Recent content by Cheeky71

Hi just thought I’d post some up to date pics of Dixon Road, Cooksey Road, Bolton Road, (ie Bordesley Park Road) The fist one is Dixon Road School on Dixon Road, and where Butler Road South would be

Blimey frying tonight, seriously luck was on your side that day, as you say we didn’t see the risks of playing in very unsafe places, how many times we walked over the burlap sack doors (which were like a trap door on the floor made of wood) in Turners, I think they used them for the seeds/pet...

Hi Lyn I moved to Sandfields Avenue in January 1973 when I was 2, with my brother and sister who are older than me, they told me about how they used play on the foundations of the new houses when we moved in, yeah they were still being built when we moved in, but I have no memory of this as I...

Hi Lyn I expected Peter Cushing to jump scare us but I remember walking up Trinity Terrace past the sinister Holy Trinity Church with my Mom to catch the No44 Bus on the old Camp Hill to see my Nan and Grandad in Acocks Green they looked after me before I started school full time in 1975/6 I...

That sounds like me with me on the new estate playing “tracking” in the late 1970s until the mid 80s with my friends on the estate, the new estate has loads of alleyways that you could run down, before the A45 extension was build from the railway bridge next to Bolton Road there was a bomb peck...

Hi Lyn, the old church you can see in the photo is Holy Trinity Church on Trinity Terrace and old Camp Hill, I am not certain but I think it’s still abandoned, I always found this place creepy as a young kid, it just looked the part of a Hammer film from the 1960s, but didn’t stop me looking at...

I have a photo taken from 1971 from the corner of Dixon Road and Arthur Street looking towards the railway bridge where Bolton Road met Bordesley Park Road, it was taken during the redevelopment of the area, on the left side of the photo you can see some houses still occupied this is what is...

My first school was Regents Park I was in the infants part from 1976 then I attended Dixon Road for short while from September 1978 to January 1979 when I went from infants to juniors then our class transferred over to Regents Park on Arthur Street, not sure why I attended both schools at the...