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I also loved school stories, so apart from Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers and St Clare's school stories, I used to read the Chalet School series of stories, sometimes Angela Brazil's stories and a series of stories about Cherry Ames going through her nursing career, I wonder if any other ladies...

Been thinking the last couple of days about books and comics I remember from my childhood and the enjoyment I got from reading them. I always used to have a comis called Bunty and I think School Friend, with different comic strips and usually a type of serial story, about school or a ghost type...

Hi Astonian, by the time I was old enough to go to pubs there wasn't really many bands played at those two pubs, the Kings Head got refurbished around '83/'84 and I tended not to go in the pub itself, but the wine bar at the back called Cheekys. It was all done out in pastel shades and chrome...

Goodness that brought back some memories. Mom loved to listen to Les Ross at breakfast time and so did I, he was so funny and entertaining. Mom used to like to listen to Radio Birmingham during the day and especially liked Ed Doolans show. When I was old enough to be interested in music, I used...

I was now allowed to play out after school and we would play many of the games that we played at school, sometimes the girls would take our Sindy dolls and play with them in the entry "borrowing" the boys Action Men so as Sindy could have a boyfriend or take our larger dolls for a walk in their...

Thank you all for your lovely comments, much appreciated. Right, here goes part 2..... I started school in September 1970, Devonshire Road Infants and Juniors. I was really looking forward to it, thinking I was very "grown up" to be attending school, unfortunately the classroom I should've...

Hi Alan, thank you for your message, hope 2017 ( it seems so strange to type that!) is a good year for you too. Thank you for your memories of St Chad's and Lightwoods Park, the paddling pool had gone by the time I was spending a lot of time up there, but I have vague memories of it as a little...

I've been reading with a great deal of interest about fellow members childhoods and have seen that people would like to read accounts of slightly younger people's childhoods, so here goes.... I was born in 1966 at St Chad's Hospital on the Hagley Road and lived for the first 9 years old my life...

I've put in a request to join your group, but I don't really know much about that part of The Birmid, my granddad worked at the foundry in Middlemore Road, Smethwick, but tbh anything to do with the company is of interest to me, so thank you for accepting my request, I had a notification as I am...

I know this thread is old so apologies for bumping it, but honestly it has made me so happy to see the pictures of The Birmid on Dartmouth Road, my beloved granddad worked there for many years as a sand cast moulder, something that I was led to believe was very specialised. I wonder if anyone...

Hi Lyn and David and thank you for the welcome, I'm really enjoying reading different threads and will be definitely looking at the thread about Lightwoods Park, a favourite place of mine during my teenage years back in the early '80's when I lived in Bearwood, near Warley Woods.

Hi, this is my first post on this really interesting site. Hope people from "just over the border" Smethwick are ok to post here! It was amazing to see the photos above of St Chads, or the "Smethwick Hospital" as us Smethwickians of a certain age call it. I was born there on 12th April 1966 at...