OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

Another query!  Can anyone tell me the name please of the former pub that was on the junction of Oak Road and Lodge Road?  It was roughly triangular with the ddor at the apex.  It is now used by 'Headstart'

Thanks

Steve

It was the Lodge Tavern, spent many a happy hour in the club room upstairs.

Should have been in the Youth club over the road!

Thank you Barbara.  I recall the Youth Club.  They built it as an adjunct to the two classrooms used by the Grammar School when the Grammar School moved out of the town centre.  The 1st Years used to travel between the main site near the High Street and Lodge Estate which was used both as an Infants School and by the Grammar School.  The Two rooms that faced Lodge Road were Science labs.

The youth club building or where it was is now used to train unemployed people new skills I think

Both myself and older sister remember trudging up Lodge Road from the main Grammar school to take lessons before the school eventually moved to Clarkes Lane. Also remember the long walks to the playing fields at the back of the Old Church before we moved .

What years were you there Barbara?  I was there 1962 - 1969.  I reckon we must have been there about the same time.

So we are contemporaries.  Your sister would have been in the same year group as me.  I was an Olympian.  Gill Turner was the House Master then.  He taught Woodwork.

Stephen Williams at October 18, 2010 at 6:11 PM

So we are contemporaries.  Your sister would have been in the same year group as me.  I was an Olympian.  Gill Turner was the House Master then.  He taught Woodwork.

I was at the Grammar School in 1954-58. Also an Olympian, Dickie Hayward the Physics master was House Master then.

Roger

Mad Sam!!

Mad Sam was Sam Weilch who used to teach first year Science, He inhabited those labs at the front of Lodge Road School. H e waas notorious for wanting the girls to sit at the front of the class.

Roger

I must be getting old as I cant remember was it 1950 or 51 when we started to use lodge estate school as an overflow. At that time the school playing fields were at Birmingham road opposite the archway to the golf club

barbara at October 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM

Mad Sam!!

and wanting you to help him tidy the stationery room!!

Lodge Estate school must have been a general overflow because we used it for woodwork,metalwork and tech drawing, and we also used the playing fields at Birmingham road opposite the archway to the golf club.I went to the  Secondary Tech. School which changed its name to the Technical High School between 1958-1963.  (originally Cronehills)

I went to 'Menzies High School' shortly after it ceased to be the Grammar. Mr Turner my metalwork teacher in year one (and woodwork in year 2) was a smashing old gent and a great tutor. I was an Olympian.:D

Paul at December 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM

I went to 'Menzies High School' shortly after it ceased to be the Grammar. Mr Turner my metalwork teacher in year one (and woodwork in year 2) was a smashing old gent and a great tutor. I was an Olympian.:D

I believe Gill Turner was in the tank corp during the war as he used to tell us how, when closing the hatch, if you didn't get your hands out of the way quickly enough, you would lose your fingers.  I remember him boiling up the woodwork glue which used to smell foul.  It was an animal glue (don't know what bits!) and he used two pots, one inside the other, to heat it.  When demonstrating the correct use of a tenon saw, he would stand, legs akimbo with hands either side of the saw, just holding it with his index fingers, saying "Always let the saw do the work".

Thx for the wonderful mremories of Gil Turner. I remeber him from when I was at WBGS in 1954. His wife taught Domestic Science I think.....He always struck me as a very precise and exacting man who had little patience with people who didnt take woodwork seriously. It is  a testament to his teaching that years later when building scenery for plays all his instruction on sawing and measuring etc, would come flooding back to me.

Thx for reminding me of him...great memories. I was an Olympian also..

Roger