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So very sorry to hear this, Warren. I never met your father in person but we bumped in to each other a few times on various threads, and quickly I could see why he was highly regarded. I did not hear of the Forum's past problems and his wonderful rescue for some time, and since then I have...

Happy Birthday Eric: our paths might not have crossed all that often, but your input in to so many aspects of things posted here has helped with recalling and learning more about not only 'My' Birmingham but also about other areas of this great City, their different characters, histories...

So, sling 'em all up there except one in order to avoid having to cart the lot back and forth every day, and just keep one on the van to get the others down when needed! The ingenuity of British Craftsmen at its best, with the added bonus of creating just enough time to drop in for a quick...

Ummmm ... but how would you get them down? Maybe bring a ladder? Oh, wait ....

A schoolfriend from St. Peter's Juniors (Harborne), Robert Homer, went on to Greenmore I seem to think .... That would have been in 1959, perhaps someone was there with him too? And I recall that it was *affectionately* known as Greenmore Cowsheds. Amazing the things that stick in your mind...

Reading through some of these gave me a couple of flashback memories from when I was somewhere around 6-7. I haven't thought about Henrys for a loooooong time even though it was a shop (before we had 'stores') that Mum and I would pop in to most times we Went Shopping In Town, which in the...

... and seeing this, the years instantly disappeared! It is now 1967, I'm working sometimes in Bush House and sometimes in Baskerville House depending upon which hat I am wearing that day. This particular day I needed to be in Bush House for a couple of hours, and when then strolling down to...

Yes undoubtedly referencing Birmingham in the broad context of the HS2 sequence behind the opening titles. But the tall building isn't round, it is octagonal ... so, The Octagon not The Rotunda. Good spot Tinpot.

Just a nice little memory prompted by this thread ... Up to the age of 11 I was at St. Peter's School, Harborne, before going on to Lordswood in 1959 after the 11+. Some time in what I believe was its last year - Sept '58 to July '59 - my class was taken to the Teachers Training College in...

Are there any past Harborne-ites reading? Maybe you went to Dr. McCook? In the '50s when I was just single-figures old our Dr. was the very pleasant Dora K. McCook with a soft Scottish burr in her voice. Her surgery was on High Street around a dozen properties down from the Post Office, in the...

OMG - imagine having first dibs on a Grand Piano!! I'd have changed career just for that! Still waiting ... maybe one day, lol.

Thanks for dating the Gym mural .. so, still well after my time. Interesting to note that there was an early 2000s BBC progrmme about the school ... must take a shot at uncovering it!

Way too many to list, and half probably forgotten across the decades anyway lol, but richardinwales's mention of Elkie Brooks instantly reminded me of being in Brighton on business overnight in '77/8, and after tea at the hotel I went off for a wander around for a while. The hotel was on the...

Thank you RobT for making the correction. I had copy/pasted the link, though clearly overshooting the end and incorporating a word of from the adjoining text unnoticed which broke the link. Not so much copy/paste as copy/haste *blush*

In case you haven't come across it, there's another C&H thread at https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/chamberlin-chamberlain-hookham.22020/which has further photos and information that perhaps may interest you? ... TQ

I have just stumbled in to one of the earlier pages in this thread, which was an offered link in a search for something else so I was quite surprised when the target turned out to be about pies! And then I actually read a little more just out of curiosity, came across the fact of it being about...

Total time-warp photos, and thanks for adding them. It would be great to have other decent interior shots of the Old LTS too if any are around, but I have noticed v few. If these were all taken around the same time, as they look to be, then I can only add that they are from after 1965 because...

He could? Oh, okay, I wasn't aware of that. All the same I do remember a number of other members of staff whose raised voices were unmissable at times from just walking the nearby corridors. Messrs George (metalwork) McCarthy (Biology) and Long (German) just came to mind with their distinctive...

I'm not sure where he set out from, but yes it could well have been there as once or twice he would go whizzing past one of my bus stops in the Ford Pop that he'd use sometimes, which was on a route that had come from that way. A couple of times that I went that way (I could choose from 3 routes...

Another Hepworths connection ... I went in to their New St branch right by The Odeon one time in probably '65/6 and found Roger Franks in full Mens Outfitter Salesman mode :) We had a few words of course though I didn't go on to buy anything I think, and as we hadn't moved in the same LTS...