Recent content by Elaine Ashraf

Thank you everyone for your help.

Dear Astoness, Thank you so much for that information and pics. I will pass it on to other relatives who spent their early life in Grantham Rd.

Thank you for that information Clive. I was born in 1945 but only lived in Grantham Rd for about 6months before we were moved elsewhere. I just wondered what had happened to those large houses.

Thank you. My mother lived at 95 Grantham Rd during the war with 14other people so the houses must have been very large Victorian houses. Does anyone know when these houses were war damaged or demolished?

Does anyone have information on the war bombings in Grantham rd Sparkbrook?

I heard that the dolphin is an intelligent creature and that’s why it was chosen for the school badge. Maybe it was that and the commerce link. Does anyone remember Robert Silk who became an MP? Wonder what happened to him. I would also like details of the reunion in September please.

Hi Christopher I think I am on your reunion list already but I couldn’t go last year. It would be great to attend this year.

Hi Christopher I went to Sparkhill Commercial and have some good memories. The playground was on the roof so we rarely went up there. Playtime was in the yard at the back. It was next to Woollies(now a supermarket). If you were on office duty you had to run errands for the head, Mr Toy. We used...