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Many thanks for your prompt reply.The mystery regarding my G.Grandparents deepens but the photo is much appreciated.

I appreciate this is an old post but I've only just seen it! I'm especially interested in the first photo of the traveller's encampment. I think it's where my Great grandmother Martha Cooper lived, at the back of her mother-in-law's house, according to a census.Her husband David is referred to...

Great photo,thanks for sharing it.

I love to read about other people's childhood experiences in Brum, thank you. I loved going round the Glebe with my Mum to the faggots and peas shop,she always put a tea cloth on top of the basin and we hurried back before the food got cold.

Thank you very much for this,most interesting.I haven't heard that expression about Saltley Gasworks.The canal as I remember it was very murky!

I remember those green Bundie clocks ,also the shops on the Alum Rock Road, Mum used to go to a butchers there long after we'd left Parkfield Road, also a wallpaper shop and Woolworths, especially near Christmas. We bought our new fireplace from Oldacres.I went on the bus with Mum every Saturday...

They were definitely a lot safer.I think Mum's main concern was me crossing the Alum Rock Road which I didn't need to do as the baker's was just around the corner.

Hi, there,sorry I don't know your Christian name. Thanks so much for replying. I'm intrigued by the fact that you collected frog spawn for the pet shop on the Glebe as we lived on the Glebe,caught the 14 from Kitt's Green Road. I was born in Parkfield Road, Alum Rock, in my Gran's house but we...

This is brilliant, thank you very much .for taking the trouble to reply Hodge Hill Common would certainly make sense. Thanks for the fantastic poem and the other clipping from the Post. I can't imagine my Mum paddling in smelly, sludgy water but perhaps it was clearer in her day! It's great to...

Oh my goodness,yeah! I grew up with great faith in the Birmingham buzzes,though,and felt safe :most of the time!

This is extremely helpful,thank you.I think it was probably the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal.Glad it's still there.Thanks for the Google link.

Many thanks for this.I remember the gas works in all their glory! And yes,most stretches of water were "the cut! Happy days,when kids were excited by bus rides!

Hi everyone, I was admiring some photos on Facebook of Birmingham's canals now they've been renovated and have swish pubs and hotels alongside them. This made me think of travelling to town in the 50's and 60's and looking down from the top of the No.14 to what Dad called "the cut". A murky...

It certainly does,thank you again.

Thank you. Sheila

Many thanks,much appreciated. Sheila

Brilliant,thank you so much. Sheila