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Unfortunately I don't recognize her phyl, do you know what year that was taken. :) Mo

Any idea what year the general skating session was Phil. Seems just like yesterday. I must try and find some of my photos I think I posted some last year. I remember the pub over the road but the closest I got was the bus stop outside if I went into the city instead of home.:) Mo

Funny Alf, I was going to bring that up but wasn't sure whether to. I was going to say Oisin knows that area. Did you see my post 4 back ? It is or was Temple St wasn't it. Hope you are well Alf. Mo

If you are still looking for the road behind Rackhams, was it Temple Row. It went past St Phillips and then down Temple St to New St. We went that way a lot as we got off the 70 at Snow Hill. Mo

Sorry Phil I thougt I had read all the posts I guess I didn't. Mo

Phil it looks like Steelhouse Lane with the General Hospital railings on the right of the picture. Mo

Len the guy that comes around sharpening shears lawn mower blades and knives in the summer has a van rather like that. I shall have to look next summer and see what make it is. It is certainly very old. :) Mo

Is it British Leyland Phil. :) Mo

Thanks for bring the photos forward Aston, I remember them from when you posted them before. Some of the figure skating crowd I was quite friendly with as I skated with them for 10 years. I can only remember a few names, I can't see the features too well on the dance group photo. Those were the...

That is a pity, at least we did English History. I can understand local history is difficult to include in a curriculum that is intended for the whole country but you would think something like the industrial revolution would be part of history now, certainly in the higher grades. With children...

This may be going off thread for a moment and forgive me if it is. I was trying to work out why we didn't learn more about the past as children other than the wars. I think it is because certainly my parents were doing all they could to survive in the 40's and 50's financially and even before...

Thanks Phil - hat was an amazing bit of history of the city I had not looked at or even thought about as my memories start in the late 40's. I should have realised there was housing in the city but I just thought of it being on the outskirts starting around by the jewellery quater. I have always...

Sorry I had written half went for dinner and came back to finish it and didn't check for more posts. Well done Judy. That was a good one Phil. Mo

Was it there area of Corporation Street where the museum, council house and Victoria Law Courts were built and parks were developed. I think proposed by Joseph Chamberlain. All the occupants of the slums were moved to the suburbs. Mo

Going back to the Priory, was it where the old tram depot was constructed off Colmore Row. Or even the construction of Colmore Row before the trams I guess!!!! Mo

Phil are you thinking of MANZONI GARDENS, BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE on the Southern Corner of Park Street and Bordesley Street, Digbeth. Mo

Is it Priory Queens Way and Masshouse Circle but I feel it was well before that. Mo

Phil the houses on the right remind me of the house a friend lived in, in Aston which I gather are no longer there. But I don't know what replaced those, probably apartments. Great photos, the middle one looks like a Priory, very nice. Mo

Rupert I really like your the map and how I remember the streets. Phil the photos are very nice and I have to admit I prefer it as it was than how it is now in some parts of the city. Having said that I think other parts are a great improvement. Mo

I met my husband John when I was a youth leader at Ladywood Brookfield Boys Club. A friend who was also a leader and I were taking a group of the members on an orientiering weekend so he asked John to come along as he and Doug (the other leader) had experience doing it. That was 1967 and we were...