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In our area Stockland Green we played many of the games mentioned in the above threads. I remember playing L-O-N-D-O-N, Release, Hide and Seek, Hopscotch, marbles and rounders. We had different rhymes for picking the person to go first, etc.

Hi David Williams: You can access the Friends Reunited site and see photos, lists of pupils who attended Upper Thomas Street School over the years who have signed on to that site.If for some reason you can't access this site you can Google FriendsReunited.co.uk and find it that way after signing...

Hi Peter: It's best to private message David Williams through the site. If we leave personal e-mails on the site they can be picked up and used by outsiders.

I remember going to shows in Aston Park via Arena Theatre and probably Rookery Park as well. It was great entertainment.

Bit about J & T Walsh and what they did. There is a similar picture on this site: https://www.dalybuilders.co.uk/history.php

I liked this article about the re-dedication of a plaque commemorating the lives of 120 Birmingham Co-operative workers who lost their lives in WW2: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-home-war-dead-plaque-7228220?ptnr_rid=40651&icid=EML_BirminghamMailDailyNews_UKNewsTitle

Yes, it was Parkes. My Mother was a secretary to Mr. Peter Parkes, a great gentleman as were all the Parkes men. Peter Parkes loaned my Mother a typewriter so that I could improve my typing speed before starting my first job. Never forget that. The company were very forward thinking in many...

It was the Safe Harbour Lyn and referred to as the Grave Diggers Arms later on.

OldMohawk: I remember where just about all of the Beechnut Chewing Gum Machines that were in Erdington back in the 1950's. The nearest one was around the corner at Bramley's Confectionery shop on Stockland Green. I was always using them. I also remember going on the train to Bournemouth in the...

I remember watching baseball games with teams in full regalia in Witton Lakes Park, Erdington in the 1950's.

Couldn't find much on McDougall's Flour. This site says there isn't much information available overall: https://togethertrustarchive.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-flour-connection.html Bit more on Grace's Guide about McDougalls. No information of the Brum factory.https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/McDougalls

Hi Old Joe: I think you must mean Pinfold Street and Navigation Street. Here is an overall aerial photo of the area. https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_str1295a.htm I know there is a Post Office on Pinfold Street. May be someone else might have a street level photo of the area...

Hi Hateley: If no one has any info on the Villa Supporters Club meetings that were held at The Guild on the corner of Ettington and Witton Roads, John Lerwill has and excellent Aston Villa history site and you can certainly contact him on his "Ask John" link...

Bit about The Rivals written by Mr. Burgess. Hope he can find the band members he is looking for. https://www.brumbeat.net/rivals.htm

Hi Lyn: It's the middle of a very warm night and I came to the Forum to cool down in my office. You may remember that I e-mailed Carl Rice, Councillor for Ladywood after he informed me about the completion of the restoration of the St. Thomas Peace Garden. I thanked him and asked him who to...

Hi Andygeorge: Some info on Harry Hampton which you may already have seen at these sites. Do you know if he belonged to the Royal Worcestershire Regiment. If not which Regiment did he belong to...

Hi Bernard: There is an in depth Architects report by Howl and Associates of Tamworth on the work at Waterstones,Stephenson Place in the form of a pdf file. There is also one by the Planning Department,Birmingham City Council. The Birmingham Council's pdf has a lot of photos and the history of...

Bit posted some time ago by Frothblower re the Green Man and the Crown pub in Digbeth: Dendrochronology testing at The Lad In The Lane puts it's start date as Spring 1400. Dendrochronology testing was tried at the Old Crown at Digbeth unsuccessfully. Historians put it as 1480's. The Lad as...

Re: Birmingham History Great story Roy. That you made the team was special I'm sure. It wasn't easy to get picked for sports teams at school I know.

Re: Birmingham History Great story Roy. That you made the team was special I'm sure. It wasn't easy to get picked for sports teams at school I know.