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    Bordesley green

    Is that where they used to clock the 'bundy'?
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    Bordesley green

    why cant i pick up thumnails?
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    Bordesley green

    I too remember Hydes. I also remember Mrs Harris who lived at 32, I think Bordesley Green Road, with her cross over pinny and her turban going with a jug and basin to get the faggots and peas. My mother also went in there one day and asked for a shillings worth of meat for her husbands tea...
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    Newspapers : From Birmingham Post 150 years ago

    Hi, Have you any other information regarding the Mons. Blondin you mention? I am trying to find a Mons. le Blonde a trapeze artist, who is supposed to have married a gt. gt aunt of mine. Not having a lot of success so am grasping at straws. Thansk
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    The Dam Busters

    The Dam busters is one of my absolute favourite stories about the war. I have seen the film so many times I cant count the number. BUT!, the last time I saw it it had been adulterated by a "politically correct", TV company. This made a complete mockery of the event as some words were relevent...
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    The Fair in Stechford!

    Hi, It seems we have two similar experiences, at least mine and your Grandmother. Wouldnt it be funny if we are talking about the same caravan couple. I have no idea what the surname of my Gt. Aunt Mary would be, other than her maiden name of Johnson. Monsieur le Blonde could well be a...
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    Birmingham Youth Choir

    Re: Town Hall Concerts Birmingham childrens choir 1953 ish I was privilidged to be a member and remember many of the wonderful stirring and funny songs we sang that made the rafters of the Town Hall ring. I was in two concerts, the third one I was accepted...
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    Cinema - ledsam street,

    Does anyone remember the name of the cinema, is it still there?
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    Birmingham Youth Choir

    Does anyone have any information regarding the choir made up of selected children from Birmingham schools. I was privilidged to be a member and remember many of the wonderful stirring and funny songs we sang that made the rafters of the Town Hall ring. I think Desmond McMahon had something to...
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    Bierton Road Junior and Infants School

    re: Miss Pitchford later to become Mrs Raxster. My sister Vera taught at Bierton Road Junior and Infants in the fifties. She spent many happy years there particularly during the time of Mr Wise the Headmaster. Unfortunately she died last week on the 17th October after several years as an...
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    Bordesley green

    Hello everyone I have been absent from this forum for a long time and it was great starting at the top and working through. All the nostalgia came back.. As a Shropshire lass I never considered myself a Brummie, until I left. It was then I realised just how good a community it was to live in...
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    Bordesley green

    sorry berniew I hadn't reached your post at that time. Marie
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    Bordesley green

    Hi JohnT I remember trhe guy on the corner of Bordesley Green and Victoria Street. I used to throw in a copper or two. I also remember the herbalist in Muntz Street. Such a dark and mysterious place I used to go with my Mom. Oh I don't know what for. I do know my dad had some strange...
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    Bordesley green

    Hi Bernilew. I went to the Victoria Street Baptist Street Church for 10 years. It definitely was not Elim. It was near the No. 8 bus stop and over the road was a dress maker who seemed to specialise in bridal wear. She used to make big ribbons with the left over satin which mum bought for my...
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    Bordesley green

    Hello Bernie No, It was the baptist church, Was the Elim church the Humpage Road Mission? Went there once, very dark and small and crowded. wasnt keen. Didnt go again. Marie
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