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Hi Casey, The hairdressers have changed hands a couple of times since then, they're quite good now. Kitsland shops are now very bleak. Where the chippy was is now houses and flats but I wouldn't like to live down there. Longmeadow has also been knocked down and has houses on the site of the...

Hi Julie, This is a bit late as I'm a new member to this site. I left Longmeadow in 1962 and remember York Wood as our Cookery rooms ran along side the enterance. Just inside the gates to the wood you had sort of Totum Poles & I beleive that some of the heads on these poles came from the...

Hi All, I used to go to Silver blades when it first opened. Do you remember Ricky the Dee? He was the disc jokey at Silver Blades & the Heart Beat club down stairs. I was one of the privaledged few that helped him sort his records out before each session at the weekend. That was the time when...

Hi Casey, I remember the Co-op well infact I still visit Kitsland rd at the hairdressers. I knew Paul also through my mom. His mom & mine grew up together in Nechells, they shared the same yard. Infact, some years ago my dad had a drink with him at the Legion Hrst Lane.

Yeh, you're absolutely right....thinking about it I had a crush on Robert Horton and Clint Eastwood....what a tart!!

Re: Hillstone school Hi Jen, I also walked to Hillstone & Longmeadow from Hall Hays rd. Your maiden name wouldn't happen to be Rowbottom would it & did you have a sister called Carol?

I had the hot's for Rowdy Yates in Wagon Train. I can always remember my dad bringing me and my brothers home a block of cadbury's chocolate with the 6 different flavours in one block of choc just to watch Wagon Train...and then bed ready for school the next morning. Mind you, Bonanza some years...

Hi all, I'm new to this site and afraid it seems a lot older than all of you. I started Hillstone Infant when it was first built in 1952/53 The headteacher was Miss Stitt and I believe the Junior headteacher was Miss Clay. I can only remember one teacher in the juniors which was Mr Yauxhall and...

I went to Longmeadow Girls School during 1958/1962 and remember Miss Featherstone and some of the other teachers mentioned very well. I also walked from Hall Hays Rd usually with my friend called Pat. Prior to that I went to Hillstone from the very first day it opened, I think it was about...