Recent content by Diane1947

A corner of Cranbourne Road adjacent to Tansley Road had what was called pig bins. It was more than the household I’m sure that filled them, anyone know what pig bins actually were ? When if ever the Birmingham bin strike finishes we are going to lots of bins one being for left over food etc...

Kingsthorne JMI previously known as Cranbourne JMI school still has an excellent reputation. I think way back then, and I was born in 1947 at home Cranbourne Road there was a pride about looking after your house. You may be dirt poor, and I’m sure many were, but certainly at school no one...

I had an extremely bad fall tripped while hurrying to catch 28 bus corner of Perry Common Road, and College Road when I literally face planked into the gravel pavement. Bus passengers, plus 3 cars stopped. Someone called an ambulance. People helped stem my very bad nose bleed. For a week I...

We know get flooding in Perry Common Road from the stream running from what’s was called Perry Common recreation ground, now has a new posh name, which flows under Perry Common road into Witton lakes. The strange thing is that is where the pelican crossing lights have been installed. When it...

Has anyone any idea of where Western Road patients were buried if they died when they lived long term and had no relatives to bury them . Did two 3 months placements when I was a pupil nurse 1967. 1968. The truth of once you became a patient there you did not get out in most cases was very true...

He definitely went to Cranbourne Road infant and junior school. I sat by him two solid years straight year 3 and 4 before we all went to senior school.. You’re correct about Steve Winwood going to Great Barr Comp, and you had to live the correct side of Kingstanding Road to go, and Atlantic...

I wear 2 aids but can reasonably hear although 1 ear is certainly losing more hearing possibly because ongoing swimmers ear. One of the ways if filling in say the attendance allowance is you need to have help when communicating with people example your GP, hospital, does your hearing make you...

I left DRH 1969 the one tutor I know was going to get married was Miss Wood, very put together both physically and professionally, but I was under the impression she was going to marry someone who was blind. Are you still working Bhap.?

What year was that Bhap?

Reading through the thread i noticed your sister was Christina . I sat behind her I guess in our last year before going to senior school. If I remember she sat next to Richard Reynolds, sitting next to me was Stevie Winwood long before the fame part. She was good pals with Dorothy Thompson who i...

Have you looked at Attendance Allowance, it’s how the loss in your eye has affected your daily life, and if you need help with daily living. If you have another health condition that also affects you it may well be worth claiming. I lost a close friend some years back, and I help her fill the...

My daughter came to us via the care system. We were long term foster parents, and although we were once very far along the adoption route for various reasons it did not happen. My daughter always had contact with her birth mother who unfortunately died in her 40’s. The one thing that struck me...

Thank you Morturn have change it .

Something happened on my iPod, and I have been locked out of my regular email account and my recovery one. Set up a new email, but cannot see how to change it on this forum. Thanks in advance

Definitely Perry Common did not become Small Heath. Living in Perry Common the daftness of the boundaries is at the least complex, and made even more so when the area was regenerated. Take for example we lived for a lot of years opposite the recreational ground on Witton Lodge Road a few yareds...