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Have now found the Wilton Street thread and have reposted. To correct my post here, the twins were the Lambert twins not the Wheeler twins- got confused with Wheeler Street!

I lived at 1/107 Wilton Street until late 1963. Back to back houses with outside toilets, no bathrooms, tin bath on the outside wall, one shared bath a week in the small scullery (water shared with my younger sisters). Weekly washing done by mum in a shared facility. Two bedrooms (2 younger...

Oops -messed up again. Just posted on the Guildford Street thread a post about my house in Wilton Street! I’ll get it right eventually! I now live not far from Guildford and until i came across this site had forgotten about Guildford Street. A million miles from my early life in Brum!

I used to live at 1/107 Wilton road Lozells (back to back houses). 3 sisters and me in a two bedroom house). Anyone remember this shop just up the road from 107 or the Wheeler twins who lived in the front of 105?

Can you remember a boy called Keith Slim who was riding his bike and was killed in a road accident?

Sorry Banjo - just finding my way around this site. Forgot there were different threads!

Hi Banjo i was there from 1958 to 1962, so our paths would probably have crossed. i was a member of the Chess team. Can you remember any of the names on the attached photo? A abiding memory is of Mr Eyton throwing the wooded blackboard cleaner from the back of the classroom across our heads!

Michael Trigger? Can‘t remember the other kids. Teachers Mr Phillips and Mr Eyton.

Hi Banjo. I’ve only just come across this forum and it’s bought back many memories of my time at Gower Street Secondary Modern school 1958- 1962. Mr Phillips, Mr Eyton who chucked blackboard cleaners across our heads, Mr Ball the headmaster. I was a prefect and was in the chess team. Attached...