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HIG(444) Highbury, ACO(706) Acocks Green, SOL Solihull.

Mike, Happy Birthday!

Dave, I used to get a 1d, yes 1d, bun from the shop just beyond the "Ship". I see the 37 now goes to Acock's Green, how confusing. I had to walk down Camp Hill to catch a Coventry Rd bus under the rail bridge, or by the boiled sweet shop, troach? All a long time ago!

I feel secure with this view, the pavement on the right is where I poured out of school at 4.10pm in the 1950's.The tram lines were still there. My mind has not been confused with the "recent" developments. I expect buses to be yellow and blue, the occasional one to be red.

Hobmoor Rd school was more or less where "Yew Tree Retail Park" is on your map. The school towards the Swan was/is Church Rd school.

In 1950's the school was to the rear of Yew Tree pub seems it is now in Wash Lane.

I believe that my dad and his brother went there that would have been in 1920's. Some twenty years later I would go past Broad Road and walk down to the infant school in Westley Road in the village even though I was Christened at St.Mary's. Not sure if it is true but I seem to think that Gil...

Were they the buses that had very few seats and lots of space for strap hanging passengers.

George and Hilda

Waited "hours" at the bus stop in your second picture! How often a 15B would come along with a three bell load!

In 1950's I worked in the electroplating industry, we used various solutions containing nickel, copper, chrome, cyanide. I know that in 1960's new regulations meant an effluent treatment plant had to be installed. Would this mean that until this treatment plant was installed all this industrial...

I lived in Garretts Green and so could have staggered downhill to the tech BUT always got sent to techs elsewhere, Aston, Hall Green, Matthew Boulton (Suffolk St.), North, Gosta Green, so despite walking past GG daily I never ever went inside. Provided work for local moms for years, catering and...

My wife shocked to fail Eng Lit in '56 too, but was surprised to pass history.

I suppose Birmingham has been diverting the Severn to the Humber for years! Via Elan Valley!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/never-mind-the-h20-this-scheme-to-move-water-from-severn-to-thames-could-be-the-new-hs2/ar-AA18Y8I2?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f967ef3de1d4437a97cccd3f58632409&ei=13 A proposal to divert the outflow from Minworth from the Tame to the Avon, to top up the Severn...

I watched this youtube presentation which gave an encouraging account of what can be achieved. Compare this with the sad picture displayed in the recent Paul Whitehouse programmes "Our Troubled Rivers"

A link to "What do you watch on TV" March 2021 #544 et al. would be relevant to this thread. As that thread is closed I can't create the link.

Nay, that's when it's time to hop on the plane back to Kent!

St Michael and All Saints appears to be an active church. There will be church wardens who will have access to burial records, there may be someone who has mapped these burials and know if plots have been recycled.

Happened to be on "Talking Pictures" this evening. First saw it in a school lunch time film programme around 1954. Poem by W.H. Auden. Just had to buy a mail bag set up for Hornby Dublo train set!