The Kingstanding memory archive
The memories that made our community.
Kingstanding isn’t just roads, buildings and estates. It’s the people who lived here, worked here, went to school here, fell in love here and built their lives here.
Memory of the week
Alan Hitchman · 1950s · The Odeon
Walked to the matinee from about ten years old, with his younger sister — cowboy films, cartoons, Flash Gordon serials. Remembers “a big foyer” and an organ that “popped up some…
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Richard Wall · 1940s · The Odeon
Attended the matinees in 1944, singing along to lyrics projected with a bouncing ball, children tipping up the seats during the action scenes.
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Veronica Marshall · 1950s · The Odeon
A regular at the Saturday matinee — Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry — who once lost her teddy bear when a friend borrowed it during a screening. Years later she used the cine…
Read the full memory: Saturday matinees and first datesEvery part of Kingstanding life has its stories. Pick a theme — and if yours isn’t told yet, tell it.
Ted Ilsley · 1950s · Kingstanding Police Station
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2011, Ted Ilsley recalls running into Kingstanding police when he was a lad in the 1950s.
Read the full memory: Ted Ilsley runs into Kingstanding policeMrs Lutwich · 1930s · Kingstanding
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2011, Mrs Lutwich talks about moving to Kingstanding.
Read the full memory: Mrs Lutwich: moving to Kingstanding, and moving backBarry Floyd · 1930s · Kettlehouse Farm estate
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2011, Barry Floyd recalls his family moving to the Kettlehouse Farm estate from central Birmingham in the 1930s, and where his parents came from.
Read the full memory: Barry Floyd on moving to KingstandingA sentence or a story, a photograph in a drawer — every memory added here is one that won’t be lost. A real person reads every submission before anything is published.
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