Recent content by Ladywood 2

As soon as I seer the hills, I get Elgar's Allegro for Strings in my head. Possibly linked to Ken Russell's film on Elgar which you can get on YouTube.

As a child I often climbed up to Worcester Beacon, with my sister, we had an aunt who lived in Gordon Terrace on the southern end of the Malverns, Aunt Minnie lived in a two up two down house and had a huge mountain ash tree in her garden. On climbing the nearest hill we could see the beacon...

interior of St. Peters Church

This photograph is from the playground of St. Peters school, showing a side entrance to the church.

I've seen a program where a man named as Eddie Fewtrell, was the center of the dispute,

No accounting for taste

My sister and me, used to eat ovaltine in its dry state.

I remember being taken to the Monument Road Child Welfare Centre when I was four, to be weighed,measured for height and given orange juice and castor oil.

I think there was a real shoot out between a Birmingham criminal gang and the Kray brothers gang from London around Snow Hill.

Two students from my year went on to the Royal Acadamy.

The students to the Graphic Design and Illustration and Printmaling course, [which was over two years], came mostly from Bourneville and Sutton Coldlfield Art Schools, and a few from the Coventry area.

Churlish not to say thank you

I think Birmingham Art School taught drawing painting and sculpture in the early sixties. It's principle was Christopher Hawes. The Photography department was located at Great Barr, and the Graphic Design and Illustration and Printmaking Departments were located over a car showroom on the corner...