Voices of Kingstanding
Kingstanding resident · 3 memories in the archive
Brian Scott · 1940s · Kingstanding Community Association hall
You might say it was the cultural centre of Kingstanding. The first thing I recall about that was that my mother was the member of an organisation called ‘The Helping Hand’.
Read the full memory: Tea for the men back from DunkirkBrian Scott · 1940s · Ironville, Derbyshire
I was born in 1931 in Norton Street, Winson Green so when WW2 broke out in 1939 I was 8 years old and we lived in Hartley Road, Kingstanding.
Read the full memory: Evacuated to IronvilleBrian Scott · 1940s · Kings Road Methodist Church
Around 1943/4 I joined the 29th Birmingham Boys’ Brigade company which was attached to Kings Road Methodist Church. The minister was a Rev Conibear who left to become a missionary in China.
Read the full memory: With the Boys’ Brigade at camp, August 1945