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Richard, did you not have a long interview with an officer who would ask you what you did in civvy street?.I did and at that point he made a decision and asked me if I was satisfied with the R.E.M.E. He also put me down for W.O.S.B.which I did not know what that was until later and I did not...

oldMohawk, You always get the one who is out to get you, at Barton Stacey our L/Cpl was a lot shorter than I and I knew I was in for it, he was frustrated because he could not spit in my face when he was having a go at me for nothing in particular,I was too high off the ground he...

Rosie, Everything went in one mess tin, that's why it was called a mess tin, your salad starter, dinner and your sweet, when you think about it that is what happens when you have eaten it all. You watch this space there will be other mixed dinners from the N/S lads now you have mentioned...

That was why the buses got diverted up to the Yewtree. Dave

Tony, if you go onto Google earth and street view, zoom into Moat lane Yardley and follow down from Yewtree lane until you see the park on the right, carry on until you come to the first house on the right. Swing about to the other side of the rd and you will see some flats at pavement level...

Tony, you are right that was the numbers of the buses on that route. They were those from the first bus that ever ran on that way back in the forties. During the war the buses had to come up Vera rd hill into Patrick rd and up into Croft rd and then into the Yew Tree because for a time the...

That was the 15B and the 15, the 16 and the 16A went to whittington oval at the bottom of Queens road.

My life long friend used to free-flight in Sutton Park with Nigel Mansell up until a few years ago. He was keen on his radio control free flights, his collection consists of over 30 engines, rather a lot when you can only use one at a time. Dave

Keith, Check this out they are still trading https://www.alwayshobbies.com/

The trams ran up the Bull ring when I was a kid and into Moor St, to be honest I can only remember trams going up Digbeth and up to the top of the Bull Ring and into Moor St and then on to Carrs lane and to Albert St. I would not know if "Hobbies" was moved to a different location but I do...

I must be the only one who remembers the model shop near the corner of moore st and the BullRing which was my hunting ground at the latter part of the War,"Hobbies" it was facing st Martins, the building next to it was damaged during the war and was shored up with very large pieces of timber for...

George, what a small world we live in, just browsing and I saw the name M.Hanson come up. Before Hobbs moat rd was built on in the area of Ulleries rd it was all fields when I was a kid and we used to fly free flight and control line on the fields either side of the road. Maurice was always up...

Sorry Margaret, I realised afterwards reading other posts that you lived up at Gilbertstone area, it was obviously another person. When I was at Cockshut hill the boys and were seperate, that was from 1944- 1948 I did not know that they ever joined the two together.Many of my school friends...

John I do not think there is any connection as our team played in Stechford rd on a private pitch. Dave

Ma Margaret Wilson, did you live in Croft rd on the corner of Patrick rd by any chance as I went to school with you if you are the same person. Dave Edwards

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos jldell John, I do not know your surname but I am sure I must know you as I played for Wardend for many years in the second team (a happier team than the first). I played in goal being 6-3 inches from about 1952-3 until mid 1960. Sadly many...

sheldontony, it was Jean Axford, not Joan Dave

GeorgieG, I did not get things quite right when you said you had lost your friend, she was the Daughter not the Mom and Dad. Only when I read the post again did I realise it could not have been the parents. You said she was about 60, a bit young to pass away these days. Dave

Sheldontony, the house you lived in was occupied during the war by the Axfords. the kids were Graeham and Joan they were my age may be slightly older, more towards my sisters age. They did not play out in the road very much I don't know why, it was all in the roads in those days because we did...

georgie, I do not know what happened to the kids, I have got a photo of them from the party in 1945 which took place in the road, but I cannot remember their names, "Was the lad called Tony"? I'm not sure .I left there in 1959 when I got married. Dave