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Another teacher I remember when I was in Junior 3 was Miss Hammond - who to my young eyes was very tall and very 70s glamorous, but also a very good teacher. Yes, the caretakers were the Bowes, their son was in my class... Kevin?

Andrew Wheway was a friend of mine at St Stephen's...

I asked my father if the winter of 1947 had been as bad as I had seen it, and the thaw (there is a photo of a train going through New Street up to its axles in water). Dad gave me a pitying look. "Where was I?" He was in the Army in Palestine as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire...

Mr Bartrope (Harry). Taught me in Junior 4 in 1972-73 - a Geordie, I recall. Was very fair, and encouraged me to stretch myself. We thought he was a rather groovy teacher by comparison with the others!

I left in 1973 to go to St Philip's in Edgbaston; I was the only one to go there.

Very many thanks - indeed, our house was just off the right hand side of this shot. as the road began to bend round towards Tew Park Road. However, a friend and colleague of my Dad at Lloyds Bank in the Rotunda lived in the house at the top of the cul de sac at left.

Very old thread, but I lived in Reynolds Road from 1962-73 (My parents lived there from 1952) It was a great place to live and grow up in; the Jones family on one side and the Goughs on the other. I went to St Stephen's in Nineveh Road from 1966.

I was there from 1967-73; Head teachers were Clancy and Flanagan; my class teacher in my final year was Mr (Harry) Bartrope who was a shock to us all as he had long hair and a bandit moustache! But he was the nicest, kindest of teachers I could have hoped for who did what the best teachers...