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master brummie
I was in that annexe too, might've been my second year. (Mr Hall was our teacher, used to flog us 'till his cane broke).
The birmingham council and education department used to give the poor familys plastic coins for bus fares
of all nominations in different colours to parents to give there kids and get them to school
from i penny upwards the penny was red and green was i think was threepenny and six penny was a blue ; i think ;
any of you guys had them ; we did and i used to travel down to hockley brook on the the number eight bus to get to
ickneild street where old man kitchener would wait on the gate for the late comers ;any body go there
my two cousins went there from ford street at the back of the school . Barry and bryan phelps anybody recal them ;
have a nice day best wishes astonian
I Remember having green bus tokens to get me to school and back in the mid 60's. I believe they were issued to poorer families. I remember I used to palm mine so no one could see it was a token as I was worried I would be judged by others.I did have some Birmingham bus tokens in 1967, but cannot remember when they were phased out.
Poverty is a family’s best kept secret. People in poverty, were and still are made to feel like failures. Families would do their upmost best to keep their poverty a secret. There was a similar stigma attached to kids on free school meals too.I Remember having green bus tokens to get me to school and back in the mid 60's. I believe they were issued to poorer families. I remember I used to palm mine so no one could see it was a token as I was worried I would be judged by others.
Would not worry me in the slightest now.
i agree morton. it was like the daily mail boots. they were like wearing a flag saying LOOK we are poor.Poverty is a family’s best kept secret. People in poverty, were and still are made to feel like failures. Families would do their upmost best to keep their poverty a secret. There was a similar stigma attached to kids on free school meals too.
We moved from Ladywood to Kings Norton in 1956, used tokens for travelling back to St Thomas,s school for about a month until I got fixed up at Brandwood End school. I don,t think you had to be poor to get them every child who used a bus for school qualified for the tokens.I used to use them from the middle 60s to 1969 from Aston to Kingstanding to go to school and back.
I guess we were poor but it never bothered me much as we just used to get on with life as we knew it and it proved a great grounding being brought up in Aston for the rest of my life.
Would that also apply in the early 1960s?According to this article the baths in Institute Road were only open for swimming in the summer.
Never knew where those boots came from!i agree morton. it was like the daily mail boots. they were like wearing a flag saying LOOK we are poor.
My junior school was Colmore Road Kings heath, that is were a travelled to on the busWe used them when travelling from school which was in Vicarage Road, Kings Heath to our swimming lessons at Moseley Road Baths. They were given out to pupils by our games teacher. We walked from school to Kings Heath and used the tokens on the number 50 bus from there. It always puzzled me why we didn't use Kings Heath swimming baths.
How strange ! I went to Wheelers Lane School, (mid-50s), and we used KH baths.We used them when travelling from school which was in Vicarage Road, Kings Heath to our swimming lessons at Moseley Road Baths. They were given out to pupils by our games teacher. We walked from school to Kings Heath and used the tokens on the number 50 bus from there. It always puzzled me why we didn't use Kings Heath swimming baths.
I suppose baths were allocated to schools jointly by Education and Baths departments of the Corporation. There are more classes than baths, and once one had been allocated (to KH for instance), other schools has to go elsewhere. When I was at George Dixon school in City Road, we used Harborne baths but were taken by coach - I suppose it would have taken too long on the Outer Circle 11 bus which also ran between the two sites.We used them when travelling from school which was in Vicarage Road, Kings Heath to our swimming lessons at Moseley Road Baths. They were given out to pupils by our games teacher. We walked from school to Kings Heath and used the tokens on the number 50 bus from there. It always puzzled me why we didn't use Kings Heath swimming baths.
Same, we walked from Wheelers Lane SMB to Kings Heath baths in the mid 50'sHow strange ! I went to Wheelers Lane School, (mid-50s), and we used KH baths.