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As a child I always thought Midland Red buses were the most exciting. I lived in Saltley and could get onto a Midland Red bus to Coleshill where we used to go to swim in the river. But when we moved to Willenhall in the Blackcountry, I travelled every morning from Walsall to catch the No8...

As a child I would walk right through New Street Station then down the steps and across the road to The Newstheatre to watch the cartoons. I wonder what happened to it. Sometimes in those days if you went to the pictures you might see a cartoon between the two films if you were very lucky. But...

I lived in Erdington through the war. I was the youngest child and had two sisters. We didn’t really understand what was happening but Fort Dunlop, Aston Chain and hook, and Rollisons Wire factories were close by so it seems we were bombed quite regularly. After tea all three of us were put to...

My mothers family lived in the Black Country. I used to visit a great uncle who lived at Nethertonas quite a young child I was allied to get th Alum Rock tram, walk to Snow Hill and take the train to my uncles. I am not sure that I should use the term Blackies but that’s what we called the train...

As a child I went to Bordesley Green Secondary Technical School. I failed to get into Central Grammar School but after time in tha navy I trained as a teacher and spent my first year teaching at Cherrywood Road School. I took a class of thirteen year old kids who were great but had been badly...