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Barry, your name rings a bell. what number Glendon Road were you at? Were you in the first "lollipop" on our side, a couple of houses around from the house that had the green McAlpines trucks out front (maybe the Leas? All of the "modern" houses from that circle down had nice front gardens and...

Great memory! I was there from 1963- 1968. Mr. Webster was my first year teacher in Form 1M. He also set up a corner shop business on Marsh Hill, between Stockland Green and the girls school main entrance. I still have a book, the Children' Illustrate Encyclopaedia of General Knolwede...

I attended Marsh Hill from 1963-'68. My younger brother of two years Keith Arthur Smith is the first name on your list. My other brother four years younger than myself is Roger John. Smith The only trip that I went on were to the Tower of London. The language lab was in room 6 which was my...

Not exactly related to the schools at Stockland Green, but still these would have been very familiar sights for those of us who attended one of the three schools. I recall taking these photos in the mid-1960s. The image with the Plaza Cinema also captured the telephone boxes in front of the...

Tommy Lee outside our house in Glendon Road in 1974 with his Bedford HA van parked behind my Austin A60

Oh yes, the oral exams! I too was quite shy, so I felt out of sorts when I entered the exam room, to encounter a complete stranger. My parents vetoed taking German. Too many memories for them. We could only take French or German, not both. FWIW, I had considered entering the teaching field...

That was very much my experience at the boys' school too. There were no options between Modern Maths and prior teachings. I started at the top of my class and slowly but surely deteriorated to average! I am pretty sure that I would have passed the Maths "O" Level, but was assigned CSE for some...

I agree on the general intent of the types of schools. I believe that at the time I entered Marsh Hill, change was already in the wind towards that direction within our school, but the timing was too soon for the intent to be fully enacted during my time. I did however, receive a good education...

Vivienne, I attended Marsh Hill Boy's Technical Grammar School from 1963-1968. Regarding your wonderment whether the boys were prepared for technical trades, engineering etc. From my own personal experiences there, not so much. For the most part, our teachers were ex-university types, with few...

A new tram system?! The last time that I ever traveled by tram in Birmingham, was on the tram that used to be on display in the old Birmingham Transport museum in town! I was barely one year old! My Dad told me the story every time we visited the museum.

A little bit of trivia, In reference to Fort Dunlop. The commonly used term "Fort"was a misnomer, resulting from the use of Brummie slang. In the early days, factory workers came from all areas to work at Dunlop, many arriving by barges on the local canals. Arriving at each canal stop along...

Yes, Roger broke both his front teeth in a big V. Good memory! The Harris family moved in two doors away from our house, lived next to the Menears (sp?) Mark was the son and his Dad rode an ex-paratooper Corgi fold up motor scooter to work. There mom was pretty tough on them. The place to...

Yes, I remember it all pretty vividly. "lovely lad" indeed! VBG. Ah, Ford Anglias and Gold Star. The closest I got to owning a Goldie was a maroon BSA B34 that I never managed to get running. Looking back to a time when I "knew everything", I am pretty sure that the magneto was just putting out...

Yes, two younger brothers. Keith and Roger. Each of us were born two years apart. Keith in 1954 and Roger in 1956. We all went to Court Farm on Tedbury Crescent. You may recall a mound off to the side of the playground. It was a covered over entrance to an air raid shelter, just like the air...

Yes, that would be correct, especially according to the fading tattoo on my right arm. I left the nickname behind when I left England, but friends still around in England still call me "Butch"

Yes, Tommy rode a 350 Velocette MAC. I rode a 250 cc Honda CB 250 and Matthew had a Yamaha RD 250. I went to Cadwell Park with Matthew one time. Never again! In his teens, Tommy hung around Pete Smith's bungalow at the park, the asbestos ones on Court Lane. There was a group of us teens and...

Yes I did, from 1957-1963. Teachers from recall were Mrs. Keeping, Mrs. Gilbert, Ms Diane Clarke (Canadian from Edmonton), Mrs. Wales, Mr Hill and others I don't recall at this minute. Mr. Mortiboys seems to ring a bell as being one of my teachers. Mr's Dunscombe was the secretary. When Ms...

Thank you. I lived in Glendon Road off Short Heath Road until I was 22. It was a nice area back then. Things have changed and everything looked pretty glum last time I visited in 2004. During my childhood and teenage years there was a miniature village in the front garden of the house on the...

My Dad worked at Ansells for a short time. When I last visited the area in 2004 to attend his funeral, I recall that the former Ansells Brewery site at Aston Cross was a Mercedes dealership

My long time friend Thomas Edward Lee (Tommy) who was a year younger than me, attended King Ed. Aston. I entered Marsh Hill Boys' Technical Grammar School in 1963, so Tom would have been at King Ed at the same time as you, maybe even a class mate! I did visit the school once or twice, but...