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Used to walk along Kyrwicks Lane from Highgate Rd to go to The Alhambra picture house on Mosley Rd and went past the back of Hawley 's Bakery. When the bread was just out of the ovens they would bring out on large trays onto the loading bay for the vans to take it away. No wrapping, no covers...

Well it seems an improvement on what is currently there.

I was a kid when the film Henry V came out (1947?) with all those knights in shining armour. My Dad being the great bloke he was made me a suit of armour out of cardboard that he painted with gold coloured paint that he sprinkled with some glittering stuff. As he believed in wasting nothing he...

Hi, my Mom & Dad were married in 1930 and moved into 7 Tillingham Street shortly after. I was born in 1938 and lived there until 1961.Cant say I knew anyone in the street picture but I think those are our gutter pipes on the right hand side of the picture and the people would have been about...

Well you all seem to have enjoyed yourselves and what a great looking venue. With regard to the graffiti I don't always think they are in the best of taste but some show a great deal of talent. Cheers Tim!

Looking forward to seeing the photos! Have a great time!

Just to say that tin roofs are very common here in Australia, it's not a cost saving it's a bit of a fashion/choice thing. After a spell of hot/or dry period there is nothing nicer to hear than rain falling on a tin roof and knowing that life will go on. Cheers Tim.

Well another part of my past life pops up! Those bombed buildings on the corners of Mole St. Merrick & Heath( the one nearest the church) was cleaned up and went on trading as they were a glazing mob and must have been busy during the war. We used to take the lids off the large putty tins to use...

Hi Eric, made a bit of a mess with the quote, never mind eh! We seem to have had both, got a feeling that the Anderson shelters were out first and that they were free and that when the Morrison came out later you had to pay a nominal 30/-, but am prepared to be corrected. The night our house in...

I'm always surprised at what you find on here and today it was oldMohawk referring to his holidays at Arley . We used to rent a holiday home from our greengrocer towards the end of WWII and upto 1948. It was a single Decker bus that was being added onto (and therefore spoilt in my opinion but...

Gooday Ray, I may have name a bit on the wobbly side, a bit morphed with a Mr Shelldrake the Chemistry teacher at Handsworth Tech. Perhaps someone will help sort it out. My woodwork teacher was always doing marquetry (whilst we were left to follow his instructions) and didn't like being brought...

O happy memories! We had a Mr Marslake for woodwork. When the King George VI died and Elizabeth took over at the Till he told us how he had now lived under 6 monarchs as he was born when Victoria was on the throne. We all stood fascinated whilst he spent the rest of the lesson telling us his...

Ok , archie7 and robroy I think I have it sorted. Is it that Christ Church School either moved or opened an annex in an area between Braithwaite Rd and Claremont Rd and you could cross Stratford Rd, walk up Farm Rd and the turn left through a laneway into Claremont Rd. In such an event we as...

Hi robroy so you were about 9 years and a few streets away which in Brum could be like living on Mars I guess .Don't remember a school in Farm Rd but I don't think I would have been there since I was about 17 yrs old. Can't recall that climbing frame, but have trouble sometimes remembering where...

Sorry robroy can't recall that, what kind of date you looking at? Cheers Tim

Hi Archie, thanks for some memories! I now and again sing" Land of My Fathers" and recall a shapely leg in green woolen stockings and tweed skirt that Miss Thomas would place on one of the seats as she lead us in song. My god is that where I started going off the straight and narrow. I well...

Astonion you are so right about the decline and it's not just Brum or UK. We have it here in a nice rural area of Australia and our major cities are up to the neck in drugs! So sad all round. Cheers Tim.

Hi Ken, Well what about that then, as you say it had to be the same bloke. I don't have anything that I might have made, being the special 2 year course everything seemed to be compressed ( for want of a better word) to get us into the workforce. So we seem to have only made stuff applicable to...

Hi! Don't know if I'm allowed on here as I chose Handsworth Tech and was there doing the 2 year building course 1952/54. We had a teacher for metalwork and plumbing whose name was Killer Gilbert. He was maybe 45/50'ish ,dark hair receding, black moustache and drove a Sunbeam Talbot Sports...