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    Dudley Zoo.

    I remember taking my son and his friend to Dudley Zoo when they were about 4 years old. I remember going up on the chair lift or something similar we walked round but when it came to us coming down Lynne wouldn't get on. So I had to walk down with her and leave Michael at the top saying stay...
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    Mum & Dad somewhere in Aston

    The photo was taken outside Aston Parish Church, I have almost the same view on my wedding photos. I think posters have been misled over the name of the garage.
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    Strictly Come Dancing

    Am I alone in finding it extremely irritating to have dancers performing in front of the guest singers?
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    Passages, Alleyways Gulletts and Snickets of Old Brum

    My ex husband was a wire drawer, he worked at A & E. Godrich is Aston just off the Lichfield Road in the mid to late 1950s, the name of the road it was situated in escapes me after all this time.
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    Jennens Association Birmingham

    I went to a talk some years ago, and the speaker said Charles Dickens wrote Bleak House based on this case. I don't know how true that is.
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    Covid vaccination process

    I am over 80 but still waiting for my first jab, I was offered Millenium Point, but there was too much walking for me so I refused. I had to ring my doctor on another matter over 2 weeks ago and the receptionist confirmed they were doing the jabs, but I'm still waiting.
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    Parliament Street Aston

    Hi Kev, I remember all those you mention except Jeanne Marsh. I am still in touch with Carol Blackstaffe, she had a brother I think named Rodney, and her gran lived in Upper Webster Street, near to Parliament Street. Was your gran related to Mrs. Plumb?
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    Parliament Street Aston

    The photo of the children on the car shows Stirks Aviary in the background, on the other corner of Parliament/Burlington Street was a disused shop was where Mr. & Mrs Woo and their daughter Olive lived. Mrs. Woo was English and her husband Chinese, it would be fascinating to know how they met...
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    Lennox Street

    Hi AMW my g.g. uncle John Yates was living at the Brook Tavern in the 1881 census, but the address is 66 Lennox Street.
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    Tame Road Witton

    Thanks Janice, I will tell my nephew, he has looked up the Birmingham Mail at the library, but couldn't find anything - I think he only looked in October 1966.
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    Tame Road Witton

    Doe4s anyone remember seeing Batman & Robin when they visited Tame Road, Witton in 1966 or 67. M y nephew who was 4/5 years old at the time was taken to see them by his dad, and they were in a photo in the Birmingham Mail, I don't recall this but my son does., I just can't imagine what they...
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    Bow Street, Horsefair

    Sorry Izzy it doesn't look familiar to me.
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    Bow Street, Horsefair

    It was a very small building, as I said I only worked there for a few months in 1954, so memories quite hazy.
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    Bow Street, Horsefair

    Izzy, if I remember rightly Boulton & Paul was the Holloway Head end of Bow Street.
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    Parliament Street Aston

    Just re-reading this thread, I had a friend June Holmes who lived at No.20 so No.18 was next door, certainly not a shop, just one of a row of terraced houses, but not back to backs, they had their own back garden.
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