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Hi Mick Bryan (CrikeyMickey)! I recall Mr. Williams, whom I found like able, but Mr. Lanyon’s science ‘lessons’ I found dreary. Reading the same general science book for my four years with only one science experiment a year was not my idea of learning. I usually came last or near last at the...

Not only do I remember the Harold Juggins photography studio on Lozells Road, I still have photos he took of me when I was a young child !

Miss Darlington was a gifted storyteller. Even those children who were often badly behaved would sit enthralled listening to her stories which she related at the end of the day. She never read her fascinating stories from a book, relying on her memory: it added more of a dramatic effect. Later...

I don’t think ‘Mom’ is ‘a Birmingham thing.’ My youngest sister in law, now living in America, calls her mother (my mother in law), ‘Mom,’ when speaking English, but my mother in law, like my sister in law, are of an Ethiopian background and both were born in Ethiopia

We had a family by the name of Thompson living next door to us- Lyttelton Road . One of the family- a son of the owners was ‘John.’ His sister was Beryl and the father was a self employed carpenter. Whilst the John I am thinking of was born in the 1930’s thereabouts, could he/ they be any...

Hi Jim Green Lane baths were in Small Heath. My maternal grandmother had a cafe there at the turn of the 20th century. Aston swimming baths (I recall using them) were on Victoria Road, Aston.

Hi ! I was sorry to see Vic ( ‘Skip’ as group scoutmaster) was not so close to his own family. I knew he retired to Tunbridge Wells, because in replying to me he informed me of that and made a veiled reference to the fact that he’d ‘had enough.’ I also recall him mentioning that he’d been a...

As both your husband and I were born in 1944, it’s possible we were in the same class ! I recall David Smart and David Cartwright- at least, I think I’ve got the first names correct. Certainly I know I’m correct with the surnames. In those days, boys couldn’t step over the demarcation line for...

I worked there for a few weeks as a 'holiday relief' when it was known as an Observation and Assessment Centre. There were some good staff there,but I was not happy about one inciden I witnessed there and something I was told about the head of the home at the time

I attended Bierton Secondary School 1955-1959. Mr. Carmichael,whom I also knew as 'Skip,'was also our scoutmaster.I think 'Skip'was from his time in the RAF during the war.Mr.Williams and Mr.Thomas (I don't think you mentioned him)also took us for rugby,and I was in the team approx.1957/8...

I've only just seen these photos of former Bierton Sec. Mod. I was there from 1955-1959

Hi Lynda I remember a very kind and friendly man called Bernard who worked on a milling machine. Is it possible heis your father?

Thank you for your reply Jean.Incidentally I worked there from August 1959 to March 1963

Hi Thank you for replying.I'd given up posting notes on B'ham History Forum because people did not reply! So thank you again. I could never work out why William was nicknamed 'Tiny' because he didn't seem particularly short.I rememember Clive -he trained in the office above the toolroom. I must...

I'm sorry I don't have any photos of the shop, but I do remember being a little afraid of her as a young child! I also remember she had a number of large jars of boiled sweets.I used to sometimes buy sherbet dips, sweet cigarettes, sweet matches and wagon wheels and liqourice from her.

As I lived in Wills Street, I knew Lozells Street very well. In fact, I was a pupil at Lozells Steet School. I remember a sweet shop, which was owned by an elderly lady, on the corner of Wills Street and Lozells Street. Is that the shop you are referring to?

My father worked at Wright's Rope Works during the 1940's and also,I think, the 1930's. I did have a photograph of him at work there but, sadly, it was lost about fifteen years ago. He was a 'splicer.' Sorry I couldn't supply more information.

I attended Lozells Infant and Junior School.Miss Fry was a very popular head, but her replacement,Miss Miles (Moyles) was not so popular. Overall, though, I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. Miss Darlington (a wonderful storyteller); Mr.Chapman Miss Marsh (later 'Harris') Mr. Hancox and Mr...

Yes, I remember Mr. Ryan - strict but fair. He could also be very funny.

Mine too! I remember dancing with a lovely looking and charming girl, who was one the artistes there.