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I can't remember deary, The only things I can remember about that school, I was 6---(1) Being sent all round the school with my little chalk board showing off the perfect circle I had drawn with chalk ---this being the first morning at the school. I thought it a wonderful place where you got praised for everything you did. (2) An afternoon thunderstorm, so violent, and so dark, all the lights were switched on-even outside in the streets.( minutes before-the sun had been shining) We all had to wait till our parents could arrive earlier than usual, it was like the end of the world to us. (3) a pretty little girl with platts, who always wore scotch plaid kilts--Brenda Roberts--it must have been love, to remember her all these years-----when ? about 1947/8. I do know that it was a hell of a walk home each dinner hour and back again for a 6 yr old.---golightly
 
hi all, seeing as i keep getting emails from you lot due to my putting a question on the wrong site, i have one for you, on the hawthorn road, keeping to the left hand side as you aproach colledge road and the colledge pub, there used to be a ww2 spitfire, on the left some 200 yards from the pub, anyone remember that,? why was it in that specific spot,? who put it there and why? it would have been around 1950, ish, tom.
 
hi golightly...my two youngest went to the school and i worked there for a few years...i would pop down and take some pics of the the back and front of the school but with things being as they are now regarding childrens safety i think its best if i dont...but i will go through my photos i have taken when the kids where there and post a couple for you....

lyn
 
lyn can you confirm the right school, have a set of pics taken during a school holiday, as lyn said have to be careful Dave
 
Re: kingstanding spitfire

tommy That was the H Q for the Air Training Corps Dulwich Road Infants school also had an annex in Brackenbury road Congregational Church during the war I can remember going into the cellars underneath when an air raid siren went off sometime in 1944 Moss in Aus
 
golightly /G G Jean
There is a picture of Cranbourne Rd.school on "Digital Handsworth"site.Remember the headmistress of the infants in 1940s was Miss Poole and juniors Miss Pugh
 
jennyann said:
Dennis, I know exactly where the Milk Bar was and I did go in to it at times.
I was quite small when I first used to to go to Kingstanding......about 7 or 8
and then over the years into my early teens. There weren't many places in the main "Monkey Runs" to hang out in those days. Years before in my parents youth there were even less places to hang out where you could buy refreshments. I can imagine the area you mention being a "Monkey Run". Wasn't there a fish and chip shop close by? A definite necessity for a "Monkey Run".

Erdington High Street was a "Monkey Run" as well and for many years.
My parents used to go from Witton to Brookvale Park on the summer evenings and on Sundays and walk round and round the lake.

I remember the Peacock's shop on Hawthorne Road almost close to
to the top of Hawthorn Road and Kingstanding Road. I believe their was Bakery and Greengrocers. My friend from school Margaret lived in Yerbury Grove off Farley Road near Gypsy Lane and we used to take
a right of way through the then allotments which ran all the way up to
College Road near the Perry Common Library to go to the Kingstanding
Baths plus another long walk up Hawthorn Rd to Kingstanding Road. Otherwise it would have been my Aunties or the MayFair Cinema. Would that short cut be through the Wyrley Birch area?
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Remember "THE MUSIC BOX" Record shop at the Six Ways end of High Street, in Erdington? I used to buy all my 78's and 45's from there. I used to go to my Auntie Madges on Gravelly Hill. She ran a Dancing School there.
 
hi i started at this school in 1937 so im a bit ahead of you and i am sure miss Poole was head mistress then the front looks very much the same bar for the lines on the road gibbo
 
Hi,
I went to Aldridge Road Girl's School, 1940 it was a new school, the headmistress was named Miss Fisher.

The headmaster of the Boy's school was Dr Locke, a tyrant with the cane.

Was anyone a pupil there,?

From King's Road, near Shady Lane we walked over the concrete roads through the 5 cornfields to school , the roads were called the 'white roads'
there was a green patch in one of the cornfields from a destroyed farm house.

Iriselsie.
 
Hi Iris I live in Dunedin road do you remember it. I can imagine those cornfields but things change unfortunately. Take care. Jean.
 
Hello again, when we left the Kingstanding Rd area, and Cranbourne road school, we lived near the bottom of Calshot rd, Great Barr ? or was that Perry Barr ? Anyway, we went to Beeches Rd school. I remember it quite well, with single storied, wooden clapboard clad sides, and a tall Gymnasium containing thick ropes hanging down, with ties to the climbing bars all round the sides. I loved the huge wooden Horse etc, the polished wooden floors. I'd never seen a place like it before----I can smell that special smell now--as I write about it. For kids that spent much of their free time climbing everywhere, this was paradise. I remember the sloping playground, newly finished in smooth asphalt, where you could race your Dinkey toys down at great speed. NOW !--who can solve a 60year old mystery for me ? One day when we were at Beeches road school, the WHOLE school was uprooted , and made to walk all the way to the Clifton cinema on the Walsall rd, to watch a strange film about gangs of orphanned kids, who lived among the bombed ruins of a major city---I think it was a German one--Hamburg or Berlin. The images of this film, and of us all being escorted by the teachers all that way, along narrow pavements has never gone away. What on earth was that all about ?? what a subject for little kids--Disney it weren't.
 
Used to play football at the top of Templeton Rd.We called that area the Davis Estate. Aldridge Rd.school had a dental surgery where the kids from the Kingstanding schools went if they required treatment.Feared by all.
 
Hi Jean,

Know Dunedin Road well, your houses back onto my parents garden & drive. (Kings Rd nr Shady Lane ) I tried to buy one in 1949, but husband was still in Army for another 7 years so no go.
We used to play in the field behind our house and your houses were built on. we moved there 1939.

Iris
 
I remember the dental surgery at Aldridge Road Junior school well.Mom took me in one Friday morning and I walked out half hour later less 6 teeth!!I can still remember the gas mask being placed on my face.It was the last day of my 1st year 1960 at Great Barr Comp.
 
Les ours was Trinity road clinic. Iris we are on the left with not a house to be seen as Southgate and Rockmead veer off to the left and right. Lovely view think we were in the country. Jean.
 
LesR1 I remember the dentist at Aldridge Rd. - always came home with out a tooth - never any notion if filling a tooth at that clinic, and that gas mask was enough to put you off for all time. Al and I are waiting for an appointment from the Dental Hospital, B'ham. Miriam.
 
Re: kingstanding dentist

Al Banner I remember the smell of that rubber mask it is a smell I will always remember it was horrible.
My wife was at Cranbourne road school from 1941 till 1947 some of the pupils she remembers. Brian Buxton ,Pat Miles, Sheila Combes, Ronald Rowley and at Dulwich road senior girls school she says who could forget Miss Sugden with the crook arm and the headmistress Miss Ward Where are they now. Moss in Aus
 
Oh Hello Moss. in Ausralia, I was please to read your port. I too was at Dulwich Road Sec. School. Do I Know you wife? I went through the school with Miss Sugden, also Once had a telling off from Miss Ward [Head Mistress]. I also remember a Miss Smith [music teacher] - She made me stand in the corner of the class room in the rubbish basket - just for coughing - truth!

I also remember a Miss Mills who had a very old fashion car and dressed old fashioned, but I thought she was a lovely lady.



Miriam.
 
Re: kingstanding Dulwich road

Hi Al Banner my wife was at Dulwich road seniors from 1946 -1950 her maiden name was Patricia Stanton if you were there at that time you may remember her because she was blind in one eye. My late sister Shirley Sellars was also there at the same time. My sister Maureen 4 years later and my sister Bronwyn 9 years later. All 3 went right throu the Dulwich Road system as did myself and my brother Stanley. Miss Sugden was also my mothers teacher in Aston so she must have been teaching for a long time Moss in Aus
 
Myself and my wife were both blessed with the Aldridge road clinic when we were at school (both at Kingsland road but didnt know each other then)
Along with the gas mask I remember the most frightening part was the metal clamp they opened up between your teeth to keep your mouth open. there was a particular nurse there, seemed to be in charge, always shouted at you when going into the surgery, and there always sounded like an augument going on as you slipped into oblivion, still feel the pain then like twang twang twang. every year our dental check up at school and every year I had the dreaded notice to take home to mother, thankfully I still have most of my own teeth but no thanks to the Aldridge road clinic

Goffy
 
I wonder if your wife remembers my mom Maurice, she was one of the dinner ladies at Dulwich Road for quite a while around that time.

My younger brothers Douglas and Gordon Gibson also went to Dulwich road seniors after Cranbourne, . E.
 
Fond memories indeed of the dental service of the time.I am not sure if I went to the Aldridge Rd clinic but I suppose I must have done. I lived in Hawthorn Rd and went to Dulwich Rd Infants and Hawthorn Rd Juniors in the 50's.
I remember all the things mentioned, you were pulled into the surgery,plonked into the chair and the mask clamped over your mouth--no one ever spoke to you or explained what was going on. My horror memory is sitting around a large sink with other children all spitting out blood and wondering what the hell was going on! I came home once having had six teeth out at one session, that was to much even for those day's because Dad went down there and raised the roof.
 
Re: kingstanding school dinners

Eric Gibson My wife and I remember the school dinners very well. If I remember rightly they were prepared on Rough road then transported round to the various schools they were good tucker as I remember them. We don't remember your mother or any Gibson's. Do you remember the nit nurse coming round, my wife went home from school very upset one day because she did not get a note (she did not have any) she thought it was some sort of a reward. Funny enough when we came home for a holiday in 2000 we went to Cranbourne road school to see our niece Sharon she was a teacher there and the first thing we saw was the head lice inspection. There was an outbreak of head lice here in a local school and someone came up with the idea of using setting gel which seem to have cured the problem.

You can stop scratching now. Moss in Aus
 
Hello Maurice. Sorry I'm a little late with this reply, but I don't recall Patricia Stanton by names - it may be that we went through different streams through the school [I was in A] also maybe she was y younger than me. I remember the names Josephine Hett and Diane Carter. Miriam.
 
Re: kingstanding fireplaces

Al Banner With 48 children in a class its not possible to remember everybody. Do you remember the triplex firegrates that were installed in the Kingstanding houses, our house had one, it had two big ovens on the left hand side with a biscuit oven underneath and on the right hand side was a door the chimbney sweep used to poke his cleaning brush up.Underneath was open fire which had a water boiler behind.In front was a hob to boil a kettle on then underneath that was the ash pan. On this range my mom used to cook the whole of the sunday lunch. In the winter the oven plates were rapped in brown paper and put into our beds to warm them up. Then came that everybody had to have the "modern tiled fireplace" installed and the house was never as warm again.
Moss in Aus
 
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