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Good to see you looking well and enjoying one of Wye Valley Brewery's excellent products.

As far as I recall it stopped after the school moved . There was no similar location where sherrins could be penned in.

And having been herded into said hole, unaware of what was to follow, were bombarded with whatever detritus older pupils had to hand. Not a pleasant experience!

Seems like yesterday, monkey hole on the left.

I seem to remember that Velocette motor cycles were made on the same site as Charles Hill's factory. Also, my less than totally reliable memory places MEM at the corner of Reddings Lane and Olton Boulevard West.

I remember Paynes but nothing around the corner in Summer Road. However I do remember turning right into Shaftmoor Lane where Guest's the barber was. Mr Guest also repaired umbrellas. His assistant Ron Osborne usually cut my hair and, many years and a few house moves later, I ended up living...

Just found a reference and location plan of a WW2 Heavy Anti -Aircraft Gun site where the Robin Hood Camp site is shown on the map posted earlier. I wonder if anyone has a family memory of this.

Great photos and having travelled along Yardley Road over many years , I'm certain that the building with the archway is on the site of the builder's yard. Looking back over previous posts, it seems the City Estates Officer made some attempt to find a user for the old building before seeking...

Thanks for letting us see the map. Interesting to see "Robin Hood Camp" in the middle of the site. I wonder what it was, any ideas? The filter beds could be related to some sort of sewage treatment which might be appropriate if the buildings shown were occupied.

I moved to this area in 1962 as a teenager and used to take my dog for a walk over the undeveloped land where the Langley Hall estate was later built. It is definitely a 60‘s development. The Golf Course clubhouse was opposite the Gospel Oak pub before it was relocated to the other side of the...

I'd forgotten about the Railway Mission next to the bridge and there was Fraser the fish and chip shop just along from Greens.

I remember some of the shops at the Fox Hollies end of Spring Road . Len Minton greengrocer, Horniblows drapers?, Greens butchers Bowsteads newsagent. Also an off-licence and sweet shop near to the railway bridge

I remember trying to play on the courts at the old school but there was no booking system and we were usually evicted by older boys. When we moved to Kings Heath there was a booking system but by then other interests had taken over. Google Earth shows one of the Camp Hill courts still in use...

Brings back memories. Can’t place Polly Bates’s companion. Could it have been Bert Blackshaw who taught German ?

E.J.(John) Davies

I went to Yarnfield School 1946- 1954. Dr K or Kaczmarska was a Polish doctor who , I think replaced Dr Essen. The surgery moved further up Spring Road towards Bowsteads paper shop. Dr K died in mysterious circumstances

Just came across this thread, so good to hear of names from the past, many almost forgotten. Sorry to hear of Johnny Cleak‘s death, can‘t be (m) any more masters left from my time there, 1954-1959.

When I lived in Hattersley Grove in the 40/50s, the land behind the houses at the head of the cul-de-sac was used as allotments. It was subsequently developed as Tean Close in the 70/80s. An old plan of the housing development in the 20s showed the outline of a moat where the allotments were...