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We had a small air raid shelter flat roofed like this one at the bottom of our garden ,smaller of course, that was over 60 years ago. I have google mapped the old house and garden and it looks like ours and the adjoining air raid shelters are still there, probably as it would take some getting...

Roger Cox was the goalie for the team my hubby played for (stirrup cup) and Barry Cox was in my year at school! Hubby remembers Roger singing too.

Yes it was "Freds" I used to go there with my sisters for ice lols, jubilee's and sweets in the 1960's then I took my kids there when they were small, Fred had all the large lolly jars, he would weigh out for you, remember the kali?

Hi Robert I lived in one of the flat roof houses in Common Lane when I was a kid till I got married. The street was only narrow and had a wide stretch of dirt on left side going up from church rd to barrows lane there lots of trees and bushes where us kids all played. It was later widened and we...

I lived in common lane growing up and I visited the sheldon library every saturday, spent hours there pawing over which books to read this week...loved it! I moved to Horrell rd when I married and my children went to story time there. I loved the bookshelves full of books as far as the eye could...

Oh yes I remember Woodroffs, it was on the corner it had hardware and household goods in one side and I think you could go through an internal door through to the sweet shop. If I remember correctly around November they stocked fireworks. I think next door there was a butcher and next to that...

Hi Astoness, I worked at Telephone house from around 1967 to 1971 when the new exchange opened in sheldon, I much preferred the old cord and plug boards. I knew a Lyn Johnston who worked at Telephone house lived in Erdington then ???

Hi Mbenne, I lived in Common lane as a child in the 50's and then in Horrell rd after getting married . I used to walk up Sheaf lane with my mum, my gran and my two young children to shop at the wheat sheaf. I think that shop eventually became a small hairdressers, my mother in law went there...

Hi Neville, The photo of the old sheldon cinema is taken along the coventry rd. The telephone exchange was at the back of the cinema along lyndon rd ,it was called the sheldon telephone exchange , very modern in those days, all switches after I had worked at telephone house which was all cord...

Just reading about you training on PBMX would your training have been down Newhall st at the GPO , it was called Telephone House it was right at the bottom of the hill? I worked at Telephone House from 1967 to around 1971 then tranferred to the new Sheldon exchange. I loved the stretchy plug...

I also worked at the telephone exchange in Newhall st. I started there in 1967 age 17 .My maiden name was Hellon, I was there till around 1971 when I transferred to the new sheldon telephone exchange. I loved the old plug boards in Newhall st , the ones at Sheldon were just switches . I too...

Hi Diane, I worked at telephone house newhall st from 1968-1971 then transferred to the Sheldon exchange when it opened. I did know a Diane wondering if you were there in that time frame? Loved my telephonist job , best job I ever had, I left there in december 1975 to have my first child...

Hi Just seen your concrete slab and ring, looks like the one in the park behind common Lane, someone else suggested they would be anchored by more than one which seems logical but I can't remember if there were more in the park, but sounds reasonable suggestion, but would be a fair way away...

Hi I lived in Common Lane, sheldon when I was a kid from 1950 onwards. There was a barrage balloon anchor point over the park behind us. I believe its called Sheldon Country park now. It was about the size you stated and had a large rusty ring on it. My mum told me there were barrage balloons...

Hi, I remember the sweet shop at the Coventry rd end of barrows Lane, my father used to get off the 58 or 60 bus after work and buy sweets for me and my sisters. We lived in Common Lane and sometimes would scooter up to meet him there was an old derelict house nearer the Coventry rd past the...

I also worked at telephone house Newhall st from about 1967 till around 1971/72 and transferred to the new Sheldon Telephone Exchange. i loved the old swithchboards and the plugs we had to stretch to reach the correct exchange to connect the calls.Besides the regular oprerator calls we did...

No, there was no sorting office there in Lyndon rd sheldon. It was just the Sheldon telephone exchange I worked there for a few years in the early 70's. Wendy

I remember the Bluebell woods at Chelmsley Wood, my parents would pack a picnic lunch, then with my sisters and me would all walk from sheldon through the playing fields of king george the 5th and spend the day picking bunches of bluebells, it looked like a sea of blue and occasionally you would...