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    Perry Hall Park

    River's a lot cleaner now, Nick, - you can actually see the bottom and, surprise, surprise, there's fish and aquatic vegetation in there too.... We also raided the wood yard by the railway at the back end of the park and some of our bonfires were pretty huge as well (not as big as yours...
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    I think it was the Beacon in Great Barr
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    Perry Hall Park

    With regard to your two pictures in #34, oldMohawk, I think that, whilst the left hand picture is definitely Perry Hall Playing Fields, the second picture is of Perry Barr Park. The church in the background is St John's in Church lane and you can just make out the site screen on the adjacent...
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    Army Huts after WW2

    If you look at Perry Hall Playing Fields on Google Earth and scroll back to 1945 using the timeline feature, you will see what appears to be an army camp in the far west of the fields, next to the railway line. - Perhaps this is where you were born
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    Gun Sites

    Is that what shows up in Perry Hall Playing fields in the 1945 Google Earth photographs? By the way, no hard feelings over being shot!
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