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Good morning, Heath, I'm pleased you like this idea; it's so much easier than cross-referring to photograph, number and name. Can you please help out and add missing information to any of the gaps in my memory? A couple of subjects taught are missing, and, I'm sure, some nicknames have yet to be...

On August 10th, 2007, in Post #24, Sparky took the time to name a lot of the members of the BGTS teaching staff; here is an update. This isn't the final, complete product, and help is needed in filling in some gaps on the named photographs and, too, in my memory. Please feel free to correct...

Glaring a a boy who had whispered something to his deskmate, said intimidatingly in a melodious Welsh accent: "I'll be over there in a minute!" And, "Where were you the day intelligence was handed out?"

If I remember correctly, his name was Mr Whetnall. He was given the job of teaching us Biology, although it wasn't his proper subject. The white coat he wore over his ordinary clothes was always speckled down the back with blue and black ink which pupils used to flick from their fountain pens as...

TOP5Y, Please don't mention John Pennington to me! He was the player who gave me backache in a game at Belchers Lane in 1959! (Please see Post #9.) I hold him responsible for triggering off my present infliction! Nor Malcolm Dudley .... he kept me out of the Bordesley Green Tech's team in my...

Re: Anyone know this location ??? I agree with Paul. Below is a photo of a beach in Suffolk; although very similar, I can see it isn't the same beach. The large photo was taken to the north of the pier in Southwold. Because of their similarity, the two beaches could be in the same area, i.e...

Indeed a fascinating portrait, Dennis. Has anyone ever commented on his baton or swagger stick? Instead of the leather-covered short staff carried traditionally by officers in British regiments for a very long time, your ancestor seems to have a pizzle under his left arm. Please see...

756 Coventry Road is on the corner of Saint Benedicts Road; that's little short of a mile from the Coventry Road end of Green Lane. Houses on the Coventry Road in the vicinity of the old Wimbush's bakery are in the region of 300. David

It was good fun in anyway, wasn't it, Terry.

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos Here - as promised - is the named copy of the Bordesley Green Tech. team I posted in Post #2 ..... winners of the League and Championship 1960/61. David Not all the names are clear on the team photo so here we go, left to right they are ...

BGTS Villa Cup winners 1955/56 Four days ago mossg sent in the above-quoted post. I've just received an IM from him. He met up with the friend he thought he'd spotted in the photograph I posted (Post #63) and they "had a few pints" together. Mr D. Farragher has an excellent memory and could...

Here you go, AstleyAustralia, My case proven: these photos are of 138 Dibble Rd, West Bromwich, B67 7xx, UK. Now that you know the correct addresses, it should be easy for fellow members of the Forum with their knowledge and insight to come up with accurate details of your ancestors. Merry...

Hello AstleyAustralia, I'm afraid I must tell you that 138 Brisbane Road doesn't - and never did - exist. The highest house number in Brisbane Road, West Bromwich, B67 7xx is Number 69. Now the good news: I believe that the addresses you have posted are incorrect: somehow the house numbers and...

Hello, Paul, Like guilbert, I'm no expert but I think you'll find that the Jinty wasn't a Great Western Railway engine. It was a nickname given to a London, Midland and Scottish Railway Class 3F 0-6-0T (Tank) engine designed by Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway...

Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos Thanks for your kind words, bob. As I stated in Post #2, I go along wholeheartedly with all you’re doing to gather together all this historically important information. I’d like to thank you for stimulating me into going into the records of...

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos ..... some more fodder: Pages 22 and 23 from the 1963 school magazine. Please note that John Pennington - the lad who put most of the ten goals past me when he played for Alston Road Primary and I was at Bordesley Green Primary (Photo in Post #9)...

Bob, I'm afraid that Dermot - although very good - just wasn't up to the level of other boys that went on from junior schools to Bordesley Green Tech. I can't recall Dermot ever winning a place in the various BG Tech. School teams. He was picked for his house side at different age levels but...

Re: Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos ...... another gem for you, bob, The insert is a scan of Pages 26 and 27 of the Bordesley Green Boy's Technical School's Magazine 1965. Obviously the events refer to the preceding year/season. Bob, I have a heap of other photos, statistics...

Hello again, bob, ...... visited this thread again a minute or two ago and looked at your posting (#60) with our mutual mate Dermot Bevan holding a cup sitting next to you. I looked again and I think I've spotted another lad who left your school to come to Bordesley Green Tech. On your...

Birmingham Schools Football History & Photos Well, bob, in answer to your query, I've come across this photo in the Bordesley Green Technical School section of Friends Reunited. The photo speaks for itself : BGTS won the League (?) and Villa Cup in 1955/56. The second photo illustrates...