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Lovely photo, Roger. Yours is also in very good condition. Mine have been in an album since I was at school! I can recognise a lot of the faces in 5Alpha, including yours, but I wouldn't be able to name them. Photos such as these certainly turn the clock back but it's hard to imagine this was...

I remember Paul Turley, Bernard Dooling and Neil Burr! I'm afraid the other names you mention don't ring a bell after all these years. I'd also forgotten that there was a 5th form class with the alpha suffix - hence my strange question! I've attached a further photo, which is of the whole of...

I can't say I remember a go-kart project. I certainly never went over to Handsworth Tech. I seem to recall an old car being restored in the workshop at Lordswood although I wasn't personally involved.

Yes, I was in the September 1961 intake and came in from Summerfield Junior School. Your memory is better than mine and you're right that my surname begins with P - "Roger Parker". I've attached three class photos. One is of 1J, with Form Master Mr Ashby - I'm 4th from the left in the 2nd row...

Those were my recollections of the house colours as well. I remember some of the names you mention - George Foley, Steve Skidmore and Adrian Bolton - although I don't remember what they looked like, not that that would be much use if I bumped into them now. I remember playground fights and long...

You must have been there the same time as me - I was 1961 to 68. I was in Stephenson House, and Form 1J when I started. As I recall, the observatory was finished as a building in 1961, but didn't have a telescope, a somewhat vital accessory. Bizarrely, they were grinding their own mirror for...

I've no idea where he was before he came to Lordswood but if he was a young man at Moseley Grammar then it's possible that he was the same chap. I recall he was middle-aged when he was teaching me but when you are young it is difficult to gauge the age of people much older so I could be wrong...

Very interesting clippings, Viv!

I've dug out the staff list from the 1961 magazine and Harrington was Head of Technical Drawing and Fletcher did Technical Drawing and Woodwork. Fletcher taught me technical drawing and he was was very good. I've attached the staff list from that magazine. Roger

Hi Phil, I think technical drawing was Mr Fletcher when I was there. I'm interested in what else you may remember. I started there in 1961. Roger

Nice photo of the observatory. I've also kept my old school magazines as well but I've not looked at them for years.

I also attended Lordswood Boys' Technical School, and was there between 1961 and 1968. Hills Ltd, of West Bromwich, had been involved in the construction - I know that because my father worked in the drawing office at Hills. Like Roger Blower above, my practical skills turned out to be...

Hi Alberta, On my father's birth certificate (1911) the informant was T M Hardie of 99 Dudley Road (the address of the Dudley Road Workhouse Infirmary). Ten years earlier, in the 1901 census, T Martin Hardie was described as Head, and as Master of Infirmary. That bears out your theory that the...

That information from the LMA is very interesting, Colin, and ties in with the sanitised addresses on my father and uncle's birth certificates. Perhaps it was a national policy at that time? For Dudley Road Workhouse Infirmary, do you happen to know if a register of baptisms still exists for...

Hi ShavedFish49, What you describe seems no different to what my own grandmother did (see my post above) where she went into a workhouse infirmary in 1908 and again in 1911 to give birth to my uncle and my father. These places were workhouse infirmaries and, as Colin B as pointed out, they...

Hi Colin, Thanks for that. I knew that it became Dudley Road Hospital but I wasn't sure when. I assume that when my father was born in 1911 there was still some stigma associated with the place which is presumably why the address of 99 Dudley Road was used. Interestingly, looking at the The...

My father was born at 99 Dudley Road in 1911 - this is the address of the Dudley Road Workhouse Infirmary. I'm not sure whether this is the same as the Birmingham Workhouse - if it's not, then this information may be no help to you :( Like you, I was interested in getting more information so I...

Thanks gee, Thomas Hailstone (who was transported to Tasmania) was my 3g grandfather. His father, George Hailstone, had married a Catharine/Catherine Butler. Presumably, Charlotte Butler was related to Catharine/Catherine Butler?? The Hailstone line is a part of my past that I've only just...

Hi gee, I'm afraid I don't know anything about the Bell Inn at Northfield, but I am descended from Butlers and Hailstones and they do seem to have had quite a lot of interest in pubs. I did a search of trade directories at https://www.historicaldirectories.org/ but I didn't score any hits for...

Thanks JennyAnn, This website (https://www.hunimex.com/warwick/inns-brum.html) also suggests that there was only one Green Man in the Erdington area, at least there was only one in 1874. Cheers, Roger