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We must have known each other, at least by sight, Eddie. I went to Conway Road Youth club regularly. We were taught ballroom dancing in the early teens by a shapely lady. I recall enjoying a shot at the tango with her !!!! When the lesson was over we could dance with the girls who attended (to...

oldMohawk's upbringing sounds pretty much like mine. We played cricket, football, collected train numbers and namers, we hopped on and off local trains to find better spots to see more trains (usually knowing how to avoid paying), we wandered around the railway sheds at Tyseley and Saltley...

.. to add to my previous comments about Birmingham then and now...I went to Golden Hillock Road school,(1939 - 1943) currently in the centre of the Trojan Horse controversy. Despite being evacuated twice and up throughout the night in an air raid shelter many times, I passed for King Edwards...

I have to agree with you Cookie. I was born in 1933 in a house on what we used to call Kingston Hill, Coventry Road, Small Heath and later went to Ansell Road Sparkhill. I rarely go anywhere near the inner ring of Birmingham nowadays and, while I wouldn't swop my difficult war-time upbringing as...

Just read this.Not sure what it means but for me subject is closed.

I think the answer is probably 'yes' but I don't know about the Noel Edmonds thing but vaguely recall an expensive car...he was a character that's for sure..

OK Eddie. We're away from Thursday for about 10 days...so if I go quiet that's why. JAZZ drummer!!!! Can't believe it...Dennis

Re: Birmingham History My brother and I used to go shrapnel hunting when the all-clear had sounded during the blitz. We lived in Ansell Road, Sparkhill, not far from the BSA that was always a target for German bombs so there were plenty of 'souvenirs' to be found. Tony once picked up a whole...

WOW! How interesting is that? I would have loved to be a 'working musician'. Paper and comb was about my limit but I would have loved to be a jazz/swing drummer. My dad called me Mr Tapperton because when my brother Tony(also ex-Golden Hillock Road and Camp Hill) listened to music on the old...

My initial reply to this doesn't seem to have landed, Eddie, so to repeat in case it got lost in cyber space, I'm the same age as you, 81, so we could have been in the same final class of the juniors. The teacher was named Mr Watson and he didn't like me very much because I wasn't always well...

...it's one and the same person lads. Having gone to Camp Hill I had to leave because my dad was dying of cancer. I started work as a messenger boy on the old Evening Despatch two days before my 15th birthday on April 5 1948 and remained in journalism in all.manner of different roles until...

...thanks for the response Eddie...I knew Anderton Road very well of course...I published a book called MA SHAWS WARS about wartime life in that area...do you remember the Fallows Road fire when the Queens Gravy Salts factory burned down...and the terrible night when the BSA was hit?

All the recent publicity about Golden Hillock Road School has reminded me that, during the worst of the Birmingham Blitz, my later elder brother, Frank Shaw, saved the school from what might have been a very serious fire. He was about 17 at the time and used to wander around near where we lived...

...can't believe how good all your memories are, naming so many shops so I won't attempt to compete. A few recollections, though. I lived a short walk from the Piccadilly cinema when I was a lad during the war years and after. My brother and myself tried to go to every change of film. If it was...

Hi Radiorails...many of your recollections of the area are similar to mine...though I must correct one little memory lapse (don't worry, I get'em myself all the time...!). The road almost opposite Stoney Lane where the No.8 'bus route crossed, was Walford Road (home of the Embassy roller skating...

I was brought up in Sparkhill from 1936 until I left in 1958 and so the area you mention was very familiar to me before, during and after the war. I'm just going away for long week-end. Will help all I can next week. Will rack my geriatric brain in between!!!! Shawcross

Thanks for that, Astonian. In the 1960s/70s I had a lot to do with Aston Park Rangers Football Club for whom Charlie Tabberner and his friendly family were leading lights. I'm pretty sure that Charlie lived in Bevington Road. Also at that time a close friend and colleague, Barry James, lived in...

...I don,t think Bevington Road and Upper Sutton Street were ever the same road...I had friends who lived in each of them...they were two separate roads before the demolitions began.

I saw Miller Craddick play several times (and as a budding sports journalist,now aged 81,) talked to him more than once. Would be happy to help a little if I can...