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The larger on was taken in 1953 We are in fancy dress for the coronation my brother is the Elizabethan gentleman and I am the sugertree fairy on the bottom row third from the right

Hi, The saying is often said when a job that at first appears to be difficult but is not so hard when you think about, it is completed. Arthur Belfour was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. The appointment was suprising and unpopular and many thought he wasn't qualified for the job. So...

Hi. I too went to Waverley and spent two years at Camphill in the early 1960's. l used to travel. from Small Heath by bus and get off and walk up Sandy Lane. It was from the Coventry Rd to the junction of Camphill, Stratford Place and the Stratford Road. The school was on the left facing...

My wife is from Lancashire where we now live. She moved to Birmingham when she got her first teaching post. Shortly after we met we were out walking when I said " Come here I want to hold your Donny". Even now 40 odd years later I still remember the look of horror /fear as I quickly explained...

My Gran used to say " A blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't stop to look at that".

Hi A great picture of the Atlas. My grandad lived next door on Garrison Lane. There was a pair of high wooden gates at the back of the pub and then an entrance into the yard next to the house. It was two up two down plus a tiny kitchen at the back. The loo was out side in the yard and the only...

Hi, There are several newspaper stories on the web 'Earlswood silk knickers'. Earlswood was very important to the Germans and the lakes were highlighted on their maps. They navigated by landmarks and the lakes on a moon lite night were a perfect landmark. Once there they just followed the...

Hi John, I don't know about Digby Park but there were anti aircraft guns on Hay Barn Rec. My father who was in the Home Guard (reserved occupation) was stationed there assisting the gunners. He used to call them " rockets" so l don't know if they were ack ack guns or something else. I was told...

My nan used to say oil tot but I never knew the origin of it and still don't.

We moved from Small Heath to Shirley in 1962 and I had to move from Waverley to a school in Solihull. A few months later boy arrived from Downend near Bristol. He had a very strong West country accent and in conversation with one of the other boys I said I couldn't always understand what he...

It's. Smerrick, Tam'orth and Tan'orth in Arden for me ( and forrid ) in my book.

When l was little and couldn't find an old toy (that had probably been binned) my nan would say , " It's gone west up the new line". A reference to the railway line crossing America. Has any one else come across this saying?

Hi, l am a new member now living in Lancashire. This site has taken me back years. I was born at 53 Heather Road Small Heath in 1948 and attended St Benedict's Road school, the gates of which was opposite the house. We left Small Heath in 1962 when we moved to Shirley. Went to a party and met...

I left St Ben's summer of 1960, I was then in 4a Mr Overed,s class.