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I'd completely forgotten about Pinhead, and yes, I too remember that comment about tights coming down. We must have been at YGS about the same time. I also remember another occasion following a school disco. During the disco some girls had been sitting on boys' laps and the next school day the...

Look and Learn was an excellent magazine and I'm sure many kids learnt a lot from it. At one time my wife's brother had a huge collection of them. I must ask him if he's still got them.

Thanks, Alf. I can remember a lot of those covers. The link on that page takes you to a complete list of titles, including the Classics Illustrated Junior titles. I'd forgotten about them.

Wikipedia states that the first issue was in 1941 (The Three Musketeers) and publication of new titles ceased in 1962, although you could but them long after that. Yes, Jean, I wish I had kept all my copies, but I'm afraid they would not be worth much because they weren't in mint condition as...

If there was one thing that got me interested in books, it was that great series of comics when I was growing up, called Classics Illustrated. I hesitate to call them comics in a way, because, although their format was definitely in the comic style of picture and bubble writing, their content...

What a wonderful set of coincidences, pamhol. Isn't it strange how things turn out.

'Granny' Goodall used to say, 'Thank you, I'll use that to support my plants,' as she broke in half a ruler that someone had been tapping on the table.

Far from it, Polly. I was thinking they would look like Flash Gordon or Dan Dare.

I can remember all the kids in class being asked this at the age of 7. I proudly said I wanted to be a spaceman, and wondered why everybody laughed. There were no such things as astronauts then and I guess people didn't think there was much chance of anybody going into space. I think I was...

Our Geography teacher met each of his new classes with the same phrase - "You play ball with me, and I'll play ball with you. But remember, it's my ball." And he meant it! I liked most of my teachers, but he was one I just could not stand, hence I haven't mentioned his name. If a boy got a...

I'm a bit late posting this, but I only just noticed this thread. One of my favourite comic heroes, Dan Dare, celebrated his 60th anniversary on 14th April, as did the comic in which he made his debut in the very first issue, Eagle. I used to love his battle with the Mekon, but there were so...

Do you know, that even with me being over 60 now, I still have panic dreams about not having done my homework? It just shows what a big part of our lives our short time in school proved to be. As if to prove it, I have clear recollections of some of the things my teachers used to say, and I...

Robert, I think you're right about the shop the girls used being owned by people called Jukes. Were you at Yardley as well? Russell, you were a couple of years older than me, but I do remember your name. Innquest, you came to Yardley Grammar a couple of years after I left, but it's good to...

What I forgot to mention was what happened at the end of every half term, and I'm sure this will disgust you. Mrs Woolley used to get rid of the part drunk pop bottles that had not been claimed, but before she could do that we always used to check with her if there were any unfinished bottles...

Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was lost in thought. I was thinking . . . But tell you what, why don't you come with me and I'll show you what I was thinking? Close your eyes and we'll soon be there. Open them again. It's a Monday in 1962 and we're standing in Medina Road, Tyseley. Just...

Thank you all for your wonderful comments. Here are two photographs of my lovely Bobby Budgie.

May I share this with you all? We're very sad at the moment because out little Bobby Budgie died last night, but it was such a strange experience leading up to it. We had Bobby for over 10 years, and he was a wondeful companion. He could talk and his whistling was like that of a canary...

And could anybody work out what the newspaper sellers were shouting?

My childhood memories of Birmingham are of a wonderful, exciting place. I don't remember it as a frightening place at all, but maybe that's because I was seeing it as a child and I was never in there late at night. Mind you, even as a teenager, there was never the huge level of drunken behaviour...

I was thinking about what I missed about the old Brum and was wondering what other people were sad that we have lost. For me (at the moment before I think of any others) these are some of the things I miss. The noise of the starlings and their incredible acrobatic flying displays every night...