Recent content by G.Mayes

Thank you all for info about Stevie, I appreciate it. For me it was a trip down memory lane after the concert. I used to deliver newspapers from the George Edwards news agent (Ex-Aston Villa-footballer) in Church Lane when I was at Rookery Road School. Thanks again George - Hannover

Hello there, just seen Stevie Winwood at the Coronation Concert. Does anyone know where he was born in Handsworth? Thank you - George

Hello Richard, sorry for the delay because of Covid and then holidays. On Soho Road I can remember Stodderds, the butchers. My mother shopped at King´s Butchers. I did National Service for two years til 59, after that everything started to change on Soho Road. Tibbits, the greengrocer, was still...

Hi there, anyone out there who was at Rookery Rd between 1949 til 1954? I lived at Douglas Road and my teachers over this period where Miss Myers, Dickie Davis, Wickstead, Franklin, and terrible Mr Griffiths. I did a paper round from Edwards, the newsagent, (Ex Aston Villa footballer). It´s a...

From the colliery behind Watson Pool the coal used to be transported in small open trucks, coming from the pit full of coal towards West Bromwich, coming back on the other side empty. I would like to know where the trucks went to. Was it a canal? It must have gone underground somewhere. Does...

Thank you, Richard, the only colliery I know was behind Watson Poole where we used to go fishing (not allowed). We were coming from Douglas Rd by Handsworth Park which means we were coming from the other side so I am not so sure about the colliery name.

this is correct, because it was so filthy we called it The River Stink. George

Hello Jayell, I am new to the Forum and like to add s.th.: I think you are a bit out with the hermits cave. Going down from Oxhill Road you did not go to Hill Top Farm or as we as kids called The Uplands. You had to go further right through the Bluebell Woods and this hermits cave was right by...