John M, I never got to know anyone in the Woodman, I only nipped in for a quick one. It was Smith Stone and Knights where I worked on shifts. I had to smile when Phil daid "Posh end" as the River Rea used as a sewer ran back of the papermill. I lived in Devon St then, but Malvern Hill Rd previously, and Nechells Park Rd before that, next to the chippy Corner of Crompton rd.
I remember the Rocket, the beer was all keg and tasted like the proverbial.
I had a math teacher at Eliot St school was called Morgan. (I left 1960) He was short with a tash and a temper. He unjustly gave one of the girls a too hard slap up the ear and big Johnny Pickett knocked him out with a terrific right hook.