Recent content by Kathsutton46

The school building on the corner of Guildford Street and Gower Street housed infants and juniors until the late 1930s when buildings housing mixed senior boys and girls were demolished. The boys then went to Gower Street Senior boys, the building which still stands with a roof top playground...

I worked GHS 1962/68. Top floor typing pool, the guys in the computer room used to wear covers over their shoes. The girls working the punch card machines were very glamorous, the entrance to the staff canteen was opposite your glass computer room . Do you remember the suggestion box we used...

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Hello ladies, can either of you identify any of the teachers in the attached photo, which was taken inn1946. I can recognise Miss Bund, Miss Curry, Miss Saul, Miss Player.

How can I stop the annoying bats, distracting me, I can't cope with them.

the photo you posted is not the same Lozells picture House that was bombed in WW2. Your posted photo is of the original Lozells Picture Palace/House situated opposite William Streeet and next door to the Co-op and a few doors from the Bank on the corner of Lozells Road and Birchfield Road...

Interesting your comments about your treatment at GD I left the girls school in1962, my experience was very similar. The Headmistress one, Violet A Organ MA, was only interested in girls whose parents were professionals, even though a large percentage of the girls came from working class...

Attachment #2 Old Birmingham Page 2, photo number 20 is not Terrace Road with its junction with Soho Hill and Hamstead Road it is WREATHAM ROAD.

Attachment #4 Picture 28 taken by Keith Berry incorrectly states houses awaiting demolition Carlyle Road, it is HARTING ROAD, which runs from Lozells Road to Carlyle Road.

It was called Robinsons, on the corner of Lozells Road and James Street. I do believe they had two shops, one each end of Lozells Road, I can only recall the one you describe.

Ha! ha! ha! you can see the plan of the house where I was born on this map, thank you.

No Crowder and Browns was a Car Sales and a petrol station further down Lozells Road.

The shop was called Cowdrills and it was in Barker Street, very close to its junction with Lozells Road.