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Dad made his own ginger beer for years. The shop bought ginger beer for children was in little brown bottles

Ours was hanging on the fence outside our kitchen door until we had a bathroom built when I was 10 or 11 yrs old. They knocked the outside toilet and coal store down to build the bathroom off the kitchen.

At least I was fit when I had a classroom only accessible by going down one flight of stairs then up two

Top left hand double windows. My room for a year in '73 I think it was. Climbed a lot of stairs that year.

I remember a trip to the zoo, and that I was almost sick with excitement as I walked to school. We had a long walk to and from school as we were then living by the Gate Saltley, having moved there from near the school. I used to go home for lunch so the walks kept us fit. Mind you, I often used...

I went to Marsh Hill Boy's together with one other boy from my class. Others I knew went to Saltley Grammar and Mosely Art School. Some of my closest friends went to Washwood Heath Secondary, and I managed to keep in touch with them through our secondary school years.

Hi. I was in the junior school until '63. Miss Bunker took us for country dancing and 'encouraged' us, with the odd thump in the back, to keep in step as we went past her. Mr Sheen was a bit scary too, but my favourite teacher was Miss Wilde. I was in her class for the two years before I left to...

MyHeritage is good at faces, but turns most army uniforms a shade of blue. It did a good job on my grandad's face. The original was taken during WW1 and in sepia

My father worked there just after the war when he was demobbed. He studied welding and moved on to Birwelco which was nearby

I was in the '63 entry. On leaving and saying I that was going to teacher training college, I too was told not to come back, and not to choose the school for my teaching practice.

I remember seeing it being built in the prep room between the two physics labs

My ears are still burning from the times we had to use the language lab. The headsets weren't too ear friendly. I remember how we tried to cheat the system by looking at the teacher's eyes. He used to listen in from his desk, but you could see where he was looking and make an extra effort when...

My sister was one in the early 60's. She left school and trained to use one, to have some skill to offer. If you asked her a maths question at home her hand would automatically try to find the comptometer keys even though they were back at the office.

I wonder if anyone remembers the art teacher who used to sing cowboy songs in the middle of art lessons. He may only have been there a short time. One which has stayed with me is, 'Whoopee ti yi yo, get along little dogies It's your misfortune ain't none of my own Whoopee ti yi yo, get along...

I went to the Girls' School for A level Biology as well as for their 'student survival cookery' course. I also went a few times to learn to type for the school magazine

Mom always took us to Lewis's to see him. I remember one year, must have been '59 or '60, when we had to go in a space ship to see him. We sat inside while it blasted off and landed next to him. I remember being puzzled why we were still in the shop when we got out of it. The magic of being...

I enjoyed doing the Christmas post as a student in the early 70's, getting in early to do the sorting first, elastic bands on groups by street and then out to deliver. I was young and fit and enjoyed every minute. The strange thing was I got to resent those houses where lots of letters, cards...

Thanks for this. I'm on it for maths and remember going on stage to get my prize, a chemistry book which I got told off for, with a smile on his face, by the guy giving the prize who was a mathematician. He suggested I should have chosen a book on mathematics.

I remember Akela coming to see me when I was in hospital after having my appendix out when I was 10. Nice chap

I read that, thanks. I can still picture him at the piano playing pub tunes during his tests. I remember him showing slides of the then new Birmingham Bull Ring, saying that he had taken the pictures while the bus driver was changing gear- those old buses which I remember well too.