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    Saltley Secondary School

    Here's the teachers that were there during your Dad's time at the school.The picture is from 1956...
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    Saltley Secondary School

    Here's a few faces I'm sure you will remember,picture from around 1956....
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    Old street pics..

    It's not Brum,it's Toxteth,accoring to this https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/19/toxteth-then-now-tricia-porter-photographs-liverpool
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    Rag Market

    It's Sheffield,my daughter lives close by there...
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    Rag Market

    It looks like this now..
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    Rag Market

    Sorry,this isn't Birmingham,it's Sheffield Market.
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    Advertising in the past

    Strangely,it's my Dad's birthday today,he would have been 108 !..He passed away in 1994.
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    Advertising in the past

    My Dad worked at the Velocette for over 30 years and was heartbroken when they went out of business..He got another job fairly soon after with BSA Motor Cycles and then they went out of business a couple of years later !
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    The Lad In The Lane The Green Man

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    Coventry road Police station.

    Here's a pic of the Cock Inn https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/cock-in-coventry-road-elmdon.20019/
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    Coventry road Police station.

    I never knew any of the people living in the other houses,except the family (Mr.& Mrs.Hedge)in the first house at the bottom of the hill,next door to my Great Aunt's...Here's a picture taken in the back garden,with my Grandma on the left,with her sister Nellie...
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    Coventry road Police station.

    Here' an early map,the houses were between the arrows.
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    Coventry road Police station.

    The houses were after the Cock,on the other side of the road,but just before you got to the Clock..There was a row of about 12 pairs of 1920's semis going up the hill,a petrol station,post office,oh and "Ann's Pantry" cafe !..I think they were actually in Bickenhill,not Elmdon.
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    Coventry road Police station.

    My Great Aunt Nellie and My Grandma lived in Elmdon,in one of the houses just past the Cock on the opposite side.The row of houses were compulsory purchased by Birmingham council in the mid 60's and demolished for the runway extension,which wasn't completed for another 45 years ! I wonder if...
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    The Cabin at Sheldon

    Nearly right !..The Gee's shop was next to the outdoor on the corner of Cockshut Hill,it was a sort of deli/grocery shop..I went out with the daughter Lynn for a short while round 1959 !!!
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