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At 'Ragleth', Miss Dorothy Lennon, MRAD, MSTD, MISTD, was 'Miss Lennon'. At home Dorothy was Mrs Burrows. I am Peter, son on Dorothy . Dorothy opened Ragleth School of Dancing in 1938, she was qualified to teach in 1934, aged 16! She continued to teach until about 1980 when dementia reduced her...

The present bus system is much better than it has ever been. The new buses are much better faster, cleaner, warm comfortable. The timetables are mostly reliable though provision is sometimes odd - why so many 14s for instance. For people who pay (I am a pensioner ) I think fares, particularly...

I fondly remember Cliff Peters shop around 1960. Usually it was Dad or Mum you would find in the shop. Cliff could build a wheel by hand - no jigs, tight and true, few others could. He was a superb cycle mechanic but a lousy business man; he did too many favours, let people have stuff they...

I was not aware that there was a census in 1949. I have all relevant parts from the 1939 census which has been very useful as it has been updated into the 1950s as ladies have married and changed their names!

Another Erdington National School Photo. Here, Dad, Fred is 2nd row from front 3rd from Left with flower.

George Burrows was my Dad's Dad. I do not remember him at all. He died 1950 when I was 5. The pictures are remarkable and much appreciated. My Dad was somewhat isolated from his family for reasons I find difficult to understand. I have only recently found out I had 4 great uncles and two Aunts...

Yes, the house in the space 204. It's still there and occupied. I guess they don't keep pigs though, which my Dad did before WW1. The pumping station is now a modern square block with electric pumps. Until about 1930 it was a James Watt Beam engine. Grandad George Burrows started as a stoker and...

Erdington National School Probably taken 1910. My Dad, Fred H Burrows back row third from left, with frown. Lived in the Waterworks house at the bottom of Bleak Hill where his Dad was Engine driver.

My Mum who lived in Cato St. went to Loxton St, probably in 1923 and always had bad memories of her time there as a little child. As a sensitive, artistic, musical, dancer she needed something different and eventually found it through a private education and a career in Classical Ballet. My...