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Hi Wendy. I'm not sure of the year, but it's probably mid to late fifties. I think that the type of bollards in the foreground were still about then. They formed an island in the centre of the zebra-crossing on what was a really dangerous blind bend.

Here's one of my family's Shoe Repairers and Timber Yard on the corner of High Street and Washwood Heath Road. The shop was run by one uncle and the timber yard by another. My Grandmother brought up eight children in the house as well as running the shop. She would go to the market to collect...

Hi David. Yes I went. I got there quite early, and only met one other old boy. It was worth the trip. The essential fabric of the school hasn't changed all that much. There are new bits added on, and some classrooms have necessarily changed use. The metalwork shop is now a domestic science...

I would have probably known your brother. I left St Saviours in 1957. From what I remember we were at the Alum Rock site until we were about nine. We then moved to the Norton Buildings in Ralph Road for our last couple of years. Your brother would remember Mr Brady and Mrs Gill. I was born...

Hi Wendy. I used to live in High Street Saltley and went to St Saviours School next to the Rock Cinema, and to the annex in Ralph Road. My Father told me a story about Reginald Road concerning the builders of the houses in the road. One set of builders started at the Alum Rock Road end, and...

The Comet is no more. I went past it on Friday and it is now a field of weeds.

I think that lencop is right. I remember a story at the time that the Krays tried to move in, but the Fewtrell's repelled them. There were about five or six Fewtrells brothers. All of them fairly tough characters. They also had a collection of 'assistants' that gave them support when needed...

It was the Colin Jones band that played the main ballroom. The act that played in the intervals was the Roy Green Trio. Roy was a very large bloke who could play any type of music. His kilted performance on New Years Eve was a major event. He was a consumate performer. Unfortunately the...

The Tudor Club had four bars in total. The first was on the ground floor, on the left-hand side before going upstairs to the main room. There was another smaller cocktail bar adjoining this first bar. The main Tudor bars were upstairs. There was a long bar facing the main entrance, and...

Anyone remember the Bel Air Club in Castle Bromwich. Formerly known as the Rob Roy Club. Near the old Castle Cinema.

Hi Mewla4. I thought Brown retired about 1961 and Longfellow took over as Head

Hi David. I don’t think that it was a case of being disillusioned. I think that it is the wrong word. I had no preconceived ideas of what life would be like in a secondary school. What I explained was my experience with BGTS, and my view of the teaching staff. If you look at the comments on...

Hi Coerl21. My first love was also at St Saviours. Her name was Anne Hughes from Ellesmere Road at the top of the Rock.

Hi Macca. I join others in thanking you for the pictures. The top right-hand pic on the 15th posting is of High Street, Saltley. I was born in the flat above the shop shown on the left-hand side of the road, on the corner of Gate Street. The shop below was Strutts the Chemist.

Hi coerl21. I was a Saltley-born boy, and like you I attended St Saviours before going to BGTS. We appear to have shadowed each other. You must remember Mrs Gill, Mr Robinson, Mr Brady, etc, and the Ralph Road annexe. I know that it is always a big jump from primary to secondary school, but...

I fully concur with the negative comments made about BGTS. I was there between 57 and 62. My best day was the day I left. There was an endemic culture of teacher-to-student violence throughout the teaching staff, with few noticeable exceptions. This way of life filtered down to the students...

Hi Stitcher. I've just been on a Birmingham Post forum on Brum pubs. There is someone on there that says that the Gilded Cage was on top of Yates Wine Lodge. So I don't think that that was the place.

Sad to hear that Erskine T is no longer with us. Back in the 60's I was one of the DJs at the Locarno. Erskine was always seen as "The Man" by most DJs in Brum. We bought our weekly stock of records from the Diskery where he worked with Maurice. He would always give us advice about what was...

Does anyone remember a club that was close to the junction of New Street and Corporation Street, where the ramp to the Shopping Centre and New Street Station now is. In those days the ramp wasn't there and there was a pretty seedy below-ground pub that they turned into a club. A friend of mine...

Does anyone know what has happened to the Tilt Hammer at the bottom of Alum Rock. It had a fire years ago, and just stood there boarded up for ages. I would have expected it to be knocked down by now if that was the plan.