit the children at weekends but most were orphans. I used to look after them (someone cooked their...

Looking through an old school report I now know the school was called Streetly county secondary school

as a new person on the site I am not sure I am using the site correctly. I am wondering if anyone remembers the school in 1961? I do have a picture of around that time. The school was new when I started. It was magical (I hated school!) with science labs, an art block etc and the fact that it...

Anyone remember Fr O'Healy/Paul Chamberlain or the Gillett family or the Mc Carhill family

Sorry, I am doing this all wrong due to my limited IT skills. This is about wacadon dairies King standing branch. I do have more and am working on how to add them Edit, other photos are here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/wacaden-dairy-and-crows-nest-dairy.55955/

Sorry, I am doing this all wrong due to my limited IT skills. This is about wacadon dairies King standing branch. I do have more and am working on how to add them