That's the good thing about the BHF, you read something that you think you might know something about, research it and find out things you did not know about. I found the website very interesting, still have some reading to do. Cannot however throw any light re the sandpits, obviously it is a sandy area as there is the sand quarry in Branton Hill Lane and this shows up on the google map, as Morturn points out. Yes the OV ground lies to the right, they had a fire about 5/6 years ago and the hall had to be renovated, the crem is on the left hand side and has grown considerably over the past 10 years or so. I have lived in Streetly for the past 45 years, Little Hardwick Road hasn'tchanged very much in that time, Chester Road is also very much as it was except for the fact that most of the garages have disappeared and flats built in place of them. I shall look forward to delving further into your website and let's hope someone remembers something about the sandpit.
As it happens one of my best friends at school was a Valerie Myers, a name you don't very often come across.