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I wonder what happened to some of these smashing shields and trophies, unless of course they are still played for.

Ah well, there goes another bit of our local history. The two stone pillars at the entrance to Burbury St Park and the park keeper's house still exist from when I played there in the early fifties. I think they're original structures, unless of course they've been rebuilt !

Is it going to reopen as the 'Queens Head' or put to another use ? The top of the archway and the four windows are recognisable although the latter are smaller. Used to live in the parallel Bridge St West way up the other end right next door to St Saviours church. Left in 1954 when the family...

My late aunt, Alice Bow, worked at Lucas Great King St all her life until she retired aged 60 in 1971. She never married and perhaps either she never met anyone - or preferred working to being at home all day as a married woman !

Hi Dave, I was born (1946) and bred at the other end of Bridge Street West to you, and lived down an alleyway called 'Cottage Row'. It was slap bang next to St Saviours church where myself and my siblings were Christened. I went to 'Burbury St Junior Infants School' which was also slap bang...

Hi Astoness, hope you and yours are keeping well and a big thank you for all the work you put in running this incredible site. Yes, I promised I would send Angelal some photos of Cottage Row where we both used to live, but obviously at different times. I searched high and low and thought I...

Hi Angelal, Success ! I haven't been in touch since you last e-mailed me with two photos of when you lived in Cottage Row next to St Saviours church. I said I would contact you when I found my own photos of Cottage Row. I had all but given up when I finally came across them. My parents...

Does anyone out there remember my late sister, Maureen Bow, who attended Lozells Girls' School after leaving Burbury Street Junior Infant School ? She was born in October 1940 and so went to Lozells in September 1952 at the beginning of the new term. She left towards the end of the summer term...

Hi Mike, I somehow received your message above by e-mail as well, and this is the reply I sent you below. However, it came back as 'undelivered' probably because it wasn't your actual e-mail address. I would love to hear details and see photos of 'Witton Rugby Club' as we always knew you by...

I posted on the forum a year ago about playing rugby against the 'GEC WITTON RUGBY CLUB', and the post match refreshments and food in the THE MAGNET CLUB. I'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who used to play for the club, and if they have any history and/or photos of it. As I said...

I'm showing my age but as an 18 year old, I went to the Silver Blades rink when it first opened in 1964. I was there every Saturday night and there was a regular disc jockey whose name I can't remember - which isn't surprising seeing as it was almost 58 years ago. Was it perhaps Ricci the Dee...

Spargone, I don't think that what I said was that big a statement actually. From what you've written, I assume you want a return to the 11+. That's because you said that proponents of comprehensives like myself, want the elimination of all alternatives. That's some statement, as is your other...

Hi David, Actually, I've got a confession to make about George Churchward in that we had a nickname for him as well. Being around my age, you will no doubt remember a radio comedy programme called 'Round The Horne' previously known as 'Beyond Our Ken'. It starred Kenneth Horne, Kenneth...

Hi db. Thanks for your reply and I think everyone got on with George Churchward mainly because he was such a nice bloke. Perhaps that's why our headmaster got him to move on because unlike George, he was the strictest disciplinarian you could meet. I would imagine that he thought George was...

Hi Richard, Yes, it was a totally absurd system which decided your life at the age of 10/11. You passed to a Grammar or Technical school and failed to a Secondary Modern school. Luckily, many children like yourself went on to have successful careers whether they passed the 11+ or not. People...

It's a small world Michael. So Rodney Bedall was a professional actor and had a good career. You just never know how people's lives work out and I suppose Rodney's was quite a successful one.

I suppose at the end of the day Susan, your mother and 'boozy' had your best interests at heart but as you say, your activities away from school shouldn't have been of any interest apart from yourself. Reading some of the comments on a couple of Facebook sites about Bournville, it seems the...

Oh dear oh dear oh Susan ! Well you certainly upset 'boozy', that's for sure, if she resorted to physical assault - i.e. slapping your face very hard. I always thought that corporal punishment in senior girls' schools was banned, but obviously not. Slippering across the backside, face...

I also moved to Northfield, but from Hockley in 1954. I was just in time to go to the brand new 'Ley Hill Junior Infant School', starting in September 1954, as I lived in Ley Hill Farm Rd on the new estate. Most of it has now demolished along with the school. The new school on the same site...

I went to the brand new (at the time) Ley Hill Primary School (opened I954), and we played Rathvilly at both football and cricket. Rathvilly was a private school as I recall, on the Bunbury Rd. Gil Merrick taught sport at Greenmore College, another private school, which was in Priory Rd just...