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The Electoral Rolls for the 50's/60's will tell us. I will have a look tomorrow, it has been a while since I looked at them and I have to figure it out again.

Not sure what happened Jean, I think I've done it now. Just ignore the attachments.

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I put a painting of Birchfield Road in the Art section,. It went in the hacking so it seems apt to pop it back here.

Yes Jean , I lived in Nechells for a while and got off the bus in Perry Barr and walked down Franchise Street to Kynochs every morning I remember the shop but not the name.

This is a lovely thread, I lived in Stoneleigh Road, which is just down a little way from Birchfield Road, from March 1957 when we were married until we left Birmingham in late 1959. I did all my shopping there, at the Co - Op, Wimbushes, Dodds, Englands for my shoes. So many memories on here...

Enids' was in Birchfield Road. I can't remember names now Kate, Enid had names for people. I know one of the lads I liked she always called Bright Eyes. My girl friend who I always went with was Barbara Jackson, she later got medals with a partner from Enids'

Sorry Jean, I meant Enid Goodwins' where we all went dancing in my day!! A bit further up from the Odeon on the other side of Birchfield Road.

I guess they are the neighbour's of Enid's Jean !!

It was a different world, a few years hence and it all changed forever.

Love the photo of New Street, the blinds at the shop windows were still in place when I was growing up and Adam was still a lad!!

Hi Grahame, I will ask my sister Jenn if she remembers a car or motorbike, she was there in the infants at more or less the same time as you were. I do wonder if perhaps Mr Broadhurst had a motorbike?

The building in New Street was on the corner of Cannon Street, now Ted Baker's. The photo is the original sign over the doorway. You can still read it but it is very faint now.

'Taint me!!

I don't remember any of the staff having a car, Grahame, even the senior school teachers. I wonder did Mr Chapman travel by train, Perry Barr to Walsall? Not sure if the line went that way, and then possibly the bus out to Pelsall.

Yes Paul, a shooting brake. A lovely warm summer day and everyone dressed up to go shopping, not a pair of scruffy jeans or a hole in sight.............. I bet my late mother in law is there somewhere.

I was looking for something else when I found this thread. The link from Chris's post is about my lovely headmaster Mr Chapman and it is worth reading if you have a few minutes. Little did we know that when we left school our head was travelling to Pelsall and often meeting his Home Guard Unit...

That is so very 30's Viv, by the time we were all going there in the 50's it had been bombed, the photo on 73 shows 'our' KD. I think the entrance to the basement was through the door on the extreme right. Thanks for bringing this thread forward, I have enjoyed reading it and seeing posts from...

It is a small world Wendy, I loved being in Hamstead because a lot of the family were there. Now there isn't one of us lving there, or in fact not many of us living anywhere!! The place was full of gully's, we used to cut off Old Walsall Road and nip across a field into another Uncle's house in...