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I was involved in the week during 1958 or 1959. I was in the Brownies attached to Holy Trinity R C church in Sutton Coldfield. I went to St Josephs RC primary school. I remember spending a hot day clearing stones from someone's garden ready for them to lay a lawn. It was a very hot day but I...

Does anyone remember this fundraising week we did when we were Brownies in the 1950s? It was meant to be the Girls version of Bob a Job. I am not sure it would be an appropriate name these days!

I was brought up in Sutton Coldfield and even though I was only 6 remember visiting the jamboree on the day of the Queen's visit. I vaguely remember her going by in the car. The Jamboree was a big event for Sutton and was talked about for years. I joined the Brownies when I was about 7 so it...

Interesting career. I worked at the Falcon Hotel, Stratford-Upon-Avon as a chambermaid during all the holidays whilst I was at college. My first catering job was as a dietetics cook at New End hospital London. I left catering after that and eventually retrained as a teacher. I taught Sociology...

Hi Raymond I have a vague recollection that one of the catering lecturers used to work on the TV programmes, preparing the food, for Fanny Craddock. Can you remember? Did you continue into a catering career?

Thanks for the names. I have found memories of the Shakespeare pub on the corner. I remember we all used to use it.

Good to hear from a past student. I was on the Housekeeping/Catering course. My memory for names is not good but do remember Monsieur Tissier. I can only remember a few names from my course. Joan, Madeleine, Betty, ?Tunicliffe. Our course was all female but we joined with others in the kitchens...

I was brought up in Sutton Coldfield in the 1950s and we had a pig bin that was collected every week.

Thank you everyone who has contributed to this thread. It is great to see photographs of where my Dad lived and hear people's memories. Carolann

Thank you. I think I prefer the street as it was!

What a brilliant story. Thank you. I only wish my Dad was still alive so that I could tell him. Thank you

Thank you. I will look that up.

Any idea when?

Many thanks for both for the photograph and map and the electoral roll entry. My Dad as not 21 until 1951 so would not have been eligible to vote. I now know that I have remembered the correct pub name. Does anyone remember the pub? What happened to it? I know that there was a piece in the...

Harold Davies and Marie Davies. My Dad's name was John and he had an older brother called Robert

I have got a Turners Arms from the History pub directory at 108 Turner St B11 it seems from a map to be near Ladypool road? I am looking to find it because I think my Dad's parents ran it and he ran it with his Mother for a while, If I have remembered the pub name!

Does anyone know of a post war pub called the Turner's Arms? It may have closed in the 50's or 60's and/or was run as an outdoor. Not really sure which part of Birmingham but there is one recorded in Turner Street

Whilst researching my family history I found that my Great Grandfather Bernard Hope lived with his Wife, 2 daughters and 4 other family members at this address in 1901. He was a fried fish dealer. On looking up the address now I see that it is a Pizza and kebab shop! Does this mean that the...

Thanks for the video. It brought it all back to me. Are there any other ex students from Birmingham College of Food with memories of their time there?

I was one of the first groups of students at the new building in Summer Row when it opened in 1967. I have mentioned the paternoster lifts in another thread but wondered if any other past students remembered them. Someone has mentioned that they had them at Aston University. They were quite...