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Hi Angelal, those two photos you've posted are fantastic ! I recall that our small living room was identical to the one in the photo, and the one taken in the doorway brings back so many memories from all those years ago. If you want to send me a private message please do. I'm still trying to...

I've seen quite a few cups and shields on the site as well as seeing others in various trophy cabinets at sports grounds/clubhouses when I played rugby, cricket, and soccer in my younger days. I recall a massive shield at Rowheath Pavilion, Bournville (Cadburys) which went back to about 1890...

Hi Pat, That brought back memories. I just about remember Moon's newsagents as I lived at the top end of Villa Street right next door to St Saviours church in Bridge St West. My dad would sometimes trust me to go and buy his Sunday paper from there. We left Hockley when I was 8 years old so...

Hi Angelal, Well I never thought I would meet anyone on this site who actually lived where I did - i.e. - in Cottage Row off Bridge St West ! I lived at number 3 which was right opposite number 8. There is an A to Z type of map on the Bridge St West thread (page 18) and it just about shows...

Did Great Barr have a judo club ? When I was in my twenties in the 1960's, I recall going there for a 'grading' one Sunday afternoon.

I don't know of council boarding schools in the Birmingham area but I know that there were state boarding schools that didn't cost any parent a penny. However, their children had to fit certain criteria before they were allowed to go there. I'm not sure but I believe they still exist. Perhaps...

Re your old house on that map Brian, I looked closely and realised I could see my old house as well. There was an alleyway called 'Cottage Row' that ran off Bridge Street West down the side of St Saviour's Chuch which was on the crossroads of Villa St, Guest St and BSW. There were 5 houses...

I went to Ley Hill Primary School Northfield aged 8 when it first opened in 1954. It's now changed its name to Orchard Croft Primary School. The majority of the Ley Hill council estate, which was built at the time, has now been demolished and new private houses built in its place. Perhaps the...

I'm afraid Richard, that I don't really know. Demolition of the area started around 1961/2 I think so perhaps it was taken in the fifties.

On the first photo, I think that's Mr George Churchward who taught Technical Drawing at my old school, Bournville Boys' Technical School. I don't think he got on very well with the headmaster Mr 'Bill' Jennings - so he left. Did he teach the same subject at BGTS ?

Yes, it was a different world and all those great industries and their factories have gone forever. The Lucas factory in Great King St - I was born a stone's throw away from it in 1946 - GEC at Wittton, GKN, Kynoch, the giant Austin/BMC/Rover site at Longbridge, IMI, the BSA, the breweries of M...

I never played cricket or football against GEC but as a member of the "Old Griffinians Rugby Club", I played year in year out against "GEC WITTON RFC", as they were officially known, from the mid sixties. The changing rooms were down in the bowels of the Magnet Club as I recall, and the pitch...

What happened to these unique tiled scenes of Birmingham ? Were they and other artifacts from the Woodman saved when it was demolished ? If they were, what happened to them ?

I'm sure the top photo of the Beeches is not in Perry Barr but at the bottom of Hoggs Lane going into Merrits Brook Lane in Northfield.

Hi m j, That's quite incredible. The two lads you refer to are Raymond and Graham Wheeler - my cousins ! Graham was nicknamed "tuppence" although I can't remember why. Ray was exactly the same age as me give a month, and Graham was the same age as my younger brother Derek, who was two years...

Hi Michael, I lived the other end of Bridge St West right next door to St Saviour's church. There was a narrow alleyway just before the church called 'Cottage Row.' Going down, there were outside toilets and then five small houses on either side with a 'brew house' at the end. I was born...

I've never seen this photo of the White Swan before. It was the local of my uncle, Stan Wheeler, who live almost opposite in Farm St (5/56 up an entry). Does anyone remember a small grocery shop, again almost opposite in Farm St, run by two ladies known as the 'Grindrods' ?

This isn't actually a reply Barry but I don't know how to just post a general question about schools football. My question is about Ley Hill Primary School, Northfield which opened in 1954, and I attended from its very day in September '54 until leaving for Bournville Tech in 1957. It's now...

I tried to attach a photo of myself and my younger brother taken outside our 'luxurious' house of 3 Cottage Row taken in September 1950. As not many people had decent cameras, a man used to come around the neighborhood taking photos for a small fee. Unfortunately, the photo is in PDF format...

Hi Michael, I posted this somewhere else on the site:- My name is Trevor Bow, born July 1946, and I started at Burbury St school aged four and a half at the beginning of the spring term in January 1951. My sister Maureen Bow, born 1940, was already there, and my brother Derek Bow, born 1948...