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Now age 76, I remembered this Power Station as a young boy, growing up in Aston. I did a Bing AI search, which initially could not find anything. A few days later, it sent me this interesting information: City of Birmingham Electricity Supply Department Alma Street The Alma Street power...

In 1961 as a pupil at Great Barr Comprehensive School on Aldridge Road we used to Cross Country Run in grounds of Great Barr Hall. During a run when I was about age 13, I badly cut my foot on a broken bottle during it. I was taken to Great Barr Hall, the nearest building for help, and was...

The History of Upper Witton, its Mills and Reservoirs A watermill stood off Gypsy Lane in the 1800’s, at the lower end of Upper Witton Pools now known as Witton Lakes. A reservoir was due to be situated at Witton Lower Pools along with the Mill and Mill House, belonging to Wyrley Birch the...

Thanks, well spotted! I have corrected it now.

‘Thanks to diphtheria, a pushy Mum and an MP, we got a house ... and I got a future’ I was born in a back-to-back in the slums of Aston in 1946 – one of the ‘boom babies’ conceived when the men folk who survived the war came home. We’re now called the baby boomer generation’ – and there’s a lot...

I wrote this article some time ago but realised I should post it.

I went to Great Barr Comp in 1958, having passed the 11+ as I lived outside the area. I knew Steve Winwood well, who was in the year below me. He lived locally in Atlantic Road, and it was him that has given me a life long appreciation of the Blues music. I did not know Muff as he was much...

I went to Great Barr Comp in 1958, having passed the 11+ as I lived outside the area. I knew Steve Winwood well, who was in the year below me. He lived locally in Atlantic Road, and it was him that has given me a life long appreciation of the Blues music. I did not know Muff as he was much...

No, only the one from 1959. The two later ones were given to me by my friend Brian Whitehall whose brother Barry is the first one on the left of the second row. It has to be about 1960.