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Looking East along Moor St towards Carrs Lane in 1960's M&S to the left.

Found this map that shows the line of the GWR tunnel "along" Carrs Lane. See #27 above

A map showing line of GWR tunnel

Firebird, 1950's coffee bar on right.

When Camp Hill was KEGS the boys school and girls school were very very separate, play grounds divided with thick walls topped with high wire netting, really, as Waverley was co-ed were there dramatic modifications to the structure.

Grosvenor House(Barclays) looking complete so your date about correct.

Thanks! Also cuckoo flower it seems. Cardamine pratensis if you get posh.

Hi, I've been doing, perhaps that should be not doing "no mow May". This pretty weed has appeared among the buttercups and daisies. Any ideas?

May I suggest reading the 2002 Sir Frank Price autobiography "Being There" for comments by a colleague of Manzoni.

Not a chess player, but "Heard56/57" was David Heard, I was in the same year (he also played the flute). I do remember Mr Brown, woodwork, there were two Mr Browns, being involved with running chess.

The school was across Stratford Rd from the goods station. I hadn't realised that there were two other Balsall Heath stations, where the line now crosses Brighton Rd and where the line now crosses Highgate Rd.

Yes, Beehive was down Albert St, which is to left of carpet shop, New Meeting St to it's right.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12021271/Collection-800-photos-Britain-1940s-1950s-available-view-online.html Quite a few available on this Daily Mail link

HIG(444) Highbury, ACO(706) Acocks Green, SOL Solihull.

Mike, Happy Birthday!

Dave, I used to get a 1d, yes 1d, bun from the shop just beyond the "Ship". I see the 37 now goes to Acock's Green, how confusing. I had to walk down Camp Hill to catch a Coventry Rd bus under the rail bridge, or by the boiled sweet shop, troach? All a long time ago!

I feel secure with this view, the pavement on the right is where I poured out of school at 4.10pm in the 1950's.The tram lines were still there. My mind has not been confused with the "recent" developments. I expect buses to be yellow and blue, the occasional one to be red.

Hobmoor Rd school was more or less where "Yew Tree Retail Park" is on your map. The school towards the Swan was/is Church Rd school.

In 1950's the school was to the rear of Yew Tree pub seems it is now in Wash Lane.

I believe that my dad and his brother went there that would have been in 1920's. Some twenty years later I would go past Broad Road and walk down to the infant school in Westley Road in the village even though I was Christened at St.Mary's. Not sure if it is true but I seem to think that Gil...