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It looks great. I do hope our visitors enjoy the city

I hadn't known that Norma only recently died. She and Nelson were incredible women and their contribution towards the development of female athletes in the area is deserving of wider knowledge. https://birchfieldharrierssportingtales.wordpress.com/norma-blaine-mbe/...

Norma was a brilliant coach and so was Dorothy Nelson-Neal whom we called Nelson. Many happy years were spent under their tutelage although they didn't half make you work hard! I remember Mary Stewart and her brothers along with Tom Cooke. It was a great club to belong to and compete for as a...

Thank you. Can't see the house because it's right at the other end!

This photograph was taken in 1972 for the Birmingham Mail who were writing a feature on athletes of the future after Birchfield Harriers had had ten athletes selected for the Olympic Games that year. The coach is the one and only Norma Blaine who was a hard taskmistress! She's saying something...

Well I'm looking forward to the games. Going to the Alexander Stadium twice next week. I just hope that everywhere is looking lots better than it did two weeks ago when chaos was the one word that sprang to mind.

Does anyone have any photographs of Holland Road Aston? I remember visiting the road in the late 60s. My Grandmother was brought up there in the 1920s. Thanks

My Granddad went to Elliot Street. I have all his school certificates. I love them. He was born in 1908 at No 1.

Thank you Pete. Wonderful stuff.

Number 1 is where I suspected it to be then and not the cafe site. Thanks for all your work folks. Appreciated. The cafe photo is still a great photo! I did go and have a look along there a year or so ago and it appears I was looking in the right place. It is actually just waste ground there...

I saw that one and did wonder. It's a great photo

Thank you so much Vivienne 14 for your reply and for the other threads. That's tonight's reading sorted! Astoness if you do have a photo of 1 Cuckoo Road I would be over the moon! Thank you both

I've just joined and have been enjoying this thread. My 2xGreat Grandmother ran a corner shop from 1 Cuckoo Road for many years. She ended her days in the James Almshouses in Nechells Park Road in 1920. Too long ago for anyone here to remember the shop or the family but I've still managed to...