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All brilliant photo's Lyn, and took me back in time to a very different Brum to what we have today. Thank you for all your time putting them on for us all to enjoy...Well done.

I remember it well too Astonian. Every Saturday we kids from the Ladywood area would be at the Lyric to watch Flash Gordon etc., then playing the part all the way back home again.

One of my friends teaches at a private school in Cambridge, and that school has very high achievement levels every year. They have an all girls school, and believe this is the correct way. I went to an all girls school and found there was a great deal more concentration in all lessons. Of course...

Kent Street North was at the top of Lodge Hill. My brother and sister in law lived in a house there. They were nice houses too. Sorry I called it Lodge Hill because it was right at the top, but it was Lodge Road.

We always had stera milk too, it made the best rice pudding in the world. Trouble with it in tea, was it often had skin floating in it.

Hello midlands. I have commented on the Brain family before. I knew a large Brain family who lived in the same street as myself. This however was in a street off Icknield St, although of course only a stones throw from Aston, so there could be a link with the same family.

Hello Alan, I thought you might know the Paynes in Icknield St. I was always taking my stilleto shoes in there to have the heels tidied up. The old street I lived in at that time had cobbles, and they were deadly for my shoes. You are right about the black dirty face of the chap working in...

Shame I have no photo's, just wonderful memoires of skating at Spring Hill Ice Rink on Wednesday nights and Sunday's. A good friend in the Mohawks and some very close friends at the time. Incidentally, I still have the original ice skates.

Lyn, This location thing is interesting, because I never remember having Hockley or Brookfields on our address in Moreton St. What we had was St Pauls Birmingham 1. I worked at Bulpitts and on the office stationery there was no mention of these locations either. Odd isn't it?

Lyn, What a smashing pic of Wimbush's. I remember going to school down Camden St and having Wimbush's Apple Charlottes. However on the caption is says the address is Aston, well it was never Aston this end of Icknield St. I wonder where thay idea came from?

Hello nzl1a1collector. Yes Bulpitts did make ammunition supplies. I worked in the office that dealt with the MOD and the Admiralty.

Hello Banjo, I went to Camden St junior and Secondary Modern. I do remember Ellen St school very well in those days. My friend went there, and she lived in Hingeston St. I lived just up the road from Stoddards butchers.

Hello Banjo, The laundry and dry cleaners I remember there was Sketchley. I used to walk by it every day to school. It was next door to Gay's the toy shop.

We had to go to Monument Road swimming baths to learn, but sadly I never did, although I enjoyed going and have always loved being in water. I learned to swim eventually at Monument Rd baths when I was 18. Like you Judy, it was also one of my favourite sports next to ice skating.

Me too Charlie, I used that library through my school years and after. Such a very special building, what will they do with it before it gets vandalised I wonder? Long before Tesco got next door to it, there used to be a really good chemist shop on that site, which again was used all the time by...

As a child, I remember the lawns and fountains along the walk towards the Hall of Memory, and remember sitting on the benches too. What a peaceful place it was in those days, much better than the way it is now.

Hello Mike, I have only just seen the map of Moreton St on here. As I mentioned to you before this is the street I grew up in, and didn't realize, until I saw your map, that the actual house I lived in wasn't a back to back after all. At the time I lived in this street there were no houses on...

We used to call it Spanish wood when we were kids.

I remember when we all wore stilleto shoes, and the heels were always giving problems, getting stuck down crevices and cobbles, which were still in our street in the eary seventies. Paynes on Icknield St were always the shop I took mine to and they were so competent and reliable for repairs.

Lyn, I agree with you on this one. I worked at Bulpitts when I left school, and in those days of course there were no postcodes, but I can't remember the office stationery having Ladywood on them or Hockley on them. I lived in the next street going towards the Mint, and we were St Pauls...