Recent content by Roger Blower

Well they do say every day is a school day - I didn't know or remember the change to Houses being the suffix for form years! I agree with Malvernian re the odd date breakdowns. Hi there Roger P - hope you are well.

I can only add my two penny worth based what was happening in 1961 - my first year at Lordswood. The forms 1N, 1F, 1J and 1S were based on age groups - the eldest of the year 1N and the youngest 1S. I believe the groups were split on 3 months of birth dates basis. My own form, 1S, were the...

Colin - I think I can add a few more names for you. Being a 5 Alpha member, I knew some but not all of the 5A form. Centre of back row is Ray Powell. On 2nd row next to Steve Williams is Chris Smith and then Bill Saunders. Second from right is Ray Brassington. Hope that helps fill some gaps. I...

Just caught up with this thread and agree that photo is fantastic. Difficult to be definite but that looks like an E type Jag parked outside what from memory was a newsagents shop. We lived at 2/64 in the early fifties which from distant memory was just about where that van with the back doors...

Back in the 60's and 70's there was a company called Munns Bros in Camden Street who processed black and white and colour film for lots of the Birmingham chemist shops and I think also processed for Boots? I had a pal who worked there and recall having plenty of rolls of Ilford FP4 film...

Saturday nights, mid sixties and early seventies were not complete without a visit to the pie stand at Snow Hill before getting the night service bus out of town. Favourite was the famous "Cow Pie". Memories do get distorted but the taste was something special - the only thing that comes near...

Oh boy that was a lot of years together - I'm really sorry for your loss. Roger

Hello Marguerite - Fantastic to hear you've found this site and have decided to post a response! It's been long time - 60 years - since we all split up and went off to our respective secondary schools. I hope you have kept well and had a happy life. Lovely memories indeed!

I bought a Suzuki 100 from Copes in 1971 - YHA94J - we must have just missed each other Vic! Passed test at Quinton test centre on the Suzuki and then bought a new Honda CB350 from ?Sherwood motorcycles (think that's correct) - they were in Shirley, tiny showroom from memory but were Honda...

The Kings Head was a convenient meeting point for Lordswood old boys and girls. I left school in '66 and used to meet up with a mix of those who had left and a sprinkling of 6th formers who had stayed on. One of the reasons it was popular was the "Bierkeller" downstairs in the old cellar at the...

Nice one Diane - sounds like a scene from "Carry on Nurse" !! My mother trained at Summerfield during the early 60's. Not sure whether her training was for SEN or SRN - is there a difference?

Me too - spookily 70 years ago this very day - 30 August 1950!

Good morning and Happy Birthday Steve! Great to see these old school pals chewing the fat. Last time we ran in to each other was at the "Chalet", the back room at the Talbot pub opposite the school main entrance - would have been early seventies. Hope you are well and enjoying your birthday. We...

Good morning Taffy T - we did our time together albeit in different streams. All of the names you mention are familiar, the only ones I'm in touch with are Paul Turley and Dave Shelton. Paul is aware of the forum but hasn't posted. I'll text him and let him know you've arrived!! I was the baby...

I spent my working life (1966 - 2015) in the print and packaging trade and certainly in my early days, James Upton were well known in Birmingham as one of the big players. As a music fan I was always fascinated by their involvement in the record business as being a major supplier of record...