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    James Baragwanath & Co

    I worked for them in the 60s when they were just baragwanaths, learned to drive a thames trader there.
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    Can anyone place this photo?

    fox and goose
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    shop in great francis street

    I was there 1955- 1966 sister attracta was the head mistress in 55, also had two brothers patrick and peter in higher years and a sister name margaret a year lower dek you must have lived by gerald sharkey
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    shop in great francis street

    no, i went to st vincents
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    shop in great francis street

    when we lived there it was the evans family next to the snooker hall, miss rowe was the sweet shop, the little shop next to our opening was owned by a woman named joan you would often see carrying accumalators wich i think she used to charge and above her shop was bud and peter wallace (peter...
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    shop in great francis street

    that first house is where i used to live, with the big opening on the side
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    Geach Street

    found this old book while clearing a house in kingshurst, its from geach street 1938
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    looking for pub pic

    boarded up, i lived over the road in 311 hospital st
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    Where is This? Garages #20

    watery lane
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    Haseley Hall

    it was a convalescent home my brother patrick coley was there in the 50s
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    J Coley Coal Merchant Handsworth in the 1920s

    drat and my names j coley
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    Bordesley green

    the avenue pub closed down on 4th january and is no longer a pub, still waiting to see what its going to be
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    Where is this ? 178

    saltley viaduct
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    COLEY and HINKS family

    Re: Coley
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    Transport Companies in Birmingham.

    hi john the first lorry i drove was for baragwanath in the late sixties, loading potatoes from moor street (never had a licence in those days)
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