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I lived just up the way from the bakery in Athole St. I was about six years old and got mugged outside the bakery by two older lads who took the few pennies I had and my shoes. When did the bakery close? Was it taken over by a bigger company?

Joe Packer stayed with Tesco until @1982, he ran the big store at Five Ways Edgbaston, I was his warehouse manager and he was a great fella to work for.

Simply wonderful and many thanks for posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8 https://www.coca-cola.co.uk/brands/category/kia-ora.html

My father in law was one of the miners who helped dig out the poor children.

You are quite right, over the years I tried all sorts from squirrel to mopane worms, some was good, some not.

My dad 'Tiny' Baker was one half of the Rego Twins and was active on stage/panto in the forties and fifties and worked the clubs solo in the sixties https://images.birminghamhistory.co.uk/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=1948

Many thanks, I left in 1966. Memory is a strange thing, all I can remember about the School meals was the beetroot served with the salads, most children hated it and I loved it so scoffed all theirs.

Where did I say there was anything wrong with horse meat? Its good meat although overall not as good as beef but thats just my opinion.

I thought Fleur-de-lys were done for using horse meat in their pies or is my memory playing tricks?

I went to Chandos Road and still remember the painting of St. George hanging in the main hall. What happened to the painting?

Tinned ham and tongue perhaps, trifle, fish paste sandwiches, pickles, potato salad vol au vents maybe, salad.

I'm going back to brum in the new year for a few days, not been in a long time and I'll drop in for a pint. When my wife was a student she worked part time in a pub nearby, I think it was the Vine? Old Victorian pub with original tiles. Lunch time it was packed to capacity but by night there...

Is the arms still going? When a student in 71 I had a summer job with a local firm and on Friday we would drink most of our wages in there... hic.

Sinclair ZX80 @ 1980/1 and great fun it was too :)

Don't laugh but I collect paraffin stoves, Primus and the like and in fact have a couple of working Valor heaters :) Birmingham was the biggest makers of paraffin pressure stoves outside of Sweden where Primus ruled. One of the big manufacturers is still going but stopped making stoves back in...

My step father's father (my step grand dad) was heavily involved in psychic research many years ago. He was Fred Barlow and his photo collection is now at the British Museum in London.

Selly Oak Boy's School ? Edit. A link to Selly Oak Boys School thread is here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/selly-oak-boys-school.46540/

Interesting that Bosh is the Welsh word commonly used for wash house, I presume it was taken as a word by the influx of Welsh workers during the Industrial Revolution.

Great link, many thanks :)