Hawthorne Rd, Kingstanding - My mom put her free bus pass to good use when she lived on the Lyndhurst Estate, Erdington:
Walsall, Lichfield, West Bromwich and sometimes closer to home:
Hawthorne Rd, not sure why but that was a regular destination - I know it was easy to get to: she got the 28 junction Chester Rd and Sutton Rd (near the Yenton) and that took her straight there. I remember Hawthorne Rd for another reason: past my driving test (1967) at the the nearby Driving Test Centre - life changed after that.
Peg.
P.S. Shortly after that got my first set of 4 wheels -
Ford 100E Van - remember them? 3 gears, no synchro on 1st, rear door windows like Post Box slits, windscreen wipers that only worked when you were at a standstill -
fantastic! - mine had one additional feature: bit of a lottery if the brakes worked properly or not.