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Yane mentioned a Michael Robbins. I have been sifting my memory for why the name Robbins sounded so familiar to me. I don't think I am old enough to recall Michael Robbins, but yesterday I suddenly remembered another Robbins at Perry Beeches; namely Hazel Robbins. I remember her as a pretty...

So sad, and at this time of life it is getting all too often. Thank you so much for giving me this news. I always had a a lot of time for Ethel, and she kept me up to date, whenever I came home on leave from the RN, in the 50/60s. She also used to tease me a lot about another girl I knew, but I...

So this is a group of 1965 pupils! I had left the RN the year before, after 10 years service. In mid 1965, went to the school, one day to see Mr. Edge. I 'd phoned him to see if he would 'referee' for me, as I wanted to join the Birmingham Police. (Policemen were real Policemen then I should...

Hello Jeanette, My 'paper-round' covered both halves of Perrywood Road. I worked at what was Roden's Newsagents, next door to Moyle & Adams grocers. This was in the mid 1950s! I always considered the Calshot junction with Perrywood, as the 'bottom of that long road, as it was downhill! I lived...

Jeanette: I take it you mean the Calshot Road end of Perrywood? As opposed to the Thetford Road end? That was on my paper round in the 1950s! Wow; how time flies! :worried: John

Ah... They didn't have Cross Country running when I was at Beeches. If you couldn't sprint, Mr Caldicott reasoned you couldn't run and that was it. I think that was pretty general in those days, unless you joined a proper running club. I found out I could run longer distances when I finally went...

Hi Jeanette, I didn't intend to give the impression I dwelt on the subject of aging. I didn't, but I had plenty of close calls in my youth; times when my blood ran cold, thinking this was it! So far, so good though! So my apologies if I have cast gloom and doom. I will try harder from now on...

It's great to hear of all you 'young 'uns' getting in touch with one another. I know of many of these places you mention, but I don't seem to be finding anyone from my school years. Maybe going back to the nineteen fifties is a bit too far. Still, I am ever hopeful. Strange though. All those...

My mother always thought Miss Lloyd was a bit of a 'glamour-puss'; mild criticism in those days. But she changed her 'tune', when she heard Marion Lloyd sing. I organised a few reunions in the 1990s, ostensibly for the 1950-54 pupils. I last saw Marion when she came to a couple of those, with...

Frozen Jubblys? Wow! I used to deliver those in the 1960s; when I had just been demobbed from the RN. The Cottage Stores was on my 'round'. After delivering there, I used to nip home for a quick cuppa! Thanks for the memory Penny. John

Hi Mike. I am going back as far as the late 1940s, which is when I started venturing into the City alone! Living in Great Barr, Dunn's was then the alighting point for the Midland Red 118 and 119 buses. My memory isn't perfect, so I guess I could be wrong. I didn't mean Bull Street. I just can't...

I do remember the shops where I too bought stamps. As far as I recall there was an alley right through the city centre, starting next to Dunn's in Corporation Street, down to Dale End and the Jacey Theatre and thence roughly southwards. Part of this route was called Don Street and eventually you...

Mickossie... I noticed you mentioned the Friday Night School Club. That brings back many happy memories. I think that started in 1953-54 while I was at school. I left in '54 and was away from Birmingham for most of '55, '56, and '57, but went to the club once or twice during that time when I...

Ah Michael, No problem. As a matter of fact, I had a good pal in the Argyle & Sutherlands, in Gib when I was there in 1956, so no aspersions on the Army! I was going to sign on for the long haul myself, but met my wife in 1961. The rest is history! Cheers John

Avril is quite correct! Small world Michael. I joined Birmingham Police in October 1965, initially at Kenyon Street. I served 25 years until 'medically cast' in 1990. I was a 'C' Division Dog handler for about 7 years from 1968. We might well have come across each other, as we are around the...

Hi Michael. Okay so I left Beeches in 1954, April in fact, and you wouldn't know me. Still, I wonder if the Operetta you saw was performed by the Kynochs Amateur Operatic Group. I am pretty sure Miss Lloyd was a member of that society. I think the venue they often used was the Highbury...

Hello G. If you'd like, I can elaborate more on this. If you send me a private message I can answer it there. Regards John

This used to be a small fire station during WW2. My father was stationed there for a time, but he had a dispute with the head Fire Officer. Apparently the men were expected to march on the frozen road and the whole squad was falling base over apex. My Dad decided to break ranks, and walk on the...

You might recall Roger Ryder, Ken Wareham and Ralph Pettit then? John Walker

The same place I seem to remember meeting you! :) At Thornhill. I was on the Dog Section at the time, and Ted cost me a brace of high profile prisoners, as he wouldn't let me come in to speak to CID! Happy days. John Walker (Retired 1990)