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That clinic was where you had to go if you didn't have a dentist. It was indeed dreaded! We took the no.29 bus over to Handsworth where my mother had a dentist she had been with for years, so were spared the horror.

Thanks for there amazing photos - and memories!Our first telephone number was SPR3449. In the 40s I lived at 1004 Stratford Road, on Greetman Hill. My bedroom window looked out on the College Arms Bowing Green, which livened up early bedtimes on Summer evenings. My grandparents lived opposite...

When we lived on the Stratford Road, we walked up the hill, past the bungalows to York Road School. After we moved to School Road, we walked along the main road to Cateswell Road, then up either Russell or Edgecombe Road. I remember Sarehole Road well. We walked along it from the old house to...

And you still have it! I don't believe I won any prize while there. It was another world entirely, wasn't it?Whereabouts did you live? We obviously occupied much the same territory!

Thanks will visit!

I do agree with you about the bungalows. They were fascinating. One of my York Road friends lived in the second one from the left (I think that was the one). Subsequently, a physics teacher from Camp Hill GS moved there so all in all I got to know it quite well! I believe there was an air raid...

Yes I noticed that. And the bank with the bungalows. I used to walk up one of the steep paths every morning with my mother, on my way to York Road, to call fora friend who lived in one of them . I remember the winter snows when it was necessary to crawl up!

What a wonderful picture! I can just see our old house - at least, I think that's the one, just behind at the back of the tram. There were no trams when I lived there - or rails, as far as I recall. Many thanks. BTW FD, I saw 'Merry Andrew' at the Rialto and laughed like a drain - I can't...

Yes Mrs Crowther (as I remember her) with her red hair - played stirring Sousa marches to get us in and out of the halll in the morning. I was never in her class. I jumped into Miss Woolcocks (freckles!). She didn't like me much - preferred my twin brother and sister! Miss Pettigrew (is that...

I remember the house but not the boy. We are obviously a few years apart in age. It makes a difference at that age, doesn't it? Other older children I remember were neighbours of ours - Roger Moody and two Ranstead boys. Yes, York Road was a lovely school. I was sad to leave! My memories of...

Thanks for this! The Ducks were friends of ours. Christine used to take me and my brother and sister out for walks along Sarehole Road to Swanshurst Park. They were the first people we knew to have a television! Didn't Sylvia die when she was still young? I seem to remember my parents being very...

From 1943-1950, I lived at 1004 Stratford Road (just before the bungalows built on a hill, over what was once an air raid shelter ) on Greet Hill - just above the College Arms Pub. My bedroom looked out onto the pub bowling green, over a wall at the end of our garden. This made going to bed...

Some of those names ring bells - Christine Gatty, Lyn Bunch - and there are many more - Richard May, Ian Gourlay, Christopher Taylor, John Pickering, Geoffrey Price, Anne Read, Christine Rothera, Pauline Collins, Richard Grantham, the Mewis brothers, Michael Tullett and the Dones - then there...

The clue is in the name - I remember you!

It would have been1954 or 5. I remember an Elizabeth (surname began with C?), who went on to Camp Hill when I did. Not so sure about Angela or Lyn.

Sorry - this post wasin response to farmerdave!

I was at York Road school at the same time as you. Miss Dunton was headteacher. I remember her as small and quite stoutly built with awhite bun. She used to get very redin the face when she got angry, and once she stamped on her glasses in a rage! Mr Spencer was adear - very keen on all things...