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I was born in 1943 and I lived in Brougham St. and used to play as a kid round there till we moved out to Great Barr in the early fifties when my parents bought their first house. By those maisonettes was a brick built box which we used to climb onto to look over the wall at the brook, it ran...

Hi I was the instrument engineer at the Albion bottle company in Rood End Road Oldbury and we shared a drive with the Oldbury branch of Midland Cattle Products. The smell at one end of the factory where No three glass furnace was sited was horrendous and the smell passing over the furnace chute...

Hi I went to the Comp and I was in my second year when it opened. We still had some of the teachers from the old Aldridge Road school, it was a lot more lax than the Aldridge Rd school where the the teachers were all ex military and the school was run almost like a military camp. What I...

Hi Lyn Is it still as green as it was with all the chemical run off from the plating shops? It was normally only a few inches deep in a curved culvert, but I can remember it being very noisy on several occasions and being over half way up the wall, I don't remember it flooding though. Were you...

Hi I remember looking down into the brook. We used to climb onto the garden wall of the maisonettes and look through the wire on the top of the wall down the side of the brook, it always had a funny smell to it. We also used to go round the back of the maisonettes and watch the men working in...

Hi Glenda I did reply earlier but it doesn't seem to be here so I will try again. I would love any photos you have you can email me direct on , I renewed my amateur radio licence and this is the email I use on the air. I am going through a load of photos from my mother's collection, she...

Hi Lyn We found the shop on the other side didn't cater for kids pocket money as readily, All I remember from that was the window had a big Blue Bird toffee advert in the window. I wonder if you knew the Addleton twins their father had a workshop at the top of the yard with several lathes...

Hi Lyn We used to go to the shop on the Brougham St side the old man there used to make his own ice lollies, I now realise they were Vimto flavoured. I also used to go to the ironmongers just down in Farm St for paraffin. It is strange in the few days I have been reading on this forum it has...

Hi No to my knowledge there were no other relatives of mine living in the Birmingham area. We moved from Lozells to Great Barr in 1951 I think it was it was not long before the coronation. All my family on my fathers side were in Yorkshire, though I believe they originated from Cheslyn Hey. My...

Hi My name is Brian Steadman I lived in Brougham St. (56) I went to St. Silas's school from 1947 ish to 1951/52 when my parents moved to a new house in Great Barr. One of the things that stuck in my mind was during that time the roof was replaced on the church. I remember watching the men erect...