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My parents have died now so I can confess this. Did anyone else collect pop bottles out of the bins in Poolway Park, just up the Hollyfaste Road near Blakenhale School to collect the 3d back off the bottle to buy a 'jubbley'. I used to like the Vimto ones. Malcolm

Hi, Sorry for the delay in replying I was at a nieces wedding over the weekend. Like you I remember it being a great local scandal. I didn't really know that they had dances there as I was a bit to young to be interested. I started to get interested in music mainly on a school trip to Belgium...

Thank you very much. I am hunting through the thread to see what else I can pick up. Ideally, I would like to hunt down some records. I never meet my greatgrandmother and I was only 3 when my grandmother passed away. My mother never spoke of it. I only found out doing family history research...

Hi, Can you remember this local dust up at Blakenhale School (July 1960). The articles are from the Birmingham Post. I remember it because next morning we found quite a few coins - including a shilling! - on the pavement. Presummably fallen out of pockets while the fighting went on or from...

Help! I am looking for a bit of help trying to locate any potential details of my great grandmother and my grandmother and her siblings. Forgive the drawn out expanation. On the 1911 census they were living at Erdington. My great grandmother (Julia Reece) was married to a 'right charmer'...

Thank you Reg, I would assume he would have gone to that school too if it is the nearest one. I was born in Birmingham near Garretts Green Technical College, then moved to Stechford, then when I was 35 I moved down to Portsmouth with my job and have been here since. Up until 2020 I visited...

Reg, Sorry I have been calling you Morris! Old age and stupidity I think, apologies. And thank you for the information from your sister. It's really nice to get a picture of life in the terrace. Where was the nearest school because I assume my grandfather would have gone to the nearest one...

Thank you very much for letting me know about this Facebook link. I will ask my son to access it for me. And thank you for your description of the houses, it all helps to get a picture of what it was like to live there. Malcolm

Judy, Sorry for the delay in replying I was out all day yesterday. It is truly a remarkable coincidence. In 1911, my grandfather Thomas (5) was living at number 16 with his parents Charles & Emily and his sister Helena (4). I see that your aunt and uncle Thomas and Rose were virtually the same...

Morris, Thank you so much for taking the time to share these memories with me. It is great to get a feel for what the house was like and how the families lived. My grandfather Thomas Ford lived there with his parents Charles and Emily and his two sisters Helena & Alice. I know there were there...

Hello Judy, I have only found this thread today and by a million to one chance. I have noticed searching through it that your ancestors lived in number 17 Gothic Terrace, my grandfather Thomas Ford was born in number 16 Gothic Terrace in 1905 and was living next to your ancestors in 1911. Malcolm

Thank you anyway Morris. So amazing for me to think you were born and lived in the same house as my grandfather. If you get a bit of spare time and you don't mind, could you described what it was like, numbers of rooms, size that kind of thing. I would be very grateful. But please don't worry if...

Hi, I have only just discovered this brilliant thread about Clifton Road. My link is via 16 Gothic Terrace where my grandfather was born in 1905. I have found a map of the location of Gothic Terrace, a few photos of Clifton Road and a potential photo of Gothic Terrace posted some time ago. The...

Morris, I am so sorry I am so late to this thread. By a million to one coincidence my grandfather Thomas Ford was born at 16 Gothic Terrace in 1905. I don't know if you ever got a photo of it, I would love to see a copy if you did. His family were still there in 1911 but by 1921 they had moved...

I have just remembered I think there was a Lyndon Green School too! So with Stanville, St Thomas More, Elm's farm, Mapledean and Blakenhale that would have made 6. Fills up the lanes in the race track!

Mikey, we used to live facing the College. How ironic being injured by a vehicle designed (along with milk deliveries) to be the perfect environmental system. I guess they took you to the Police Station at the bottom of Sheldon Heath Road. I once reported my mom to them because she made me eat...

Brilliant, like everything once someone tells you, you remember instantly!

Hi, like you I thought Mr Owen was brilliant. I never stayed dinners so I missed the 'joys' of frog spawn and such. I do remember all the marbles games, from memory there was 'marley' season, though Lord knows why! I remember the dancing too, I think we called it Country Dancing. Apart from...

Mary, How strange that you knew the Hatters and the McMahons, I was good friends with both Peter McMahon and Gary Hatter. We used to live in the end house at the College end of Outmore Road. My dad was still there until 2020 when he caught Covid and passed away. Tony Peverell could very well...

Barry, Sorry I took so long to reply! I can remember going to play at football (in the 4th Year) at King George V Playing fields just past the Radleys along Church Road. We used to have the annual Sportsday there with Mapledean, Elms Farm, Stanville and another school I can't remember. I agree...