Recent content by JustJan

I do hold the copyright of this photo as I am holding the original publication in my hand. Lyndhurst school magazines, 1974 & 1976.

I do have quite a stock of photographs of the school. I do not have the copyright of these pictures and will happily credit the publisher.

I think the dates on the poster are 3rd and 10th of October, That makes it 1971 or 1976 as the parade was always on a Sunday afternoon. The poster is likely promoting future events so possibly the parade was just before then. It would not have been in August or early September as the units close...

The Division colour party! They look like they are waiting for the parade to start, as the flags are resting on the ground and not in their holsters. The vicar and commissioner would join this group for the entire division to march past, ‘eyes left’.

These are brownies and guides from all over Erdington Division at their annual parade.

It was girl guide event, not scouts. The guides did not have a marching band so the scouts played and led the parade, but the scouts I don’t think marched at this event unless they were in the band.

Hi thank you for the information. I did push a camera under the hoardings once after being denied entry and I must try and find the photos I took. If only I knew a drone owner back then!

Hello I am new to this site but I have a passion for the history of my primary school Lyndhurst and could answer some of the questions on here. There was another headmaster after Mr Sinclair named Michael Arkinstall. He published a few books and I have some of them. There was a school uniform...