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The junction is Cooksey Road and Bolton Road. In Cooksey Road on the left is Dixon Road Junior School, my alma-mater from 1953.

Great old photo, looks like the Villa. Infact, I'm sure it is. Isn't that a young Alex Mcleish dressed in a suit and seated on the left?

You could be right about the position of Butler street, which makes me wonder is the street that I referred to Butler Street South and the name York Place seems to ring a bell?

Couple of photos. Bolton Road and Bordesley Park Road, see the photo with the person standing on the corner in the distance? Just as you go round that corner was Butler Street.

Blue Nose Dek, that's cos I was brought up within yards of St Andrews, local team support and the fact that I didn't have a Cockney accent, so I couldn't support Manchester United.

When I read the line does anyone remember this bus crash, I immediatetly thought it was refering to a crash that took place at the island underneath the flyover near Bordeslet Station.. I can remember a bus hit the horse drawn Milk wagon. In the late 50's or very early 60's I suppose. You've...

If, for point of discussion we say the one with the holes in, is both a Pikelet and a Crumpet. Then what do you call the one without holes in it? You can't call it a Pikelet or a crumpet because those terms have already been applied to the one with the holes. Nope it don't work. Pikelets =...

This should settle it once and for all: The Welsh are extremely fond of crempog (pancakes) stacked into layers and oozing with good salty Welsh butter. Bara pyglyd (pikelets) are another favourite, the spongy holes unequalled in their ability to absorb butter. Welsh butter is generally very...

Actually I was joking because there should have been an apostrophe at the end of Mrs Beaton before the final S. Oh well supper time, a glass of fine french wine and a Crumplet

No it ain't logical.... If you poked a pike in a crumpet it would be called crumpike or a pikepet. The original pikelet was made full of holes with a pike. Then during Elizabeth's the Firsts reign, the Pikeman were replaced with dart throwers. The Pikelet was placed in the centre of a dartboard...

If they've got 'oles in em, them pikelets. (Pikes are used to make the holes) If they ain't got 'oles in 'em, them crumpets.

The swings included a Giants Stride and a Witches Hat

We used to get the tram from Navigation Street. Was there a large cafe come canteen at the Lickeys by the Terminus or am I imagining it?

Library? Library? Most of 'em couldn't tell one end of a book from another. But surely you heard them chanting in their falsetto way veeeeeeeeela veeeeeeeeela veeeeeeeeeela. I was hoping they would have asked me to write the lyrics for a new song it would be titled. "Girlie Pink and Powder...

What happened to the Villa song that went to the tune of the Yellow Rose of Texas? It began something like this: We're gonna to see the Villa That's who we're gonna see They're the greatest team in all the land As anyone can see You can talk about Matt Busby's boys And the boys from Higbury...

That's right I would watch the first team one Saturday and the reserves the next. One thing that I do remember at the Blues they only seemed to have two records to play. Nat King Cole's Rambling Rose and the one they seemed to play all the time was Clark's Trumpet Voluntary. On the odd...

Birmingham City

Sure do John, although I prefered to go under the viaduct in Lawden Road and watch the Great Western Kings, Castles, Halls, Manors and County class. Used to walk along the track from Arthur St / Cov Bridge toward Saltley Sheds....8A was the shed number from memory.

A true Brummie is someone who ends an arguement even though he might be losing it with: "Anyway, Shakespeare was a Brummie."

No photo of the Plume, You refer to the club next door, I assume that was the old church hall. I was in there Coronation night in 53 and the only act I can recall was some women dancing dressed like Hawaiians! At the side of the Plume was a a passage way and I think it was called Spring Vale...