Agree, they were teachers pets and had their own door. You know, back then the privileged few! I remember Godfrey Brown, he was year above me. Derek Douglas black lad in my class great kid. Then in about 1970 we had a black lad join called Loxey Roberts, nice lad just arrived from Africa, we had snow one day I remember talking to him about it, never seen snow before.
For me Alderlea was a very old fashioned school to what I wad used to, Only used surnames and was all boys. You were looked after if you were academic or good at sport. I wasn't any of those so struggled to survive but caught up eventually .
When I was old enough, I used the friendly Inn on Chelmsley Wood, the Malt House Tilecross and Kingshurst labour club on Saturday afternoons or the rover club with work mates also Saturday afternoons