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There used to be horses in the fields between Hollybank lane and the common and farm buildings at the top of the rise from what is now Chessetts Grove and the couple off shops off the whstscess lane.

The Haunch was located about where Kings Heath School is I think the entrance was a little higher up Haunch Lsne above the shops .

photo's to big for the server oops

Had a walk around the bottom of the garden with my camera

Couple of snaps of garden visitors at various times , some welcome others not.

My Grand mother lived in court 1 born 1874 name gregory

My Grandmother lived in the court yard opposite the preseved back to backs , born 1874 family name Gregory.

Oozell street I believe

The Kardomah Cafes on Colmore Row adjacent to the GW Arcade and the one on the corner of Cannon Street both became Pizza Huts in the late eighties / nineties.

Not been that way for years last time was before Camp junction was altered, in the early sixties on Thursday nights (pay day) used to meet up in the Brewer for a chinwag with some of the lads who worked for the same firm but on different sites throughout the town.

Always hated the ground floor the stink used to make me feel sick, still can not stop sneezing when i am close to people with to much perfume on.

It’s still the same today

I also went there , infants to seniors left Christmas 1959 and was in B D Jones class , the thing I remember about the punishment book was the fact have having to wait outside Miss Carters office to collect it along with the cane and then having to explain to her why you were being punished ...