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Hi there. It has been a long, long time ago but will try to think of some things... I remember two teachers very well, Mrs Sommerton and Mrs Edwards who ran the nursery class. I have one of my first writing books somewhere with a picture I've drawn entitled 'Mrs Edwards and the fairies!!!!' I...

We used to put our milk bottles by the gas fire to warm them up. We also used to have chocolate covered biscuits which we held by the fire to melt the chocolate and then lick it off!! Does anyone think we'd be allowed to do that now with a Health and Safety being so rife nowadays???!!!!!!! It...

On my first day, after I had been dropped off and left in the classroom, I went back to the cloakroom and put my hat and coat on and sat on the bench in the hallway. The headmistress came past and asked why I was there and I replied that I was waiting for my daddy to come back to take me home!

Was anyone at HKPS late 50s to early 60s? I was there then until the Easter before it closed down and I went to Astwell Prep School for a short time.

I was born in Davey Road, moved to Acfold Road. Then to Camplin Crescent. From there had a flat on Friary Road before moving to Tamworth, to High Wycombe to Princes Risborough and now to Wales.

There were a family of Bramwells living down the road from where I lived in Acfold Road, Handsworth Wood in the 60's. The children's names were Kevin, Sharon and there was a younger brother called Lyndon. They moved up to The Spinney which again was in Handsworth Wood.

Astwell Preparatory School on ?Handsworth Road. The road crossed the Villa Road. Ran by a Miss Maxwell. I remember being taken away from the school when I was 8/9 as I had the cane across the hand in front of the senior class for saying something I hadn't actually said plus being sent down to...

Astwell Preparatory School on Handsworth Road. The road crossed the Villa Road. Ran by a Miss Maxwell? Edit. Link to Astwell Prep School thread is here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/astwell-primary-school.28696/#post-421312

I was brought up in 48 Davey Road from 1956 to about 1964. I remember the Off Licence that was on the corner of Davey Road and the Broadway run by a lady called Bessie. The terraced houses did not have built on garages, naturally, but there were garages built for the houses up that end of the...

48, Davey Road, Perry Barr, followed by 19 Acfold Road, Handsworth Wood.

I remember the hermit's cave very well. You could get to it via the driveway that ran from The Croftway behind the houses of Parkside Road. The woods were on your RHS as you went down the driveway. You would go diagonally right until you joined the path which ran above but alongside the river...

Hello, my maiden name was 'Blocksidge'. My father was a Thorneywork but adopted by his mother's sister who was married to Harry Blocksidge. Dad was born in Bacchus Road, Winson Green as so was his cousin, Stan Kent. Stan's mother was another sister of dad's mother. Dad's aunt and uncle emigrated...

Ah- Josietrue must have gone to a competitor then! Thank you for clarifying the point.

Please post it if you ever find it. The shop was next to a dead end road called by locals as 'The Alley' where there were I think, back to back houses. I used to get sent by the older children to steal sweets for them...... as a very naïve 3 year old, I didn't see the harm at the time. I...

I think it was possibly my mom and dad's shop. It used to be hardware on one side and a sweet shop/ newsagent on the other. I was very young at the time but do remember it. There was an albino chap who used to walk past and look in. I am sure he was lovely but he scared a 3 year old! The name of...

I worked in the cafe on a Sunday in the early 70s under a woman called 'Mrs Spittle.' I sure outside work she'd have been a lovely woman but during the working day she was dreadful!!!! Does anyone remember her?