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More Stetchford, on Hodge Hill Road, on the 55 bus route Yes frogspawn I remember it well as you say we ate it all, my mum was horrified when I said my best school meal was meat pie( Center piece) with baked beans and mash, with Gravy, Gravy on Baked beans she said!!! , but I loved it

Being good wiht needle and thread and ofcause a sewing machine, I remember helping the needlework teacher to make 28 pair of bell bottom trousers for H.M.S Pinafore that was being staged at Hodge Hill, I was asked a few times by some of the cast, please take the trousers in Lol

Sec mod.I wasn’t very academic in those days, loved sport and hands on cookery and needlework ,I left Brum in 69 but still have happy mems of my school day,s it was a long walk from close to the Raven pub but had friends to walk with, I think being a mixed school was a help even though the lads...

I really enjoyed looking at all those Happy Children ,what an adventure they had.brought tears to my eyes at times, those huge sticks of rock would cost a fortune now,,

Not just you wide boys, some of us girls did the same thing too,a bag of broken biscuits was what I would buy with my ill gotten gains

Do they still have green sprinkles on top ,my mouth is watering

My mum used to buy them every Friday from the co-op in Buklands end lane . my treat of the week ,yum

I was at Hodge hill from 1959 -1963 anybody else there then

I remember going on a school trip to Hams hall power station, not my scene at all Cadbury’s was more up my street

Wow a brill story, thank you for sharing ,hope you made a packet of dosh

Any relation to Carole O’ Reilly who would be 71 now and went to Hodge Hill school

I remember mum getting on at me not to keep sucking the barley sticks until they became pointed just in case I fell and I got stabbed in the throat,(think she just wanted a bite,) love liquorice too , do you remember liquorice comforts, I used the red ones for lipstick thanks for the memories

And sometimes there was a blockage in the liquorice and if you sucked too hard it would unblock and hit the back of your throat and even come out of your nose,lol but still loved sherbet fountains ,thanks for the memory

A trip to Brum began with my mum and I meeting my aunt and cousin in what we called the Glass Ouse,The entrance in the minories where it was nice and warm on a cold day, more happy memories for my cousin and I looking what blingy bits might have fallen off the hats in the hat department ,lunch...

The second photo brought back some happy memories, I used to work in the offices( painted white ) way back in the 60’s ,it was Part of the Rank and leisure services ,thanks for the memories Regards Jeannie

Sat on the back door step on cloud nine eating rhubarb dipped in sugar, happy days

Ooo thank you ,Looks like I might have to make that journey ,carnt beat a troach drop Jeannie now from Kent

Thank you for all that info Lady Penelope ,and the Uncle Joes Mint ball bit on utube was sooooo funny,

It was troach drops ,just googled,did anybody else love these

Me too and the market for a bag of ( Trouch ) I think it was called