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. . it's been a few years but I seem to remember that the "Zambesi" and the " Stage Door" , may have been the same place , possibly after a name change ? It had seating on the ground floor and usptairs . The upper level got so busy on weekend nights that they would kick everyone out around 9 pm...

Judy , I have a vague memory of there being two chemists in Alum Rock , but the one I definitely remember was next to Woolworths . I also remember the grain and seed shop well . My own dad started work , aged about 15 , as errand boy at the Co-op grocers by the Brook Hill pub . After...

There was a dance hall I think was called, "The Casino" , opposite The Old Square, but that was before my dance hall days . I never went there , but I have a vague memory of a club in the early 60's, opposite , "Bingley Hall", called ,"Kings and Queens" . I also remember the...

Phil , I particularly remember the one in Highfield Road as I lived in Harts Rd from the 40's to the early 60's , so I passed it regularly . A tanner for a bag of chips wrapped in newspaper and saturated with salt and vinegar and a penny for a bag of scratchings ...

Dancing Queen . . I remember as a child going to a fair on the empty site near the Saltley Methodist Church . I don't remember the fish and chip shop you mention but I do remember one on the left in Highfield Rd , just around the corner from the Alum Rock Rd . I think there may have been a...

. . . thanks lyn After much moving around the world over the years my school photo went missing somewhere along the line . However I still have the badge off my last blazer .

. . Does anyone have a copy of an official Central Grammar School photo from anytime between 1953 and 1959 ? . . Or remember the school trip to Paris , over the Easter long weekend of either 1958 or 1959 ? We were under the supervision of a French teacher , "Cag" Carter , and the music...

I grew up in the 40's and 50's in Alum Rock . As teenagers we would think nothing of walking home all the way from the city late at night, after a going to the "pictures" or hanging out in a coffee bar . Or even from my girlfriends house in Golden Hillock Rd , Sparkbrook . . . . How times have...

Wow . . so many memories . If that actual photo had been taken on a Saturday morning not a Tuesday, I would probably have been inside .

Wow . . so many memories . If that actual photo had been taken on a Saturday morning not a Tuesday, I would probably have been inside .

I remember that bus trip well . . I hated playing rugby ! One year I returned to school after the summer holidays with an acute case of Athletes foot and a doctors note excusing me from all sports , "until further notice" . I treasured that note like it was the Turin Shroud , carefully...

I was at Central from 53 to 59 and remember the smell from the paint factory too , before the school re located to Gressel Lane . . Also remember hanging over the bridge each morning before school where the main railway line passed under Bordesley Green Road , with a small group of other kids...

I remember Frank Norman Dixon, aka "Daddy" Dixon , aka Effendi , as teaching French during my years at Central ( approx 53 -59 ) He wrote a comic piece for the school magazine every year under the nom de plume , "Effendi" and was a generally well liked guy with a keen , dry , sense of humour...