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We think we know all the moles in MI6, but who were the moles in MI5, the people responsible for monitoring illegal radio transmissions.

Thanks very much, spot on. Ursula Kuczynski lived at Great Rollright in Oxfordshire, and transmitted information to Moscow from there. Chapman Pincher wonders why her transmissions were never picked up.

A communist spy used to meet Klaus Fucks in a coffee bar opposite Snow Hill Station, Which in the 50's must have been the Kardomah.

I am not suggesting anything, I am repeating what Farther Montgomery said to me.

That's one year after the Battle of Hastings. I asked Father Montgomery if he was related to Field Marshall Montgomery, He said "He was a distant relation",

Father Montgomery told me he was a distant relation to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. I feel it was ironic, that the Montgomerys invaded England from Normandy in 1066 and Bernard Montogomery invaded Normandy about 900 years later.

Firing rockets out of milk bottles and blowing steel dustbin lids into the air with tupenny thunder flashes.

Over the confessional box Father Montgomery used, was a long strip of carboard. On it was written the languages he could hear confession in. There were, I remember counting over ten, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Serbo-Croat. I can't remember the rest.

Bonfire night In Alexandra Street Ladywood was celebrated on a piece of derelict land in the street, probably bomb clearance from the war, wood was collected from any source and assembled into a mound over the preceeding weeks. With a guy on top the fire was lite just after dinner. it was still...

The altar boys at St. Peters were taken by Farther Monrgomery to a pilgrimage to Evesham on a very wet Sunday. The rain eventually went through our gabardine raincoats and we were soaked. On our way back to Birmingham, with our raincoats drying, hanging from the luggage rack he asked us what...

I honestly can't say

Montgomery, Hugh Edmund Langton Contributed by McElroy, Gerry Montgomery, Hugh Edmund Langton (1895–1971), diplomat and priest, was born 30 October 1895 at Blessingbourne, near Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, eldest among three sons and three daughters of Maj.-gen. Hugh Maude de Fellenberg Montgomery...

Does anyone remember Father Hugh Montgomery>

When I was 8 on Christmas Eve I went with my father to Hickmans to buy a turkey, a cold night with frosted pavements.

Sometimes as an altar server I was responsible for the thurible. The incense was intoxicating.

The little chap on the left is Raymond Ward, who lived in Garbett Street and went to St. Peters RC School

I have a picture of Garbett Street if that's any help.

I saw a Red Squirrel in the park in 1952, now they are only in Scotland and I think in the Isle of Wight

I think your heart is in it.

Yes I remember, it came once a week West Boulevard and also a mobile library. But my aunt who lived on the boulevard shopped in Harbourne and the city for her sister my mother who lived in Ladywood. I would visit my aunt in Quinton and take the number 10 bus home.