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Hi everyone, and Happy New Year! Well, for those of you who may be interested in who St. Guthlac was, I have some great news :) . . . Last night (Jan. 4th) on BBC1, there was the first episode of Series 9 of Alice Roberts's "Digging for Britain". For those of you who may not know her, she was...

Hello Janice and Robert! Well, Christmas is almost upon us, so I'd like to take this opportunity of wishing you both a very happy one! As you will have (not) seen, there doesn't seem to have been any further movement on Guthlac House since our various posts in the summer. If anyone else is...

Hi Robert! I've only ever been to India on business trips - usually with clients. My wife (Dani) and I would love to go on holiday there at some point (she has never been), and the Taj Mahal (which is in an area of India to which I've never been) is on both of our bucket lists, although...

Hi Robert! Thanks for the background info. You and your parents were indeed fortunate to have missed the Mau Mau uprising. I did a Masters in Archaeological Computing (don't ask!) at Southampton Uni and became a full-time archaeologist for a while before I realised that there were few jobs and...

Hi all! Given that the Colenutts did not marry until 1938, their two daughters would have been at most in their late teens and not their early twenties as I had previously postulated. Extremely unlikely, therefore, that the young girl at the front of the photo could have been one of theirs. My...

Great, Janice, many thanks! All good background, even if a little off-thread :-)

That would be great, Janice, if you could! Thanks!

Hi Robert, or should that be G'day? Hi also to Janice - I assume that you are pjmburns??? If so, many thanks for the electoral roll snippet of the Colenutt family. Are you able to see from Ancestry if Mrs. C's maiden name was Fletcher? Also, were you at the school, too? I have rooted out my...

Hi Robert! Thanks for your reply and for posting the photo. Can you say in which year it was taken? I think you must be a little older than I if you were at the school in the late 40's; I was born in '49, and I think that I started in January '53. I do have my school reports, so I can look that...

Hi! The full address was: 258 Coleshill Road Castle Bromwich B'ham 34 It is now a large private house.

Hi! Does anyone know what happened to Guthlac House school? I was there in the early- to mid-fifties, when it was run by a Mrs. Colenut, known to her pupils by what I assume must have been her maiden name, Miss Fletcher. Other teachers at the time were Mrs. Watson and Miss Ryan. It was a mixed...

My friend Brian Harris was there in the early- to mid-fifties. He and I lived next door to each other in Erdington Hall Road We've lost contact many years ago when he moved to Chester Road and I to Northern Ireland. Does anyone remember him?