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Only bad memories I can recall are my first day at grammar school, I was feeling naturally, apprehensive. While waiting to go out to get the bus, mom must have sensed this and asked if all was ok. I said yes, but she knew I was a bit worried and questioned further. I ran out of the house, crying...

Lovely pictures, Chris and what a nice story to end your introduction with. My local ‘flea pit’ was the Erdington Palace but occasionally went to the Beaufort. Just a short trip on the 28 bus, if I remember right (from Pype Hayes). It was the best picture house I ever had the pleasure to...

Well, they do say if you want to see how your wife will turn out, look at her mother!

Here’s a pic of my dad (the goalie). The picture was too big to go on the copier complete, so I had to do some black arts and play with the copier and size. The text which is missing reads- Across the top: 1st Bn. The Wiltshire Regiment. Winners of the Singapore Amateur Football...

Brian, thanks. I lived just on the right of that picture. I think just behind the first tree, but with the new houses it might have been the second. In fact, if the lamp post is still in the same place as the one that was there when i was a kid, it is definately just out of shot where the first...

It isn't the inlaws that bother me. Its their daughters. Mind you, Im shot of her now and the happier for it!

Some lovely sunsets, and this one taken in Feb, 2008 doesn't do them justice. But considering I only had to step out of the front door to take it, it isn't so bad. Looking across Wiggington Park, towards Hopwas Hayes Wood.

Found this- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sculptures_in_Birmingham Probably not comprehensive, but should be of interest. Sorry if it's already been posted- I did do a search! If it has been posted before, feel free to remove the thread. I won't bite!

I lived in Varley Road from 1957 until I moved to Tamworth in 1980. I worked at AMAC in Wood Lane from 1974 to 1979. Last time I was there was about 2003. I have some very happy memories of those times. Thanks for the photo’s.

First, and I think only film I saw at the pictures with my dad was The First Men in the Moon with Lionel Jeffries. It was in Brum centre, so possibly the Gaumont. Now, I was only about 7 at the time, and I know it was a sci-fi/comedy but the giant caterpillar and the scuttling moonmen...

A WWII bomb shelter?

Hi, Mozey, Yes, my sister is Eileen. She now lives in Bracken Road. You can find her on Friends reunited, which is now free. I’m sure she’d love to hear from you.

Don’t get me wrong, Colin. We never went hungry. And I can remember at least two holidays paid for, transport included, by the Birmingham Round Table. I just don’t remember any xmas parties. It doesn’t mean I didn’t go, just I might have forgotten or not realised who had organised them. What I...

Hello, Colin. I don’t remember going to any parties. That might be because my parents were too proud to accept anything other than essentials and would have preferred not to have to accept those. But the canal between the floorboards suggests it was the same place. I remember it being quite...

Thanks for that photo, jennyann. Certainly looks a lot different. I spent many hours in the Queens Head and various other similar establishments in Erdington. Then it was the long haul down to the Erdington Arms that eventually became the Armada. But it was worth it because then you had...

Hi, jennyann. That's the one, the Queens- but wasn't it the Queens Head as opposed to Hotel? It must be 30 years since I walked down the High Street. I've been back since, family events as I have a sister still at Bracken Road and a brother in Hart Road. But it's alway been arrive, function...

I lived in Varley Road 1957-1980. Born in Saltley 1957. Doubt our paths crossed, but we may have mutual friends.

Thanks all for the wonderful photos. Erdington was my ‘happy hunting ground’. Anybody remember the Swan, Roebuck, the old Acorn on the corner of Church Street and the big pub, sat back from Six Ways? Probably on Gravelly Hill, technically speaking. Had a club in the back room- what was it...

I think you are correct, Duggy. I was born in 1957 and I can remember going with my mom to get free shoes. I am sure they were funded by the Birmingham Mail Christmas Tree Fund. I know they were instantly recognisable by the kids from the ‘better’ families. Comments such as ‘Daily Mail Pakistani...

My dad was in the Wiltshires, Devises, 1933-1939. Called back up just after because of the war- went into the Signals for the duration. Wonder if they knew each other? Probably not, but who knows?