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When the Orphanage land was sold in 1964 the trustees used the money to fund a home in Olton, Solihull. My father went with a former schoolfriend to a commemorative lunch there some 15 years ago. I think it was in honour of Founders Day. Betty Foster definitely had connections with that place...

I corresponded with Betty Foster some 10 years ago and she was quite elderly then, so don't get your hopes up.

Happy days! I remember so many of the names in that photo, although they were a couple of years older than me.

I too joined in 1964, Midland Red. I think I was in class 1A under Mr (Joe) White. I vaguely remember the name Parkinson as sharing the General Certificate Prize with me and others in 1969. Other form masters I recall having were Mr Collins, Mr Toogood, (Gunga) Ingham, (Taffy) Thomas and Brian...

I can't see myself and I don't recognise a soul on the above photo, but I was definitely awarded the english prize on that night.

This is the first time I've seen this 1937 OS map, which shows my grandparents' house 'Newstead' between 'Lyndhurst' and 'St Agnes Convent'. The house was built in the 1920s for Sir Frederick Smith, who built up a brewery business (Frederick Smith's Maltings) in Lichfield Road Aston, and was a...

Paul Higgins is right; there were around a dozen prefabs between the main entrance to Pype Hayes Park and around into Eachelhurst Road. I recall only two in Eachelhurst Road, but there may have been more at an earlier date. There is a photograph of the Chester Road prefabs in Marian Baxter &...

I was at King Edwards Aston from 1964 to 1971. Swimming lessons were almost always at Victoria Road Baths, which was demolished after I left. The whole of Park Lane and everywhere nearby was demolished in 1970-71 to make way for the Aston Expressway and, in particular, the Victoria Road...

That map is very interesting, as I remember the level crossing in Kingsbury Road.

I've never seen the above picture before, which dates from after the day school extension was built. I guess that it was taken from Grange Road, but I can't make out what the signpost says.

That foundation above looks like the grating covered conduit I referred to on an earlier page,where you could see Birmingham's effluvia cascading into the depths. Since writing that post I've walked down Kingsbury Road to see if the grating is still there, but it has been replaced by a large...

I remember seeing the sewage train at Water Orton Lane, Minworth as late as 1964, although I have a feeling that the engine had been replaced by diesel at that time. At the very extent of my memory, when Kingsbury Road was a single carriageway, I recall that the railway line crossed the road...

Those are clearer Gruchy, but I still don't recognise a soul. I'll try to scan and post the 1938 photo over the next few days. I can provide a handful of names of faces with that.

That's a very welcome photo Gruchy, but it would be even better if we could have it at higher resolution. You may be able to reduce the file size by converting from colour (which is unnecessary) to greyscale. Also, JPG files can be compressed from 100% accuracy to say 80% without noticeable loss...

That's a wonderful old photo. It pre-dates the building of the dining room extension and classrooms.

Mothers as a club name opened on Friday 9th August 1968. The opening performance was by Duke Sonny.

I'd like to share a story while I'm still around to tell it, but there is a language warning for those of a sensitive disposition. Firstly, it was a rite of passage at school on your 16th birthday to overstate your age and sign up for a Mothers membership card. Some of the guys even managed it...

Bernview, thanks for posting up your photo, which looks down along the course of Orphanage Road. It took me a while to realise what that object in the immediate foreground is: it is of course the top of the safety railings around the top of the tower. In 1964 I was in Yenton class 4.1, and I...

You would think that 'Normanhurst' would be a unique name for a house, but there was another 'Normanhurst' just down the road on the corner of Boldmere Road and Station Road.

I remember that the site of what is now Highclare next to the Abbey church used to house a catholic school known as 'the Abbey'.