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    New Summer Street

    How lovely to see my husbands Great Grandparents on the above . They where William and Esther Wheeler 118 New Summer Street. thankyou .
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    Missing photos (as a result of Forum hacked 2011)

    Well done Warren , i haven't been able to access the site for a couple of months so happy to be part of it again.:adoration:
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    Mike Guest

    Although i never met Mike, there is always something about this forum that you do think you know people personaly. So all i can say is Goodbye and God -bless Mike i am sure you will be greatly missed:( .
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    Birmingham Council House Waiting List

    My mum got her first council house in 1960, and by then she had eight children, they came across from Ireland in 1948 and moved around alot because of notice boards on lodging houses saying no Blacks and no Irish. It was always word of mouth that they got bigger rooms. One day when my Dad was...
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    Brummie sayings & language

    If we sat too close to the fire my mum would say we would end up with cornbeef legs.
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    Tooth Family

    Jean i think that is the lady Lizy Baker who was researching that name .
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    Oneil (Oniel)

    In reference to the above we had a family party the weekend and as usual the conversation went to memories of past relations My husbands eldest brother said that he only remembered one great aunt on his mothers side , to which his mother replied that her mother had 2 sisters and one brother...
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    Oneil (Oniel)

    Good evening all i was wondering if anyone can look up a family bythe name of Oneil from Aston. The parents i have no first name but there children were Ada,Thomas,Kate and Rose all pre 1900's thank-you.
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    dudley road, winson green

    Hi Astonian, i do log in most day's to see if there is any thing i can add a memory too. Yes the four houses in our row housed four Irish Families . The Dwyer's- Ourselves- the Murphy's and the Mcarthy's in all there where about thirty children in the four houses. It was not me or my sister's...
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    dudley road, winson green

    Good afternoon Patricia, when i was eleven my family lived at 124, Dudley road from 1968, till the late 1990's when my dad died and my mom moved to a Bungalow in Harborne. Our house was two doors away from ST. Patricks church and facing the now known City Hospital.When we moved there our houses...
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    My Sad Loss

    Our thoughts are with you at this very sad time.
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    The stags head briearly st

    Well i don't know what his nickname was amongst he fellow drinkers , but his grand-son said his was known as (Binky) although his real name was George Barnes. The sad side of the story was he refused a lift from some-one and then got knocked down . He left behind a wife and 9 children thank god...
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    The stags head briearly st

    My brother in-law mentioned today that is Grandfather was knocked down crossing the road, after coming out of the stags head in the 1960's . He was almost sure that he never recovered and died shortly after .
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    Medicines Of The Past

    I do-not know of the shop you asked about, but i so remember the jar of black -jack my mum swore by for healing many things it looked like blacktreacle but the smell was not nice. Also there was a tin of some thing for corns . When she moved from the family house to a bungalow we found a jar of...
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    Nan's Health Warning...1947...

    What if you picked your nose, you were told your brains would fall out.
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