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You are right Sylvia, they were on those buff coloured cards that we called national insurance cards. Mine was green and our numbers were QCIH 205/1- 2-3. We had them during the war and long afterwards.

I was born in Hamstead, I'm sure I've bored everybody saying that so many times, I remember the Scot's as it was in the 40's when the family all met there on Saturday nights. I went in summer when I had a vimto in the garden with my cousin. Hamstead Hill, which is the top of Old Walsall Road, is...

Bournville is still lovely, we did a nostalgia trip and were bowled over by how it has stayed as beautiful as we remembered it. I posted photo's but I guess they were lost when the Forum was hacked.

I arrived and next day left from there last week, it is a b...... muddle in there. The taxi drivers are going to strike as they are losing business because of the lack of room to drop off passengers. In the year since I was last there in so far as the platforms go, work hasn't started. I think...

Here is my water colour of Christchurch Passage as many of us remember it

Our loved ones are never far away from us Lyn. Just a heart beat.

In Woodall Road where I lived, just a hop and a skip from 'Big Gee', we joined with Norris Road and I think Wenlock Road. We had a stage built at the junction of two roads, I think by evening when the 'turns' were entertaining us it had stopped raining. We youngsters were taken by coach early...

I am so very sorry Lyn, I can recall when you first posted on this Forum and you took your Dad on a trip tracing his roots to his younger days. Lovely memories of a much loved Dad.

I posted some Canterbury Road Centenary photo's a while back, I forgot I had done that. Jenni go to Chris M's post on the Canterbury Road School topic, if you haven't already seen it the headmaster Mr Chapman was in the Home Guard and Chris has done a good piece on him with a photo from the...

Image 2 the nissen hut in the foreground was Charles Dodgson's office. He borrowed me one year and I spent a pleasand month there working out the apprentice's bonus's

Image 3 that Mike has marked, to the left of Villa is St Peter & Pauls Church, Aston.

Image 5, the high building that cuts into the skyline on the left is an office block that was built in the 50's, it rehoused offices in the huts that are dotted round the site. Supply department where I worked was given two floors, eight and nine I think.

The building in picture 6 on your link Chris, the one on the right hand edge with the white bus parked outside is the Canteen, and the small one story building on the sports field is the School where we went on Day Release courses. The Pavillion holds lots of memories, Saturday night dances and...

I think Hillie was hoping Kit would play, Charlie. She was the most beautiful kitten and so sweet, she was covered in ticks which is the price ferral animals have to pay for their freedom, I sat outside with her and got rid of them. She has a kink in her tail which is how we've always managed...

A neighbours cat had her kittens in our barn, when she decided to move her family she left one behind. Our little Hillie was still a very young dog, she has always loved every other dog together with people, so when she spotted a tiny little kitten, which we had started to feed, she carried it...

I lived in Hamstead with an aunt during the war and she was the organiser of our street party, my memory is of Dolly Mixtures. I don't know where the women got them but they were the hit of the day. We had a bonfire that was built next to the air raid shelter, after which we had a family party...

Love the photo's Viv. There is a thread on ICI or, as we usually called the company, Kynochs. I think those lodges were probably built in 1915, and I have a notion that one of the Forum members lived in one of them. One of my Aunts worked in Tracer Bullet from about 1914 until she retired in...

I took photo's of Canterbury Road school at its Centenary in 2007. When the Forum was hacked all of the photo's disappeared, I can put them back if you would like them Jenni. Many of us Witton children went to the school.

I am sorry Patty, you are so brave and what lovely memories you have of your last year with Tony. Have a good holiday with your friend, God bless X

This is from A to A Administrative history: Aston Lane Board School opened in 1886 for girls, boys and infants, the Boys Department being housed in the former Alfred Street Board School which became part of this school. This school also housed a manual instruction centre for boys in...