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You really are a star! The launderette in Station road brings back memories for me. As a Stechford Primary School pupil in the late 50s one of my jobs was to take the family wash in my dolls' push chair to the launderette after school once a week, supervise the washing in the machine and push...

Stars, Thank you so much for the lovely pictures of Albert Road and Stechford village. As a schoolgirl in the early 60s I used to walk the length of Albert Road to catch the no. 14 bus from the Bulls Head to Tile Cross. Your pictures bring it all back to me. Viv

Thanks for the memory of Albert Road. It looks like that in my mind's eye. The lady outside the greengrocer's next to Burrow's grocery shop looks like my grandmother - but a lot of ladies looked like that. Incidentally, the baker and his wife at Holtom's were called Mr and Mrs Hall.

It's a muffin. Very nice cut in two, toasted with bacon and cheese. Heart attack waiting to happen. Delicious.

Definitely a regional thing. In Yorkshire when I lived there they were crumpets but I always knew them as pikelets as I was brought up in Birmingham.

My father was a Canadian soldier and a patient at Marston Green Military Hospital during the war. The padre visited my grandmother's house in Stechford and asked if the family would care to entertain some Canadian soldiers for tea one afternoon. As there were 4 unmarried sisters still at home...

Every pupil in the top junior year took the 11+ exam. I passed in 1960 and went to a girls' grammar school. The exam included IQ tests as well as maths and English. Girls had to pass with an IQ of 120 or so and boys with an IQ of 110 or so. The difference was because there were fewer grammar...

Hello Ewan, When at Kew a few years back a wall poster stated that there was a ship's manifest for every ship entering England. I checked it out and verified a disputed date. Since then such information has been put on the internet courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk. Hope this is of some use. batmadviv

I was a member of the 104th Birmingham Brownies in the late 1950s and Guides from 1960 until I was too old to stay in. Brown Owl was Mrs Potts and the Guide Captain was Vera Greene. We used to meet at the YWCA at the corner of Bordesley Green East and Richmond Road, Stechford. The skills Miss...

Hi Dennis, Re Denton Grove, Did you ever know a family called Workman. I think they lived at no. 2. They all went to Stechford Primary and the oldest 3 matched in age to my siblings and me. They are not on your list on a previous post - probably before their time.

Re NSU Quickly, I bought one in 1966 second hand for £5. It was cream in colour and was a 2 stroke. Every 20 miles or so the plug became sooty and I had to stop, wait for it to cool, take it out, clean it with a wire brush and put it back. It went at a reasonable speed for a young lady who...

I agree that Stechford village was a lovely place to live. The general shop was called Oakley's, run by a husband and wife team. In the second half of the 1960s a shoe shop run by Tony Bowers opened near Oakley's. I cannot remember if it was in Burrows' grocery shop or not. It may have been...

Before 1974. Probably between 1970 and 1974. My sisters wedding reception was May 1974 and it was the Masonic Hall then.

He was a policeman and ended up as an Inspector I think. He used to call in at the Richmond on his way home. He lived near Hay Mills nick at the time which is a pub now.

Yes, thanks Dennis. That is my brother indeed. I'm so glad we don't look alike! I notice how smart everyone on the other picture was. Ordinary working class people used to make an effort when they went out even to the local. How times change.

Could it be one of those knife sharpening contraptions?

To the Manor Born never fails to amuse.

Waiting For God, The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles, The Likely Lads, Dad's Army, anything with Ronnie Barker and anything with Victoria Wood.

Many a family wedding, christening and funeral have taken place therein. Thanks Dennis.

Thanks Dennis. The YWCA is as I remeber it too. We used to walk on the wall if we were early waiting for the doors to open before Guide or Brownie meetings. I wonder how long the lamp outside the Richmond would last these days. What year was the picture of All Saints taken? I notice that the...