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Blimey, I was in 1J too, but in 1966. I don't recall any trips like this...nor Stuart Spires, although he would have been in the 3rd year when I started..obvs...

He taught me to swim at Moseley Road Baths, we were given tokens for the 50 bus back into Kings Heath. Wasn't he a national coach too?

Thanks for the update and the spelling correction...it's been a while. He was a terrific teacher, I'm only sorry that I didn't continue with him, perhaps I wasn't given the support I needed to carry on. I'd only ever done English Language as a subject, and Literature never appealed.

JDM Wright taught me Biology year 1 & 2, maybe. Very dry, from what I can remember.

Dan Matthews was good enough to get me through my Maths O level, despite the fact that I was awful...quadratic equations were the bane of my life.

I so remember being a sherrin, & the blue goldfish, but fortunately was never subjected to it - I have not heard that phrase since the 1970s! Harry the Plank - I still have the boat/steamer I made in the first year, and he had a very whistly laugh, I remember. The BAT - lived up the road from us...

Blimey - I was there 1966-1971, and many of the names above taught me - Polly Bates - he also taught my dad when he was there!; Hunt - Geography; Tony Appleby got me through Art O level; Harry Brown - we though he was old in 1966! Geoff Sanders - French? My head was Alan Cholmondley, who could...

I was born at 87 Showell Green Lane, Sparkhill, opposite what was the Women's Hospital; grandparents lived in Cadbury Road; we then moved in early 1960s to Ferndale Road, very upwardly mobile; on marrying, we lived in a flat in School Road, Moseley, then Blenheim Road; due to promotion, I had to...

I worked there as a Saturday boy, probably around 1969-70, for around 6 weeks - the first week, Mrs. Willmont asked me to reorganise the shoe storeroom - which was as you might imagine, huge - shelves and shelves of trainers, football, rugby, cricket boots, pumps, tennis shoes, you name it, all...

More memories - going to the playing fields on Fox Hollies Road to play football - I was hopeless - my grandad bought me some really heavy old fashioned football boots with leather studs and hard toecaps - nothing like the modern boots; being in the recorder group, and competing at Cadburys in...

I was at Yorkmead School from 1961-1966 (started a year late, as my first school, Moseley College, on the Wake Green & Yardley Wood Road crossroads, sold for flats, shut after my first year - not connected....). I so remember some of the teachers I had - lower school - Mrs. Hogben, was Miss...

HI, my mum was in the AFS during WW11, we have some buttons from her uniform. She died in 1977, so we have no family recollection of where she was based (she lived in Moseley at the time) - is there a way to find any useful information please? Thanks.