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yes i remember the doctors surgery they had a nurse that used to call you in if she felt you should see the doc urgent there was a bookies next door and a baptist church opposite i used to live opposite direct coaches about 1953 ish. Cant remember a Baptist Church, There was a Methodist Church...

Re: Bordesley green yes i remember the doctors surgery they had a nurse that used to call you in if she felt you should see the doc urgent there was a bookies next door and a baptist church opposite i used to live opposite direct coaches about 1953 ish. Cant remember a Baptist Church, There...

Central Grammar school began its life in Suffolk Street this is why it was called Central but it later had various locations,first at Cherrywood Road and then with Byng Kendrick in Gressel lane.It was later known as Byng Kendrick Central then it merged with Sir Wilfred Martineau and became the...

Are you sure it was a Grammar School? the only one by the Pelham was Saltley Grammar afaik. But Alston Rd was close by, and thay had a 'posh' uniform. unlike most seondary schools round there at the time. If you cant find them at Saltley on friends reunited, have you tried local primary...

Could have sworn Central Grammar was in Gressel Lane..

Thinking about it, between Dyers, the shop on Cattell Rd next to the chip shop ( Richardsons ?? ) the one in Arsenal St, and a good few others, you could get hold of more or less anything till quite late. although there were some strange regulations about what you could and couldnt buy on...

When I was little, 50s / 60s everybody ate English breakfasts, chips, sausages, all fried in lard. Dran full milk or Stera (council house milk) Drank mild, had 2 sugars in tea. All the stuff you worry about now everybody was thin....Everybody went to work on foot, on the bus, or on a bike...

Anybody else remember Dyers, Shop up towards the atlas, sold things like car parts and electrical stuff I think, and used to repair radios / bikes / just about anything else... Used to charge an extra penny on everything after 7 pm.

The syruppy orange stuff that came in what looked like medicine bottles was orrible, I think it was only meant for small kids and pregnant women-possibly as a source of vitamins. But I think one r two people on here have got it mixed up with the orange squash in bottles like Pasteurised milk...

Sweet way to go gay ? No wonder they stopped selling ! 3 kinds of goodness ? After every meal ? Remember the welfare clinic dentists ?

How about aya as a greeting, used to hear it all the time, but you only hear it up north nowadays, seems to have died out in Brum. Must admit I still used the word Blartin with my kids when they started.

Your all in danger of sounding like your parents did a few years ago !

Havent got a clue what the connection might be, but istnt the top of Blake la/ Green La the highest point for miles around ?

Cascades, I been tryingto remember the name of that place for ages. I remember being in there around |Chistmas in about 73, there was a 3 piece band on, the guitarist had a black eye, The drummer was wearing a Rab Nesbitt style string vest, and the bass drum had been kicked in, but they were...

I remember a few TV documentaries about or at least includind the DZ, one called Miracles take Longer or something like that was used as a schools program I think. Wonder if any copies have survived.

There was a pub next to it called the Brighton, not sure if it had Gardens, but big pub so probably did. Still There, tried a look on google earth street view ?

Demolished about 1963 or 64. I got thrown out of the Cubs there after about an hour, must be a record eh ! Heres another pic, Theres a a supermarket there now . The Church on the corner of Jenkins St is still there I think, but I'm pretty sure that was a Babtist Church.

Question occurs to me, any way of finding out what was there before the House/Farm ? could it be that it was named after the place ?

Thanks for that !

I always though Dirty End was so called because of all smoke from the nail casting workshops in the area.