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Yes that's the house. They had been partially rebuilt a number of years ago as an upgrade to the area, although we did add a bathroom to the house in the 60's, where the outside toilet and coal house were. My parents moved out at the start of the 70's to a house on Alum Rock, although they then...

Hi Lyn. It was 42 Reginald Road. Always good to see relevant photographs to pass on to my grandchildren.

Reginald Road back garden late 1950's, looking towards the back of houses on Ralph Road. An enhanced and colourised picture of my parents in their garden in Reginald Road, with the inevitable shed at the top of the garden. There was an alleyway at the top of the garden, but only used by the...

I remember in the 60's buying my first record from that record shop, and my first guitar from the second-hand shop nearby. Come to think of it I bought a bike there too

Yes, Mr Platt. He used to play the piano in the classroom when he gave us tests. I remember him playing pub tunes.

Hi Dave, I remember you well, especially in Biology as I don't think you liked the teacher much at the girl's school. If memory serves, the last time I met you you were the manager of a shop on Alum Rock and I went in to buy something. I was a student at St Peter's College nearby. I was a...

I remember someone hiding in a box so that you could lift up a real arm, or was that Hare? I know people in the audience gasped.

I was in Burke and Hare. I was the doorman and helped with the lighting when not on stage.

I was thinking I'd have to go there next time I'm in Birmingham. They must have some photographic record of the school.

1963 to 1971

Yes. I went to Marsh Hill Boy's School. I'm writing about it for my grandchildren and wanted a picture, but found that it has since been demolished and apparently airbrushed out of history ;)

There are a couple of newspaper reports and group pictures, but I just wanted a general external picture of the school, and can't find anything on the internet at all.

I remember it as a kind of emergency course to learn survival cookery for when we were away from home and fending for ourselves, and it did help when I found myself in that very situation.

Hi. It brings back memories. Do you know, I can't find a single photograph of either the boy's or the girl's school. Trying to write about my life for the grandchildren.

Me too. I remember the brick-built changing rooms, and then on to the rugby pitches. I know there were some other playing fields we were taken by bus to when the racecourse closed, but I can't remember where. I do remember doing cross country around Witton Lakes.

I remember the whole school out on the playground after the stabbing, staff trying to keep us from going to the Secondary school. I also went to cookery at the girl's school when in the sixth form for 'Cookery for those about to go to University'.