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My Mom was born in Nottingham! She often mentioned playing in Sherwood Forest as a child and hiding in Robib's Oak.

Chris, Have no fear. I do not use profanities unless I stub my toe during the night or hit my thumb with a hammer and then its normally a 4 letter word beginning with S!

Hi Rosie, My Dad used to set up for those matches and said they used to rehearse the fights.

Gave up Facebook when I moved to the States mate. I don't do "social media" but couldn't resist this one because its Brum based and as I get older and am thousands of miles away I think of Brum and my youth more often. I often think how strange it is that my first home was an old Victorian slum...

Hi Michael Can't say those names ring a bell but it was a long time ago. I'll be 66 June 17th. Yup Birmingham is a little bit of a distance from Tennessee!

That was Plug alright. I can't say I ever liked Hunters to be honest. I guess it was a place you loved or loathed. After Hunters I attended Bierton Road Secondary for a year then when we moved I was at Moseley Mixed. My replies/postings may be late in the day as I live in Tennessee and we are...

No female art teacher in my time that I recall. Stephen Baker rings a bell. I remember well the day before we went home for holidays. Having a shower, handing our school clothes in and getting our own back. The days before that singing the song 3 more days to go 3 more days of sorrow 3 more...

Wish I could type!

By the way I was known as Billy Beale though I was often called " Bat Mobile"!

Was Mr. Powell the caretaker with the missing fingers? I remember the fil s in the gym and the girls coming over from Cropwood for the weekly dance. This gave me the chance to see my twin sister. Miss Buckley let me go over to Cropwood on a Sunday to see Catherine. Can you remember the name of...

My sister Catherine and I were also at Skills when Mr. Cameron was there. I contracted TB while I was at the school and was quite ill. My sister and I were smuggled at one night and driven home never to return. About a year later we ended up at Cropwood and Hunter Hill

Wondering about memories of the Hall? My godparents Jim and Nessie Graham ran Digbeth Civic Hall during the 60s and my dad worked there and at the Town Hall as a porter. My godparents Uncle Jim and Aunty Nessie along with their daughter Ruth lived in a flat at the top of the building and I have...

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Hi there, The PE teaher i remember was a Welshman named Jones would you believe! I also remember a young teacher with a beard named Evershed who we called "Hedgehog" He drove an old teo seater car and sometimes gave us rides in it. In my dorm I remember a David Peter's and the two McCluskey...

Hi there, I just joined the site today. I was at Hunters till 1967 and have mixed feelings about it. My twin sister Catherine was at Cropwood at the same time I was at Hunters. I think the caretaker was a Mr. Harris who had a disabled daughter. My memories are of being cold and hungry during...