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Roy Blakey Busking at the Aston Hipp and here: https://www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk/roy_blakey.html#busker

Re post #6 that is an old version of the site, try here https://www.the-summerlane-kid.co.uk/ And here https://www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk/newsummerlane/otherschools.html

Could th school be St Matthias?

Probably about 63 when he was 15

I remember going to Saturday lunchtime sessions at a pub which must have been the chapel and seeing a fifteen year old Stevie Winwood playing some great piano

I lived in Cooksey Road in the early 60s with a bath in the kitchen under a detachable work surface. A luxury for me not having lived in Handsworth. It was a tin bath for twenty odd years in Guildford Street then about three years with a proper upstairs bathroom in a council house in West Heath...

Sorry I missed the Stones in the Park at the weekend but I was at the original one in the sixties

Post #13 - should that read Cridge family?

PreDip in 1964 was based in two old schools were based at one but spent time at each. Cotteridge, my main base, for 2D work and somewhere in town, the one I can't remember where, for 3D work.

That's the film. We did a lot of experimental work in Summer Row and I did a fair bit of welding on PreDip but I concentrated on painting at Margaret Street and Goldsmiths. I kept my DipAD as I thought it would become a sort of rare qualification representative of the sixties. Luckily I could...

A great memory Speedwing. The roof of the Summer Row building was great as you could walk across it an drop through the roof into an empty house there. On our first year of fine art we we sent on a day a week fo about six weeks to the painting and decorating school. A great time and helped me a...

I got a couple of jobs first and started Predip when I was 23. I am glad I did as if I had gone straight from school DipAD hadn't been developed. Before it started in 1963 the qualification was the Intermediate (the Intermediate Certificate in Art and Craft, thr precursor of PreDip or...

Some information on Gosta Green here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_University

Sorry A Sparks but around the early sixties there was an art degree equivalent, the Diploma in Art an Design (DipAD) which could be converted to and became a BA in the late sixties. In the early sixties as I remember, Fine Art and some Graphics were at Margaret Street. The main Graphics, and...

Re: the peaky blinders No council houses in the twenties Slatertim

Re: the peaky blinders A great program albeit stylised. A bit scary though as I have drunk in the Garrison Tavern; in the fifties though not the twenties. Two of my sisters' husbands lived in the area, both cousins. One from Irish stock and one from Italian stock.

Just made the connection with Flickr, will email over the weekend. Many thanks

Not at all; maybe inside though. Great stuff mossg

Many thanks Topsy's, I've changed it. Yes, it's amazing

Picture from #108 could be the playground of Burbury Street or of Gower Street. What is certain is that my brother Alf is standing in the middle; fantastic!