Have you tried Friends Reunited lillian? Don't know your school, but we used to go past the legendary Saltley Gasworks on the way from Hockley to Bordesley Green when we visited my aunt. Also check out the Ted Rudge website. He may not cover Saltley [it's mainly Hockley, Winson Green and that area] but it's a wondeful [and, I find rather painful; it's so nostlgic and like a time tunnel to my childhood] trip back to the Birmingham of our youth. I used to love going to Birmingham Art Gallery [didn't realise at the time how good a collection of Pre Raphaelite paintings it had] and the museum [I can still picture the dinosaur room and the Egyptian mummy room; used to have nightmares about being locked in there at night!]. And the old market; a thousand curses to whoever pulled down the centre of Birmingham and replaced it with concrete.