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I was at Yardley Grammar School mid 50s to early 60s and we had our speech and prize giving evenings there too. Perhaps many schools did.

Wire drawing is a very specific trade, predominantly around the Sheffield area I think. Latch and Batchelor in Hay Mills are an historic company plying that trade as was FA Power (GKN) in Adderley Road / Landor Street. I'm not aware of any more wire drawing companies in the Birmingham area.

Hi Dennis Thank you for the photo. I'm quite sure that will be the same place. It's many years ago that I discussed it with my father so I clearly got the name slightly wrong. My father was born in the parish of St Martins and was christened and married at St Martins Church so, as well as being...

My father was a night sorter at Birmingham Head Post Office for many years up to the late 1970s, sorting mail for Birmingham 1-5. In conversation he would make reference to Fire Engine Passage which he considered to be almost unknown. I wonder if the reference to "Fire station" in #85 has any...

It all looks very different to the 50s and 60s but quite clearly well used. My mother, who was born in 1915 and lived all of her life on the edge of the park, could remember the pool which she told us was filled in due to a tragic drowning accident, and that would be pre WW2. She could also...

Just reading through this thread so it's a very late contribution to this subject. I had a friend who moved onto Castle Vale in 1966 and, during his time there we used to drink in The Trees. As it was run by an unusual brewery for the area, I enquired about it and this is what I was told. It's...

Still shopkeepers then Janice but more global! Thanks for the pics.

That's great RobT. Thanks for the response and the info. I assume that P.H. Rain at 511-513, which is listed as a stationers must have doubled up selling knitting wool and accessories. It's where I remember it; just along from Westwood's greengrocers. The lists demonstrates our reputation as a...

I can remember that among the row of shops between Palmerston Road and Walford Road, Sparkbrook were, first, a haberdashery shop (name not remembered), Greens record shop, a picture framing shop, Cotterill's Ironmongers (always wearing a shirt and tie under his grey dustcoat), Dyson Richards...

Hello Trant It was taken whilst we were in the 3rd year and in early summer so the year would be 1960. Clive

Amongst my YGS memorabilia, which I have managed to keep safely for nigh on 60 years, is the attached photo which is of poor quality and very grainy. It is class 3a (Form Master Mr R M Stokes) and taken at the War Memorial Hut at Wellsbourne in 1960. I think that only one class at a time...

I lived on the edge of Farm Park which was the playground of my childhood and early youth. There was a vast area referred to as the "black patch" which accommodated the local free for all of football in the winter and cricket in the summer. It was on Dearman Road side of the park. The boulder in...

Hi Sheila. I can remember your dad behind the shop counter as if it were yesterday. That's a great photo of Raymond which I'm sure you treasure. Neighbours looked out for each other in those days and Skinner Street was always very clean from my memory. Not much litter in those days. My brother...

My grandma and aunties and uncles lived, respectively at 17 and 18 Skinner Street. At 17 lived Alfred and Lavinia Harris and at 18, Arthur and Alice Gillman and my grandma. 17 was the last back to back and 18 let out onto the courtyard that adjacently joined Skinner Lane and Skinner Street. I'm...

I'm reasonably sure that this building was used as a training facility by the GPO in the 1950s although I don't have any more information as the people who mentioned it to me are no longer around to ask.

I was at Montgomery Street from 1950 until 1957 and then to Yardley Grammar School 1957 until 1962. Mr Brazier was indeed an inspirational headmaster. My enduring memory of him was his entering a classroom and asking the class "What is the heaviest, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?"...

My parents lived at 93 Dolobran Road and occupied that house from 1946 until my father's death in 2000. Most of our family attended Christ Church and supported many associated events in the adjacent Memorial Hall, including the annual summer garden parties and Christmas bazaars. It was very much...

I well remember your accident. I came round your house on the evening to check you were okay. I only lived walking distance from you. I doubt you would remember that though.

I've been involved in football ever since leaving school. The only years of my life from 10 years old until now that I wasn't involved were the years at YGS where the round ball game was anathema. I'm currently Secretary of Boldmere St Michaels FC. What I would say about YGS is that it was a...

I'm Clive Faulkner. At YGS 1957-62. I was in forms 1b, 2b, 3a, 4a and 5b and Folliott House. We used to play soccer in our lunch break at our peril either at the far end of the playing field or sometimes at Formans Road Rec. Can't remember all the aspiring football stars but Roger Tarver was one.