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.... thanks, Lloyd and tardebigge. Lloyd, it seems to be JOJ but the file size is so small that the number could be anything from 200 to 999! (which it isn't because the first digit appears to be different from the other two .... possibly a 6 .... no fleet number either. Sorry, David PS Is it a...

.... this is the photograph that I've been trying to track down. This copy is only 18,6Kb but I'd like to have one which I could blow up without losing too much detail. The reason I'm searching for this photo is simply because beyond the Mini Van one can make out a whitewashed shop wall...

Help please .... for two days now I've been combing the Forum, other forums and the web for a photograph I've seen two or three times but I've no idea where. The photographer is on Bordesley Green. He's looking down Bordesley Green Road. A Birmingham City Transport No 8 Inner Circle bus (Guy...

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos Here it is ......

Den, it's nigh on impossible to grip a piece of sooted glass or an x-ray film with boxing gloves on! (wink)

..... so never, NEVER look at an eclipse of the sun without a piece of sooted glass or an old x-ray film! D.

..... well, after having ignored all these cautionary tales, although I need +1.5 specs for reading, my long-distance sight is nigh on perfect! David

Thank you, Stitcher. From all accounts, 32,000 young people had a whale of a time ...... at the expense of the flora and the poor nightjar. What a shame. But where does one draw the line? Does anyone know if the elusive goatsucker has returned to the Park?

Yes, please!

Very pleased to hear that, Dennis. We were good mates too .... I even helped John out on a couple of occasions when he was hard pushed to complete his "round" ...... and many a brown n' mild we enjoyed in the pub just up the road from you in the late '60s/early '70s ...... Thursday night was...

.... I think we're on a winner, Dennis! Here's John on a Yardley Church RFC photo taken at the Oaklands in 1967 .... ...... in the 60s, did your cousin have a window-cleaning business in the Bordesley Green/ Little Bromwich area? My John had fine straight hair and lived on Bordesley Green...

Are there any former players of the forerunner of the Yardley and District RFC, i.e., Yardley Old Church RFC, among our members? I'd love to hear from - or receive news about - Pete Skipp, John Smart, Rodney Dawson, Frank Stevens, Dennis Piercy, "Taff", Dennis Price, Nigel et al. I made a...

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos ..... so these two lads with the same surname - obviously, being son and father - won the very same trophy ........ with a 28-year difference! Incredible! Any connection with ....... ?

Here's Johnny Matthews's photograph : ...... and what a photograph !!!! Brilliant, John. Congratulations to both you and your dad. This shot takes the biscuit! D.

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos Johnny, I'm over the moon that I posted this photograph. I think you could probably get away with a 6in.x 4in. copy of the photo posted in Post #87. If you compare it with the photograph in Post #89, I had to do a fair bit of restoration. If...

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos Hello there, Johnny, What a stroke of luck! Fancy your being on this photograph! I have a number of things that I hope you can verify: (a) could you please confirm that the photo shows the school’s First XI; (b) was it taken during the 1959/60...

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos .... yet another one, Bob ..... this photograph was taken in the school's quad in late March 1960 ...... I think. With thanks to John Lewis (jldell), a former Bordesley Green Tech. pupil. David

Jack and Jill, Went up the hill, To get a pail of water. Jill came down, With half-a-crown For doing what she hadn't ought't'.

Excellent, Heath! "Cod" rings a very loud bell! ...... but I seem to have a half-recollection that it was used for the other Mr Jones on the staff, i.e. the deputy-head, due to the fact that he wore bottle-bottom spectacles and his glare resembled that of a cold-eyed fish peering through the...

' evenin', Dennis, As Dame Elizabeth House features in two of your photos in Post #79, may I ask if you ever went to the ballroom-dancing lessons which were held there on a Saturday morning at the end of the 1950's? David