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Happy birthday Pete have a super day!

Happy birthday, have a super day

It was quite common in my childhood to be taken to the pub with parents or grandparents and be given and bag of crisps and a glass of pop and told to play outside. There were always lots of other kids doing the same. I got to go to a few interesting places including The Golden Cross Short Heath...

It was, but then changed to 0121, but cannot recall when.

Thank you, thats kind of you to say so.

There you go Pen

I love the job title that goes something like Head of Strategic Planning or Planning Strategy etc. Commonly used in public bodies. Most people with half an ounce of business knowledge will know this is an utter contradiction, with strategy being a theory and planning a known quality. Two...

Edgbaston Pool with the golf course on the left and Winterbourne Gardens to the right

Robert, the older boy by about four years who would push insisted we sit on the outside under pain of death.

There was an older lad over Short Heath Park, Robert who would get in the middle of the cobweb roundabout and would spin us around at an astonishing speed. He did it so fast you would feel the blood drain from your head due to the angular momentum. I can remember almost passing out.

Happy birthday Brenda. Have a super day

Happy new year to all of our staff and members.

I think a lot of people comment about a golden past that never was. I too recall a lot of litter on the tracks at news Street and lots of other places too in the 60’s. There were constant don’t drop littler campaigns in schools and on TV.

Is that a cycling track I can see around the pitch?

The park now has an electronic key fob system

Dunlop were an impressive company once. They seemed to make everything and the Dunlop logo appearing everywhere. From car tyres to aeroplane tyres, all sorts of rubber goods to sporting goods and even fashionable spots clothing items. Just wondering where it all went wrong. They did seem to...

Yes I thought so too

It looks like social housing but those archways over the balconies are something I have not seen before. The lampposts are similar to other I have seen in Birmingham, but they look quite tall. There is a lot of new housing around the church now, so maybe its all be demolished and rebuilt.

Looks like the old Fort Dunlop building in the background Viv

That’s good news and a win win for you too. Building with a past have an enhanced value and are far better than if taken alone if the temporal, the local and the historical references are missing. We were quite quick of the mark where I live and took the opportunity of forming a conservation...