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jayf : a very late reply to your Post #37 from 2015 .... I too attended Church of Christ in Sparkhill (on Stratford Road near Court Road junction). I went to their Sunday School in the early 1960s which was held in the small hall behind the church. I recall a number of Sunday School daytrips to...

mw0njm : As you might imagine, there were always other children spreading rumours about a ghost .... but I was more scared of the jellyfish in the Irish Sea !

For 6 consecutive years when I was a child in the 1960s we spent the first week of August on our summer family holiday at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales. Rooms were fitted out as basic self-catering accommodation i.e. beds and a calor gas hob. It was a fantastic place to holiday as a...

Whilst browsing old Birmingham newspapers I spotted the 2 attached items .... Birmingham Daily Post 30 March 1915 : a gatling gun and ammunition are donated for placement in Sparkhill Park. Birmingham Daily Gazette 1 February 1929 : the gatling gun is still in Sparkhill Park, and there's...

Since the 1968 photo, Tallett's has moved a little further down Moseley Road to the corner of Sherbourne Road East .... presumably including the old #367 site.

I think this is the block of buildings referred to in the above maps. Picture dated as 1968. For context .... the building behind the right-most tree is the bank on the corner of Moseley Road and Belgrave Road.

Here are a few more old Formans Road photos that have appeared on the local history sites over the past few years.

Here are a few more old Formans Road photos that have appeared on the local history sites over the past few years.

I believe from other posts that the replacement bridge was built in 1924.

The building on the right of this Brighton Road photo could be a pub (or premises suitable for later conversion to a pub) .... but I can't read the sign ??

boringmike …. The 2 pools were always open-plan in my day, during the 1960's. FYI Sparkhill Baths also had a café …. with hot Bovril, Cow & Gate, and wagon wheels (when they really were the size of wagon wheels!).

There were 2 pools in the old Sparkhill Baths …. here's a photo. It also shows the diving boards that were removed for health and safety reasons long before the old baths closed.

Ref Post #30 Great photo that I've not seen before. Although I think this "replacement photo" is more likely to be a view of the Stratford Road from the St Johns Road junction, looking away from town. The steam tram is parked outside the old tram building .... that was replaced by the current...

Thanks for the correction oldMohawk/Radiorails.

Ref oldMohawk's Post #965 …. I've previously seen that photo dated as 25 July 1883 which was the royal visit for the official opening of the General Hospital.

Great photos Two. I can't picture which part of the park is shown in #5 …. but it was a long time before my 1960's park-playing days. Any ideas ?

It's a while since I was in the park, but I believe the bandstand is still there. The pond was filled in and landscaped many years ago. During the sixties the park was very well used by local children …. football in winter, cricket in summer, tennis in the hard courts, smaller kids on the...

And here's a couple more. I'm surprised to see a swan in the pool …. I always remember it as a large paddling pool for kids, rather than a "wildlife" pond that other parks had.

This is a very old thread, but maybe we can re-start it with some old photos to jog memories. This is my favourite which came with a date of 1955. I lived in Thornhill Road as a lad and spent a large part of my childhood in Sparkhill Park. I remember that tree in the foreground …. it was a...

A copper on point duty at the Stratford Road / Walford Road junction.