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Saturday morning detention at Yardley Grammar School around 1960 for either playing football in the lunch break or caught smoking or both. Dear me - misspent youth!

Settling already here in Sutton Coldfield and heavy snow predicted throughout the night. Expect to find a fair coating in the morning.

Janice. The bus stops I'm referring to are those just short of Palmerston Road and far enough away from that corner to allow the 13 and 13a to make a right hand turn into Stoney Lane before Stoney Lane was re-routed to opposite Walford Road. I think the hotel was just before the bus stops coming...

Yes it was by the bus stops. It certainly wasn't a high class establishment.

I remember it. Next door to the Baptist church which was on the corner of Stratford Road and Palmerston Road, Sparkbrook

Sorry JonJB. I don't have that information.

In my years in the North Works machine shop the castings we were working on were A series, B series and, from circa 1978, O series. I hope that helps.

I worked in the North Works machine shop and was gone by 1979. I had friends and acquaintances all over the plant and I'm not aware of a foundry in the East Works in my time there. However the factory was running for 26 years after I left and I couldn't vouch for the years after I left. I just...

The foundry was North Works, next to the North Works machine shop.

Yardley Ex Service had a Sunday football team in the Coronation league for years back in the 70s. Not sure when that team finished.

Happy Birthday Janice.

I think the pub's The Adam and Eve. The Anchor's further down on the corner of Rea Street.

Viv. There would have been a lot of changes in that area to accommodate the big island called Bordesley Circus and the bypass, Small Heath Highway which was created to relieve the traffic on Coventry Road. It completely changed the landscape in that area.

My memory, and I hope I'm correct, is that Bolton Road ran in a straight line to the railway bridge as seen on #66 where it joined what I think was Bordesley Park Road. I can't help with the dates of re-routing though.

I can see the dark space you're alluding to Janice but I am looking at the patterned area in isolation. There are many features in the photograph that could be inclusive or viewed as separate entities. In suggesting that the patterned area may be the side of a railway bridge I am viewing it in...

I thought that the structure with the pattern which it has been suggested could well be the side of a railway bridge could be exactly that. I can't see a gable end or a door. Maybe I'm missing something. I can't think why it would have a pattern on but I still think it could be the side of a...

The lie of the land and the buildings far off in the distance put me in mind of the bottom of Bolton Road, Small Heath as it goes down to Coventry Road. Just speculation though.

The title of this thread is most satisfying. The original name of the station, Small Heath and Sparkbrook is important to me and, maybe others. It brings back memories of GWR and all it stood for. The other side of Golden Hillock Road on the corner of Anderton Road was where we train spotters...

Bricklyn Farm and Bricklyn Cottages are separate properties in Bulls Lane. Bricklyn Farm entrance is opposite Wishaw Lane. Bricklyn Cottages is actually one property on the opposite side of Bulls Lane around 100 yards down from Bricklyn Farm entrance. I was the rural postman in Bulls Lane for...

I lived in the adjacent Dolobran Road from my birth in 1945 until I got married in 1965 so I have relatively good memories of the 50s and early 60s. I can't recall any war damaged property although there were newish flats and maisonettes at the start of Grantham Road from the corner of Farm...