Anyone from Gleadless?

[bankwood]

I was doing my 100 yds. 1st 25yds no problem but then I had to go back up the pool but away from the side and I was bricking it. So I tried to stay close to the side instead but kept coliding with kids coming the other way but I pressed on until I was unceremoniously shoved into the deep by a one Mr Wall and his big stick. I floundered and he had to hook me out of the pool. Teacher Mr Schofield was livid ha ha

[potlegs]

Mr Schofield with his huge ginger handlebar moustache. Crikey you are making memories come back here

[*Wallace*]

I remember Mr Mallaband think he was head we had a female teacher can't remember her name but it started with Mrs she would regularly have a melt down in class sobbing and screaming at us to behave she looked a bit like Maggie Thatcher same hair do.

[Plain Talker]

You mention the Tip Playman, what a terrible thing to put right next to a school and in doing so, the council destroyed what could have remained a nice little meadow by the brook.

 

I grew up near blackstock road tip, in the 60s and70s, and although we could hear the bin lorries very clearly, I don't recall ever smelling anything unpleasant from it, even in the height of summer.

[Beamish]

Your memory isn't that good Potlegs. It was Mr Goldstone with the handlebar moustache. Schofield was the spectacled stocky bloke who liked to dish out the corporal punishment.

 

Chris

 

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As far as the 'tip' is concerned, I used to love going down there. It was a constant source of pram wheels for the frenetic trolley-building during the summer months, or large pieces of cardboard for the grass slides.

 

Chris

Edited June 6, 2014 by Beamish

[neilf]

hi anyone know Gary Mark Neville and David Crossley, lived on Blackstock Close, would love to know if they still live in the area Thanks Penny.

[Carmen.]

I lived on Selly Oak Grove Around the time between 1963 and 1970, give a couple of years.

 

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No, sorry. I mean Ironside walk.

[trav4]

I lived on Selly Oak Grove Around the time between 1963 and 1970, give a couple of years.

 

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No, sorry. I mean Ironside walk.

 

Selly oak Grove wasn't built in 1963.

[neilf]

anyone remember Pat Catherine and Robert Sides, lived in the maisonettes across from the Horse and Groom.

[richarde]

Your memory isn't that good Potlegs. It was Mr Goldstone with the handlebar moustache. Schofield was the spectacled stocky bloke who liked to dish out the corporal punishment.

 

Chris

 

---------- Post added 06-06-2014 at 12:44 ----------

 

As far as the 'tip' is concerned, I used to love going down there. It was a constant source of pram wheels for the frenetic trolley-building during the summer months, or large pieces of cardboard for the grass slides.

 

Chris

 

'Scoffy' used to call you a pob and hit you with the board ruler at the front of the class.

 

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I remember Mr Mallaband think he was head we had a female teacher can't remember her name but it started with Mrs she would regularly have a melt down in class sobbing and screaming at us to behave she looked a bit like Maggie Thatcher same hair do.

 

Female teachers, as I remember, were Mrs Barrett, Mrs Young and one serious bad ass on the ground floor called......................nope can't remember!!