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Wow. So proud of my home city. Watching from Australia, the whole ceremony was so professional and spectacular enough to rival any recent games of any note. For us on this forum it also covered so much history of our city, the things we made, ' from pins to a ships anchor' my Dad reckoned. Was...

Hi Malcolm, thought you went to comp as you mentioned many in your year who did so you wouldnt have known my sister. We lived in Frodesley Rd and yes I remember Vince the ice cream man, always happy that guy. Did you get the guy who sold toffee apples from a two wheeled cart, scrumptious.

Hi Malcolm, yes although a few years younger than you I remember my family talking about the big fight at my school. Bicycle chains and knuckledusters were mentioned i think. Teddy Boys, Elvis and Bill Haley, Marlon Brando when he played that part of a bikie. The world was beginning to change...

Thats what I got-I'll try again

Hey Doug, I have sent an email to you-might have gone to junk

Well I can say my life hasn't been dull. Yes Smithy did relent and turned the expulsion into a suspension after my Mum and Dad turned up at school to meet him. You would have laughed, there's my Dad with his leg encased in a plaster cast as he had broken it at work, limping about trying to get a...

Doug, guilty as charged. Someone I think Ian Burns phoned the Birmingham Evening Mail and made the claim, 'our headboy has been expelled for no good reason' and then it all blew up. I recall a reporter called me at home and asked a few questions. Before I knew it I had told him I was only up at...

Hiya Doug, Smith, couldnt remember surname but one of the few things I managed to do that year was write down the names of everyone. I am back row 2nd from right, Richard

That was a quick find-heres the photo

Hi Historynut, I was there same years as you and that photo looks like a few years before us. I have an end of year photo somewhere of the upper 6th in 1969. I will find it and post it for further discussion

I was just reading a post re, Mapledene School and noticed a name, Trevor Slater. Isnt it funny how names hang around in your memory. At the Comp. my sister was a few years older and all these guys from her year who played football for the school were like heroes to me when I started there. Some...

Wow, DB, Roger was/is a big success in his chosen profession and funnily enough I too was at Wolves youth for a while around 67 but unlike Roger I was a poor trainer and lacked the dedication needed and girls seemed a more interesting proposition. I knew Roger from back in the day and am proud...

Hi DB, yes we are now straight on the photos, my photo is of the Birmingham Boys team possibly u/11 or 13 cant remember. And yes that name Kevin Askey rings a bell. And I remember Roger Spry too from your photo, he was a pretty quick sprinter. Any recollections of BG Brazillia, I think most guys...

Sorry maybe we are talking different photos-this is the one to which I was referring which was possibly 1962 but I think you were talking of Bordesley Green Tech- however the young Butlin back row last guy on right, went there along with his brother John. I played Sunday football for their team...

Ok , I know most of back row- back left is Trevor Glynn, then Phil Mason, then dont know and dont now then Brian Harrison and Graham Butlin. Then front left dont know, then your guy, then dont know, dont know, then myself and because his name was so different Roger Couldjoe i think

Yes Malcolm those primary schools you mentioned formed the group from which the local representative team was chosen. The trials were at Mapledene I remember and I was fortunate to get picked. Something to be said for Mr Owens training methods eh?

Hi Guys, I attended Blakenhale Infants and Juniors from around 56-61then attended the Comp. I remember the glutinous frog spawn tapioca pudding sometimes with a colour like violet and baked trays of crusty pastry topped dishes served in rectangular trays, all served in the canteen which I think...

Interesting to read these posts about hat wearing. My opinion is that post war and early 50s hat wearing was still common but as the mid to late 50s took hold with Teddy Boys, Elvis etc there was a new breed of youngsters who wanted to dazzle with a hairstyle to show off. Some say it all changed...