NextBackIn 1945, Webheath held a Victory Parade and we marched from Upper Norgrave (Hill Top) having paraded beforehand on a piece of waste ground on the corner of Heathfield Road/Church Road. The procession was proceeded by a man playing a large trombone , whether there were more I can’t remember, and we went down Heathfield Road into Birchfield Road and turned round at the junction of Birchfield Road and Red Lane (Bromsgrove Road) and then went back again.
The photograph of me was taken when I was 6 and my parents lived at 383 Birchfield Road and were friendly with a family on the other side of the road called Stubbs. Wendy Stubbs, Robin Stubbs and myself were the “The Big Three”. Wendy, being the eldest, was dressed as “Britannia” complete with a trident, Robin was ”Uncle Sam” complete with a top hat decorated with the Stars & Stripes, and myself had the misfortune of representing the Soviet Union with a “Hammer & Cycle” emblem on my tunic.
After what I have read and been told in my dotage, I would now refuse to represent the “Starlinist Empire”.
My one regret is a photograph of all three of us together was taken but unfortunately I have not got a copy.
