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I was a student in that building 1976-1977 where the Foundation Course in Art and Design was located, great times there and so many brilliant pubs nearby, The Fox and Grapes and the Woodman were the best for

I recall the Physics teacher, mass of ginger Curley hair told us he had personally ground the mirror for the observatory with two slabs of glass and carborundum paste rubbing together in a circular motion to create one convex and one concave mirror, how true that was is up for some conjecture

What a rogues gallery! I was at the school from Jan 70 to 1976, Telford house. some of those names I have no memory of at all.

I have to admit I was the designer who with a contractor, converted the Bournbrook to the Old Varsity Tavern, back in the '80's, good times, sadly I didn't own it or I would be living it up on the French Riviera now.

I worked at the Court Oak Harborne as an 18 year old bar man in 1975/76, before it was knocked about into a 1 room Goliath. It had a public bar, gents only bar, an outdoor where you could buy jugs of beer to take home, a smoking room, cocktail bar, lounge bar and a function suite, it hosted many...

Best of luck with that one, I imagine Coors might have them in Burton as they took the brewing arm of Bass, I doubt the M& B Offices in Brum would know nothing of them as they are just a brand now.

I worked at the Court Oak as an 18 year old bar man in 1975/76, before it was knocked about into a 1 room Goliath. It had a public bar, gents only bar, an outdoor where you could buy jugs of beer to take home, a smoking room, cocktail bar, lounge bar and a function suite, it hosted many huge...

I worked for M&B in the early 80’s in the design office of the Chief Architect, John Bourne, a gentleman of the old school. In my time there I was lucky to have access to the M&B photographic archive of the huge building programme of the 1920’s with some of the most iconic pubs featuring...

Thinking of the school and it facilities, for the time we had a good well equipped school, learning to drive in the minis was a treat, working with a forge, anvil, machines that could remove fingers, an observatory which could monitor the stars and look into the windows of the flats in posh...

I was at LBGTS from December 69 to June 76, so a little more recent that most of the posts above, we had so many memorable teachers, some good times and some forgettable experiences mostly to do with adhoc corporal punishment which never did me any harm but stung a bit at the time, main...

When I was there between 69 and 76 Mr Harrington, TD master was known as Fruitbowl