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As a child I lived in Hall Green,71 Doveridge Road and our neighbour next door but one had four boys so with four of us we were always playing together. My Mum and Aunty Dot as we called their mother were very close friends and her husband Steve, as he preferred to be called was Alf Stevens the...

Hi Keith My last contact was with her at that address. I didn't realise she lived there right up to 2011. We moved in 1995 and I partly lost touch because she got involved with one of these 'cult' like organisations who make people cut off their social contacts. It is a shame and I've always...

My oldest cousin was born at Sorrento Hospital in 1942 on Xmas Eve in the middle of an air raid! My youngest son was due to be born there exactly 50 years later, Xmas too but I had a lovely home birth 19th December instead just over the border in Shirley so one Silhillian in the family. He is...

I am so amazed that Miss Bragger was still there in the 1980s. My sister was at King Edwards Camp Hill for girls but was in the sixth form when I started at Swanshurst and yes she did rub it in that her school was better at everything! Anyway her gym teacher Miss Howard was an item with Miss...

My sister had this treatment as a young child of 5 years and years later went on to study medicine herself at Brum Uni. In 2000 aged 51 she developed thyroid cancer which is a rare cancer unless you were unfortunate to live in Chernobyl! She considered that her unnecessary exposure to radiation...

Does anyone remember the Police phone box near Yardley Wood Station. I used to be fascinated by it thinking someone actually lived in it! I vaguely remember a Bobby wearing a cape opening the little door and using the phone which dispelled that notion! I found a purse with six shillings &...

I am not in touch with anyone and only went to Swanshurst for one year as my parents moved to Middlesex. I am a lttle bit younger so we probably do not know the same people. The fourth year were a right scary lot too when I was in the first year!;) I hope you manage to get it together.

I am sorry it has taken so long to reply. Have you had a reunion? I did go to one many years ago and met Pamela Smith and Lesley ? and some others I have sadly forgotton. I knew Pamela from Chilcote Primary School.

I was only at Swanshurst for one year as my parents moved to London. I remember being in RE with the Head Miss Chorley and I could see out of the window the top of Moseley Grammar in the distance where my twin brother was and thinking I bet it's better than here! It was the first time we'd been...

There should be a classroom picture somewhere but I've only managed to locate this one.

We used to play in the ford down Scribers Lane. Caught loads of sticklebacks in jam jars. We moved from Reddings Lane to Doveridge Road when I was about 2 yrs old. Many halfpenny sweets were purchased at Warwicks, Robert the son was in our class at Chilcote if I remember rightly.

I didn't exactly lose a baby lyn it was a miscarriage and was weird as I remained pregnant with George. My GP was a bit baffled TBH not something that happens very often.The twin had not developed and frankly I was just relieved to still be pregnant as we had been trying for years. I went on to...

The day I was born my Dad had a knock that evening. It was a policeman who said he had to come to the hospital urgently as my Mum may not survive the night. He had to ask neighbours in Reddings Lane to take my 6 year old sister and 3 year old brother.I don't know how he got to Loveday St...

My mother went to Conway Primary School . She was born 1921 so it would have been late 1920s she attended.I had a photo of her in a classroom which I'll try to find. Sadly my dad who only died 2016 aged 94 chucked all our family photos out without asking us. I had two great photos of the tornado...