Recent content by Dianad

Hi I was very good friends with Barbara C and we got into all sorts of scrapes….say no more. She was much braver than me and older, but it was an awful shock to hear she had died. I’m not sure who Alan is though. I married a local lad who lived in Mapledene Road. We were married for nearly 40...

Hello, our parents ashes are also interred at St Giles Church under the clock. We lived in Fallindale Road and went to Stanville Road School. We 3 girls were married at St Giles Church.

Thanks for more memory sharing. My brother in law went to work at Holdens too as a chemist. He learned his skills in the lab there and went on to become a chemist in Sullom Voe in the Shetlands. He was there during the Piper Alpha helicopter crash and worked on the platforms. His name is Peter...

The teacher who hit us over our heads became a mayor. Isn't that ironic.

Thank you for replying. It's likely to have been that grocers as I think it was on a corner. My aunt and uncle were very soft and kind. They allowed so many people to have things on tick that they lost the business and had to leave the shop. My uncle worked at DAF afterwards and my aunt became a...

I lived with my mom n dad in Fallindale Road. Dad lived there until a few weeks ago having lived there from 1953. We 4 sisters went to the wonderful Stanville Road School where we had an excellent education. Its downside was the teachers used to hit us and I remember my legs being slapped...

I don't know. Maybe. We used to go to the pantomime at the Hippdrome every year courtesy of Uncle Cecil's factory. We were given paperbag with toffees. We loved to put 6d in the slot and get the opera glasses. We thought we were the bees knees.

I worked at the Post Office Supplies depot in Third Avenue for many years. In the mid 1980s the payroll was stolen and the thieves ran down the gully to their getaway car in fourth avenue. we used to walk to a lovely park by East Birmingham Hospital where we would eat our lunch.

A lot of my family lived around Saltley and Waswood Heath. My auntie, Liz, ran the greengrocers by the no 8 bus clocking in point, Saltley. She used to make and sell the most delicious toffee apples. She had a large silver till with the houses parliament on it. She lived with Len who played the...

That's brilliant thankyou. I've been digging around as I've been given a box with my mom's birth certificate and marriage certificate and have addresses from which I can begin to piece some history together. Sadly mom died in 1985, but dad is still with us. Alive and kicking is how he'd describe...

Thanks for this. We cannot ask dad as he's stuck in a care home without visitors since last March. As soon as we can visit him, we can find out more. I lived at Gt Brook St when I was born in 1950, then we moved to Sheldon, where dad lived until going to the care home last year.

My mom and dad lived at 5/93 Nechells Park Road, they were Horace and Florence Howkins. I think they lived with my grandparents Richard and Elizabeth Howkins. My dad was a brikkie and mom was a polisher. They married at St Clements Church, Nechells in Dec 1948.

My mom, Florence Keats was born at 5 back of 96 Great Russell Street to David and Annie Keats. He was a metal polisher. They had many children, with names such as David, George and Annie