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Did any of our forum members go to Billesley School? I went to all of them from Infants to Seniors. First day through the metal gates, past the airaid shelter up to the wooden huts on the left at the back, toilets outside at opposite ends of the playground, the boat in the playground, I'm afraid...

Looking at Lencops pic of the BSA Dandy bike I can see where the Honda 50/70/90 range were copied from. I bought a Honda motorbike from Aston Auto Motors and went to collect it after work on a friday night, as It was late the staff pushed the bike outside for me and when I told them that I had...

Hi All. I remember the huge pile of dirt dumped next to the car park on Billesley Common, this stayed there for several years, the ground behind the "Valley" pub, the Rec, Dingles, Trittiford park, Slade Lane field & the land next to the lake in Priory Rd where the ground moved at this time of...

Hickman Hi There. When we lived in Bevington Rd in the 1970/80s our neighbours Maiden name was Hickman and her dad lived in Nelson Rd at No 11 or 13, she still lives there to my knowledge.Sorry I can't help with the people at the bottom of Bevington Rd. Pete

Hi Slatertim. On Billesley Common the prefabs were beside the Common with an access road to them, also a service road runs beside Yardley Wood Rd. Entrance from Haunch Lane B13.The land from there rises up to end at what is now the home of Moseley Rugby Club and the indoor Tennis Centre. Could...

Hi "Judy39" If you give me your house No in Bromwall Rd I will go and photograph it for you. Pete

Earl Gray Pub The building was still standing the last time I drove past, has been shut for several years now but appears that work is ongoing.

Biking Nice pics Wendy, I progressed to a "racing bike" when I got a paper round but my dad insisted that the dropped handlebars were replaced with straight ones for safety! Over the following years I experimented with "cowhorns" that kept on moving as they wouldn't fully tighten up, tried a...

My first bike was an old "sit up and beg" black bike bought from a neighbour and my first lesson had me sitting on it with my father behind me holding on the saddle, "you peddle and I will hold you" he said, so I peddled as hard as I could. I was doing well so I turned my head to find that Dad...

You've been told about lighting fires! Pete

Paper Boy I did the usual job, a paper boy for the vast sum of 12 shillings, what really got my goat was when I recieved my first pay packet as an apprentice Electrician=14 shillings for 40 hours of work! I almost went back to delivering the papers again..... As an early riser I would deliver...

Hi There. If you stand outside the front of Holy Cross Church they would have been along the LH side wall going towards the rear of the Church. The time that I am talking about was 1950----60 .I enclose a pic of "the hut" Pete

Hi All. As a child we used to play at Holy Cross Church. Beauchamp Rd. Billesley. Birmingham and I am convinced that there were grave stones along the side of the Church, during discussions with locals some said they remember them, other not. The Church members said that there were no graves but...

Items made at School We had a new woodwork teacher who had grand ideas, the first one was to bend wood so he built a steamer in the classroom. I made a table lamp with a bent piece of wood and we used it for over 30 years. The "piece the resistance " was to convert old oak desks into step...

Cinephone The pictue House on Bristol St was the Cinephone, a mate of ours used to be the projectionist there, he used to have to censor the continental films before they could be shown and had set up a projector at home that shone on to the neighbours wall and he used to show us the cersored...

Thanks Pete. I thought that the shop was milwards, I went in to buy a transformer and he came out with a brand new oil filled and sealed one with four sets of 3.5 volts so that I could join all together to get 14 volts for my radio, trouble was, it weighed a ton! Yes and I do remember that radio...

Cristal Sat Hi All/ I had several crystal sets in my time but the first one, "wound on a toilet roll" was the best. A long wire had been attached to the tree at the end of the garden with the other end attached to the house then throught he window to the "radio", an earth came from the mains...

Ratpan We lived in Bevington Rd in the 70s and one night a neighbour invited us to the "Ratpan" for a drink so my wife and myself went and bought a raffle ticket each when they came round. Well, we won first and second prize, both cash payouts, the regulars looked quite upset that "newcomers"...

Apprentice I was an apprentice electrician with N G Bailey and started at 14 shillings a week (70p) on the Albany Hotel,Bullring,Chelmsley Wood, Druids Heath and at Comley & Pit.Was trained to make a good quality tea, coffee and to fetch the sandwhiches, carry the Electricians tools and to go...

Electricity In the 60s I wired for the first time a row of houses behind Selly Oak Hospital that were still gas! The landlord had asked the tenents if they wanted Electricity but they didn't so he waited until they passed away.... The good old days using lead wiring then V.I.R cable before the...