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As they say Wagon Wheels are a treat for me! This is a lovely walk down memory lane for me. Never got to see the cafe, a deprived childhood, best tell Ester Rantzen and contact Social Services.

Hi, I never ever saw the other pool, did they divide it? whatever, it was my idea of hell and I must bow to you superior knowledge. Went to Moseley Road once and that was equaly as revolting. My mother finaly took me to the new and swanky baths at Tudor Grange which was glassed walled and a lot...

That is definitely Mrs Downing who later on lived in, I believe, a foundation house on the opposite corner to the Red Lion pub, she used to have one or two Pug dogs that she would walk in the school grounds. She was a lovely kind lady.

Hi Don, one small point and not being pedantic Alan Cholmondeley was a tail gunner in WW2 showing his extreme bravery sat in a gold fish bowl waiting to be shot. He was a fantastic headmaster who had the discipline to silence a whole corridor of 300 boys just by his very appearance. He suffered...

I'm fascinated, don't think the Millingtons had any other contact with the area, they had a daughter who became a veterinary nurse in Solihull. I tend to only come into contact with water in the shower or bath!

Am sure that is Geoff Saunders who later became Deputy Head before becoming Head at K E Five Ways.

Think Mr brown took woodwork later on and became known as"Harry The Plank"?

Will look forward to hearing from you, who cares how many baths there were, I'd have hated them all. My mother taught at Yorke House for 2 years to keep it going, there was only one year, what they call Year 6 now, for the last year as the Millingtons could not keep it going, he was a local...

Geof Saunders went on to beome head of K E Fiveways after being joint deputy head with Harry Greenaway at Camp Hill. I remain a great friend of Tony Jackson who was what we used to call caretaker but took on many responsibilities for all aspects of the School, he recently retired but has given...

Hi Dave, thank you for your welcome, I well remember McEwans, I think you had to knock the door and the lady who ran the shop would come from her sitting room which was behind the shop. I will look for the Camp Hill thread, guess you will remember Len Bowles, Dennis Marsden an Alan Cholmondeley...

No one has mentioned that in the 60s or 70s ATV news reader Pat Astley owned the petrol station on the hill up from The Mermaid to the parade, he drove a coffee brown Rover 200 P6 Registration number ATV 1 or ATV 2 on the opposite side of the road, at the top of the hill was a Ferrari dealership...

Didn't know there were 2 baths, just a lad of 62, hated the place with a passion and always glad to get on the bus home, pleased to hear you didn't drown! Never used my free pass!

I also used to go to Sparkhill Baths from Yorke House School, I am scared of water so not my favourite place but I got my free pass by swimming a length but I had to do it it backwards as I could touch the bottom if I didn't quite make it! I remember the trip back on a WMPTE bus which we caught...

I too got my sports gear from there for Camp Hill in 1969 and for some years after. I believe Eric willmont's son Richard took the shop over, he worked at the shop in school holidays and believe he was a pupil at Saltley Grammar. Sadly I am sure I remember reading in the Evening Mail that...