Dear participants to this post. Please excuse me if i don't know what i'm doing, been made a member of B'ham History Forum only this afternoon and felt I must add something to this post. Some of it will be quite random from comments made by you since the post started. I was born 1945 and attended Eliot St 1950-1952 (infants) and 1952-1956 (juniors) before going to Hastings Rd Secondary in Perry Common, but still living in Nechells. I lived in Nechells Park Road in one of the 12 or so houses that backed onto the Old Ladies Park (houses still there apparently). Next door was Tony Kirby, same class at school and next to him was Martin & Christine James (twins) also in our class at school. In 1968 Christine James married Brian Corfield, is this the same bloke previously mentioned? Also mentioned previously was Alan Pittaway, he was in our class also. Alan did emigrate to Australia along with Colin Ridgard (lived Mount St on corner of Park Place) Kenny Durose (lived in Nechells Park Road, half way between Eliot St and the chip shop on corner of Crompton Road (still a chip shop)) and Michael Whale (lived in Long Acre, half way between Plume St and the Hercules factory). I know that Alan and Michael soon came back. Sometime in the 60's I was at Nechells Green, waiting for a bus when a lorry pulled up, the driver leaned over and said "hop in". It was Alan Pittaway. My teachers in junior school were 1st year - Miss Gooding, 2nd year - Miss Robins, 3rd year - Mr Terry and 4th year - Miss Gooding again. Other teachers in the school were Mr Rees and Miss Barker. I have a couple of photos, one a full class photo of first year infants (1950) and about 8 of us in final year junior school which Miss Gooding took. I will try to put these on if anyone is interested and I can work out how to do it.
