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Re: gansey/sweater Iit predates the very existance of Birmingham and is a fishermans word for a jersey

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls Jennie can be found via Friends Reunited

Re: Replies Here Yes, my father was on Spitfire production during the war(9 Days on,1 day off he would have to sleep there and was in the factories Home Guard as well, armed with broomsticks to start with) The chief test pilot was Alec Henshaw, a brave lunatic. Fed up with being hit round the...

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls Bill Roberts went on to be Head at John Willmott mixed grammar where he proved just as inept with the female of the species according to my wife and our friends. however he did have two sons so I guess he knew something about females. Bert Hicken...

The Empress Cinema, owned by ABC (I was a Saturday morning Minor at 3d a time, Flash Gordon, Hopalong Cassidy etc) was a lot older than the Odeon at the other end of the shops. Built into the side of the dam which had formed the Parade, under the cinema part was a theatre section complete with...

Yes, I think they used small boys in ascending sizes!

Don't fall into the trap of saying it was our own fault. By the time we were buying inports the boat had sailed, the Germans and Japanese factory owners had been investing in new plant for years, the Germans at least enjoyed higher wages and less hours than us. Birmingham had been the workshop...

Wilmott Breedon, yet another Birmingham company that failed to move with the times. My father was in the tool design section in the late 60,s and he took some German visitors round the press shop.They actually laughed when they saw men sitting at presses. They hadn't done that for over 10 years...

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls I remember the TV program and Sutton Girls Grammar winning it, but Im sorry I don't remember a roadshow. No wonder you didn't get on too well at school,asking questions. You were there to gratefully receive both the knowledge and opinion which was handed...

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls Yes, if your face fitted you got coaching in the 11plus until a dog could have passed,if not you were consigned to the nether regions. The IQ requirement for the 11 plus was 120 (although with coaching you could pass at about 100.) I have had to have...

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls Glad it wasn't just me, please give Bob my best, Pip

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls Yeah, it was mixed like a Monastery and a Nunnery are mixed. I'm sure the girls head thought you could get pregnant if a boy looked at you. I understand she killed herself when it was going mixed. The poor girls got a very bad deal under her...

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls I worked there with Bob for a while, we spoke via friends Reunited, knew him in school and he was always a nice laid back bloke. Can't recall John, was he older? Bob was, I think, 1 or 2 years older than me. I don't know if bob would agree but there was...

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls Bob Jennings, worked at Wilkinson and Riddell?

Re: Riland Bedford High School for Girls I went to the boys half at the same time. Whoa betide any boy caught looking into the canteen when the girls were using it, or at their gym. The corridor between the two halves was I swear, mined. You came out a few minutes earlier than us in order that...

That was Gills, the best toy shop for miles. They had massive Hornby oo displays. It was run by Mr Gill snr and his son. Shela Gill, the grandaughter was a very good friend of both my wife and myself in teenage years. She went to the same grammar as my wife and I "took her out" as we said in...

Absolutly, there is only one Victoria Road as someone who lived there for years. They have destroyed it now but at least the two houses I lived in (as a child in one and as a teenager in my own flat later) are still there.

No you are not mixed up. Over South Parade from the Empress was Coombes, sweets and Tobacco, the Midland Red booking Office and Frames Coaches, British Home Stores, Burtons with the Snooker hall above, then Boyds an electrical appliance store which also sold records. It didn't last too many...

Re: Victoria road I lived at 67 Victoria Road from 1949 to 1960. Happy memories of" the lane" that ran behind the houses on the odd numbers side and the smell of roasting coffee from the green hut.