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I was there from 1958-1965 but my older brother Tony Townley was in the first intake at "the comp". We lived across the road at 219, Sheldon Heath Road. Sheldon Heath Comprehensive School was one of the two original comprehensive's built in Birmingham (along with Great Barr). Although it was a...

I'm pretty sure that the bakery at the Swan was Hardings, not Harveys. I can remember the smell and the taste of their fresh warm bread on a Sunday morning bought from a little shop in Station Road Stechford just round the corner from Iron Lane. All of the buildings at that end of Church Road...

On the matter of Sheldon, a mate sent me this section from the 1863 Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Handbook, which you may find of interest Under the Heading Marston Green " After passing under Marston Hall bridge we transit some prettily wooded country, having Marston Wood on the right and...

At one time there were 8 houses: Fry, Keller, Nightingale, Slessor, Bray, Grenfell, Lister and Livingstone (4 women and 4 men) but they were condensed to 4 some time in the sixties. Hugh

I believe that the fourth House name was Fry (for Elizabeth Fry). Hugh

Do you remember mad Dougie French? One day I was walking along the ground floor science corridor past Ernie Palmer's biology lab heading towards the Middle School Hall with a pencil in my mouth. Dougie French was approaching from the opposite direction and he stopped me. "When I was a lad I was...

I moved into Sheldon Heath Road in 1948 at the age of 1. I vaguely remember the farmhouse in Garrets Green Lane. As far as I can remember it would have been just before the first of the houses after Meon Grove. I also remember the Chestnut tree which stood near the Junction of Sheldon Heath Road...