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That's not Jenkins Street (Small Heath) Bridge. It's still a single bridge. The bridge in the photo is located on Bordesley Middleway. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.4711901,-1.8761682,3a,75y,317.44h,94.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjczx27yuCX88b4ArqSKbNw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/warwickshire/birmingham_b10_smallheathtavern.html

I live in Ireland as well

At 16 I never wanted to live any place but Small Heath. Now I don't like driving through it.

In 1970 the Byron Road side of the school was the Holy Family Annex which was temporary venue to cope with the number of Irish Catholic children who couldn't be accommodated by the Holy Family School main building. We moved from there to Jenkins Street (off Coventry Road) in Small Heath around...

I grew up in the 60/70s in an Irish family. We lived in Sparkbook, Garrison Lane and Bordesley Green/Small Heath border. Nearly every one of my mates was from an Irish or West Indian family. I only realised decades later, that we never really mixed with kids from English families. Unconscious...

In the 60s & 70s they started to knock down a lot of pubs. In the 80s only the White Lion, the Nest and the Malt Shovel survived the Muntz Street demolition. There used to be loads of pubs and loads of Irish in Small Heath. My favourites pubs were the Gunmakers, the Brighton and the Nest.

Who was your Dad? Do you know what years he attended HF school?

It could be a coincidence.

There was a brickworks in the area now occupied by camberbest building products is now, just off garrison lane.

It may be a coincidence but Tilton Road Headmaster in 1969 was Mr Hinchcliffe. Could be his wife What years was this lady the headteacher at Handsworth Grammar School?

Those tables may have been from Shawbury School. which was demolished in the early 1980s The School had its own laundry and a sewing machine shop where they altered and repaired the boys uniforms.

I know this is a very old post but I remember Peter Griffin (Painting Department) and John Graves. I've attached a staff photo of them both.

I'm not sure. I'd moved out by that time with the occasional visit back. I would say the 90s but it could have been 2000s. It closed down years before it was demolished. No trade.

It was a pub that only really did any trade on match days. I grew up in Small Heath and was only in it once in the 80s. Small Heath was a great place to live in the 70s/80s.

This was in the early 70s.

The middle photo is Greenway. Is this the pub your grandfather ran?

The main Holy Family School didn't have enough places to fill the demand for the number of Irish families in Small Heath. So in late 60s they used part of Waverley Road School (Byron Road). I went there in 1970 and shortly after the HF Annex moved to Jenkins Street. It was a prefab building...

Did Derek and Caroline work at Tescos?