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Hi , I don’t recollect having any close relations that would have been a schoolteacher at Sheldon - could be related somehow though- it’s quite a rare name!!

Hi Vivienne , Well he was certainly very tall and a bit on the lanky side but not sure if he was ever a Church Warden (not impossible as I was very young then and he could have done a variety of different things)

Hi Dave Well not to my knowledge (unless he did it in his spare time). I was only about 10 when I knew him but from what I can remember he was a builder. He was my Grandfather’s brother. My father bought my Grandfather’s house off him in Yardley Fields Rd in 1960.

Hi Batmadiv Just found this thread about Stechford . Fred O’Nions was my great Uncle - I grew up in Stechford , lived in Yardley Fields Road from 1960 - 1979, Nick O’Nions

Hi Vivienne , I wonder if that was what was commonly known as Moseley Secondary Modern which backed onto Moseley Grammar (where I was from 1969 - 1974)

Amazing isn't it - children these days really don't know what they're missing!!

Yeah, had a spud gun too - also a Sekeden gun - used to fire little gold coloured balls (which you had to buy so dried peas worked just as well!!)

Without trying to be too critical , my poor Dad would be turning in his grave at the way people's priorities have changed these days . Moaning about heating costs (which I am actually with you on by the way!!) and ony heating 2 rooms in the house - yet you can afford Netflix and Amazon Prime!!!

Quartermaster's stores - he landed on the Tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam! Ten Green Bottles - was a patrol leader (squirrels ) with 261st at Stechford - the scout hut was only a few metres from the bottom of my Garden - anybody remember Bob and June Dad - Bob rab the scouts and June ran...

Hi everyone , does anyone remember a lad called Kieth Bick , good friend if mine then , he would have regular skating lessons at Silver Blades and used to compete (not sure exactly in what form) - he would have been 11 in 1969 - lost touch with him when we all went to different schools after the...

Hi Weoley , my Mum regularly acted in and directed plays at the Hippodrome during the 60's and very early 70's - they probably knew each other!!

Hi Josephine , you are a few years older than me - I went to Hudson House in Stechford in 1963 - a girl I used to ride with in my class lived in Lea Village - her mother owned a shop on the end of the row called Gay Styles - was that there when you lived there? I went back to try and find Lea...