oldplumber
master brummie
Does any one recall a little further up the Walsal Rd just past the crematorium at the builders merchants"Mole & Woods"towards the end of the war all those damaged battle tanks that were stored there !!!
I collected loads of shrapnel and stored it in the shed together with 5 fins from incendiary bombs. One of which came through the roof and landed in my pillow, luckily my mother had come to insist that we were to go down to the shelter since ' they were getting a bit close tonight' and we only just made it to the landing when we heard this crash and a vivid white flash lit up the whole of the upstairs. The other four fins I found in the garden. (this was at 74 Dorrington Road). We also had all the windows blown out when a bomb landed on the new (not yet inhabited) caretakers house, which was immediately opposite. There was also an unexploded land mine which landed in the garden of no. 100 (the Windwards) when most of the local kids rushed down to see the huge crater it created - then the police and bomb disposal squad arrived and we all had to clear off and a lot of houses evacuated.
Not far from Perry Hall Park on the Walsall Rd, do you remember these 1947 scenes shown in link below
By the way, I was a shrapnel collector and also touched an unexploded bomb for a dare.
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/old-street-pics.38737/post-498294
oldmohawk
My parents lived at 74 Dorrington Road from approx 1968-2013 (Anderson’s). My dads Parents also lived at 70 Dorrington it you remember themI collected loads of shrapnel and stored it in the shed together with 5 fins from incendiary bombs. One of which came through the roof and landed in my pillow, luckily my mother had come to insist that we were to go down to the shelter since ' they were getting a bit close tonight' and we only just made it to the landing when we heard this crash and a vivid white flash lit up the whole of the upstairs. The other four fins I found in the garden. (this was at 74 Dorrington Road). We also had all the windows blown out when a bomb landed on the new (not yet inhabited) caretakers house, which was immediately opposite. There was also an unexploded land mine which landed in the garden of no. 100 (the Windwards) when most of the local kids rushed down to see the huge crater it created - then the police and bomb disposal squad arrived and we all had to clear off and a lot of houses evacuated.
Hi,My parents lived at 74 Dorrington Road from approx 1968-2013 (Anderson’s). My dads Parents also lived at 70 Dorrington it you remember them
I collected loads of shrapnel and stored it in the shed together with 5 fins from incendiary bombs. One of which came through the roof and landed in my pillow, luckily my mother had come to insist that we were to go down to the shelter since ' they were getting a bit close tonight' and we only just made it to the landing when we heard this crash and a vivid white flash lit up the whole of the upstairs. The other four fins I found in the garden. (this was at 74 Dorrington Road). We also had all the windows blown out when a bomb landed on the new (not yet inhabited) caretakers house, which was immediately opposite. There was also an unexploded land mine which landed in the garden of no. 100 (the Windwards) when most of the local kids rushed down to see the huge crater it created - then the police and bomb disposal squad arrived and we all had to clear off and a lot of houses evacuated.
My parents lived at 74 Dorrington Road from approx 1968-2013 (Anderson’s). My dads Parents also lived at 70 Dorrington it you remember themI collected loads of shrapnel and stored it in the shed together with 5 fins from incendiary bombs. One of which came through the roof and landed in my pillow, luckily my mother had come to insist that we were to go down to the shelter since ' they were getting a bit close tonight' and we only just made it to the landing when we heard this crash and a vivid white flash lit up the whole of the upstairs. The other four fins I found in the garden. (this was at 74 Dorrington Road). We also had all the windows blown out when a bomb landed on the new (not yet inhabited) caretakers house, which was immediately opposite. There was also an unexploded land mine which landed in the garden of no. 100 (the Windwards) when most of the local kids rushed down to see the huge crater it created - then the police and bomb disposal squad arrived and we all had to clear off and a lot of houses evacuated.