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Jennings, Charles 19/11/1940 84 Summerville Road, Small Heath

Collins, (Male) 22/11/1940 313 Somerville Road, Small Heath

Atkins, Frederick Kenneth 17 23/11/1940 317 Somerville Road, Small Heath 23/11/1940 317 Somerville Road, Small Heath

Sad. At least we could look through the fence and see what we were missing! Brian

Sorry - never in my year, and we rarely mixed too much those above/below! Presumably Alderlea was mixed? In which case you were probably better off. Brian

Started Sep '66, left as soon as I could to start work! Jul '71 Just did the basic 5 years, Had got bored with the place after the first 3, wished they could have done more to keep me interested now, but that's life! Brian

Central is still around, Surely? It joined up with Byng Kendrick Girls - the year after I had left!!!! and is now called the International School.

There's a copy hanging in the waiting room of my Doctor's - but that's in Aston Lane, Birchfield!

Morning Lyn, I don't recall seeing Buses normally in Gt King St, I'm sure they went up Wheeler St direct. They certainly didn't have school buses in my day - shank's pony.... but it was just round the corner! I think A Lucas workers special - Smudge Smith did a nice pic of Lucas's with them all...

The bus is coming down Great King St from the direction of Great Hampton St towards the Lucas factory, not sure if it a Perry Common bus that will go up Wheeler St or a Lucas worker special - they used to have loads of 'em to bring 'em and tek 'em bak 'ome agin!

Hi Lyn, Your pics came out much better than the few I tried with my little digital! Left hand view in Pic 1 is looking from Gt King St down towards Guest St. Bridge St West is at the back of the houses. House 53 is the right hand one visible, counting down to 79 - we are just about visible in...

This island was originally in honour of John Baskerville - What has happened to him? I did not notice where the information panel had gone to - has it been relocated? He is buried in the catacombs below where the circle is. The civilian dead were buried in their own family graves wherever...

Passed through WL Cemetery yesterday as I was passing by. I noticed there is a new Monument to WW1 fallen - small black with a Red Rose carved in it. It has been placed on what was Baskerville Island - and the info panel bout Baskerville has been removed. I tried to upload a pic but the imaging...

Key hill was a slog, but Warstone was the mammoth task - almost 106,000! Many months of an hour or so every night! Hopefully it's something which will be of use for a long time to come! Am managing now to do work on my own family tree, but with over 64 lines to track between the Wife and I - I...

Sadly, Church graves are often moved, not only for building, but for making more space. After a century or so, they get pretty full, and often area's are 'cleared' - headstones afre removed to outer walls, remains are collected and reburied in a small corner plot somewhere - They would never...

Hi Rosie - good news indeed! There area a few of the larger Common Graves in C Section, Key Hill, that now lie under or partly under the extra retaining wall abutments on the corner of Key Hill Drive - as far we know, there were movement of remains, just the dumping of the headstones that would...

Would I be wasting my time? Yes! Graves in front of the church are few now. many headstones have been used for paths, or lining the sides of the pathway, often broken, some barely legible now. The churchyard to rear was an overgrown brambley jungle the last few time I visited. The garden of...

Walter Edwin Knight (R.A.M.C.) was my Maternal nan's 1st husband - Only 10 weeks left - he almost made it, if he had, I probably wouldn't be here! He is listed on a panel just inside the main doors of Aston Parish Church - St Peter & St Paul. Access is now through the 'new wing' into the far...

Great News indeed. Some years ago I was asked to take some pics of V.C. Graves for an author - Quinton did not even know they had one there, Witton said Military grave sightseers were an nuisance - they gace out info, but got no income from it.... Yardley had a printed list almost to hand of all...