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Pamela I wonder if we are related at all, my maiden name was Forrester.

I lived at 46, Croft Road in the seventies and my sons went to Church Road school.

Here is a photo of the Shrubbery House.

I lived with my husband and two boys at 46, Croft Road, this was opposite Wroxton Road. This was in the seventies.

I lived at number eleven in the maisonettes, I knew the Deans, Michael and Norman and their sister Margaret and their mom, also Brian Noakes. And many more.

I have been looking for years for information about the Railway Hotel, this is the first time I have ever seen anything about it, I know it was on the corner of Curzon Street and Howe Street and my grandparents and other relatives used to go in there, I lived in Howe Street and my grandparents...

Doctor Sankarraya also had a surgery in Cherrywood Road, Bordesley Green.

Doctor Sankarraya also had a surgery in Cherrywood Road, Bordesley Green.

We bought our first house at 317 Cherrywood Road, 1966, it was opposite Colmore Depot. I remember the shop, it was quite scruffy.

Hello Belinda, I remember all that you have written above, when people had a parcel they had to hand all the sweets to the teacher for the tuck cupboard, because some children didn't have parcels with sweets in so this was only fair. You would really be interested in a book you can get from the...

When did you live at that address, my husband was born and lived at 24 George Arthur Rd and I Lived in Reginald Rd, this was until we married in 1963. The shop on the corner of George Arthur Rd was Bagleys, we are still in touch with Ernie Bagley who was a friend Of my husband.

The headmistress was Miss Urquhart, I think she thought more of her dogs that she always had with her. When I arrived I had platinum hair down my back, she made me have it cut in a pudding basin style, I Remember begging and pleading that I would look after it and plait it, but it fell on deaf...

The routine was always the same, we knew what every meal was going to be, on Tuesdays was cooks day off so we had cold thinly sliced meat, beetroot and potatoes, I can remember going blackberry picking and the cook making blackberry and apple pie. Also bonfire night we had toffee apples. I still...

Lorraine, I too was at Cropwood, I hated my time there, when I arrived I had platinum hair right down my back but they had a barber that used to come once a month and he gave me a pudding basin cut, it was awful. Do remember making a den in the woods behind the school, also if you had a parcel...

Some of the locations used are, the old library, Cannon Hill Park, Central Fire Station, The Old Rep and Moor Street Station and Newhall Street.

Re: sunlamp treatment I too was brought up near Saltley Gasworks, in Reginald Rd. I thought the clinic I went to was in Sheepcote Street for my treatment. I can still remember the horrible smell of the lamp, I went because I always suffered with bronchitis.

Martin Shaw is on in the afternoons in The Chief on Encore. Also loved him in Judge John Deed.

Hello Mikegee, According to Kelly's directory 57 Alum Rock Rd was Leonard Clarke electrical engineer and 59 Alum Rock Rd was Leonard Clarke outfitters, when I lived in Reginald in the fifties/sixties I knew the Clarke family, there were quite a few of them, two of the younger girls were called...

I lived at 25 Greenaleigh Rd in the fifties, Denaby Grove was opposite on the other side with Ravenshill Rd between them. I remember two people called Sam and Peggy who lived in the Grove, they had come from Curzon Street, where they were neighbours of my gran and granddad.