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This photograph is from the playground of St. Peters school, showing a side entrance to the church.

I've seen a program where a man named as Eddie Fewtrell, was the center of the dispute,

No accounting for taste

My sister and me, used to eat ovaltine in its dry state.

I remember being taken to the Monument Road Child Welfare Centre when I was four, to be weighed,measured for height and given orange juice and castor oil.

I think there was a real shoot out between a Birmingham criminal gang and the Kray brothers gang from London around Snow Hill.

Two students from my year went on to the Royal Acadamy.

The students to the Graphic Design and Illustration and Printmaling course, [which was over two years], came mostly from Bourneville and Sutton Coldlfield Art Schools, and a few from the Coventry area.

Churlish not to say thank you

I think Birmingham Art School taught drawing painting and sculpture in the early sixties. It's principle was Christopher Hawes. The Photography department was located at Great Barr, and the Graphic Design and Illustration and Printmaking Departments were located over a car showroom on the corner...

I was a student at Birmingham School of Art and Crafts in the 1960's. I studied graphic design, and we had classes in painting and life drawing at Margaret Street.

This is a drawing I did at Hendon of a beaufighter

I remember standing waiting on Platform 6, feeling the train approaching through my feet, as the platform slabs vibrated. We were on our way to Weston Super Mare.

On our way back from swimming lesson at Monument Road, municiple baths, I saw a large, rather heavy Father Hugh Montgomery, on his bicycle grinding up the hill from King Edwards Road to St. Peters Church, with the Solex adapted bicycle , the brim of the hat flipped up and the black gaberdine...

Wasn't there a French engine mounted over the front wheel called a Solex?

I began my working life as a go for in an advertising agency at 16. The agency hadt he BSA and Vincent motorbike accounts. Quality in colour photographic prints lerft much to be desired. So the agency had a lovely old man, I think in his seventy's, to air brush colour onto a Black and white...

I think it is good for Birmingham. When I left England to work in Sweden, I was amaze my appartmemt had double and even triple glazing. No more steamed up windows. Our contact however tenuous with Europe is good for us. Brexit I think was a disaster. Headlines on newspaper stands " Fog in the...