Recent content by David Greet

Whilst he may not have been 'selling' in the accepted sense, both he and his customers must have felt that the method of distribution was illegal given the cautious manner in which produce was delivered and wine collected.

Here's a memory for those who knew Forman's Road in the early mid 50s. My grandfather was an active allotment holder. When the harvest time of year arrived, surplus grown food, rhubarb, gooseberries and much more, was delivered to a man called locally as Ike Jones. He lived in one of the row of...

I only recognize Rev and Mrs Griffiths and had forgotten about Miss Goodall. She was always present.

I was at Waverly Grammar Camp Hill in the late 1950s and lived in Tyseley. My friend and I both had one penny halfpenny tokens for the ride home. We would find someone who had actual cash for their threepenny fare, exchange our tokens for a threepenny bit, then walk down the Stratford Road to a...

Ah, Miss Goodhall, I remembered Miss Agnes Stanley and the Rev Griffiths plus Mr Knight the post master (lay preacher) plus the occasional visit of Rev Jackson of St Johns in Sparkbrook, under which St Bedes was covered. My time was 1950's, I used to ring the bell each Sunday and for a while was...

I have a (not brilliant) picture of the nursery class from around 1911 in which there are both boys and girls but they are separated. Mom never mentioned having been in class with boys. Certainly when I attended in 1949, classes were mixed, but each year had two classes then, I seem to remember...

I attended St Bedes Church on Warwick Road in the late 1950s. On a Sunday morning I used to ring the bell (see the arch at the peak of the front) for the 11am service, then 3pm Sunday School and the evening service which I think was at 6:30pm (I couldn't sing, but was in the choir for a while)...

I've only recently found the site. Brings back memories:-)

My mother, Lilian Powers, attended Greet School from 1912 to 1918. The attached picture is of her class from around 1915. (She is front row, third from left). She always told me that the girls on the front row were there because they had shoes or boots, many of the other children didn't. (She...