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    What / Where (group picture)

    the elephant? Now that I have more information, I think I'll speak to my brother about it (he seems to remember things better from long ago!) That won't be for another week - so watch this space!!
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    What / Where (group picture)

    I'm tending to go for Mohawks "Bullring" photo - I don' remember any of that area before it was pulled down for the modern day Bull ring - But I do know that my gran's house (where my parents lived on arrival from Germany was at the bottom of the Coventry road (as in Brum City football ground?)...
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    What / Where (group picture)

    Vivien! You must be right about the elephant - my father died in 1965, so it could all fit it... except for the area. I don' ever remember going to Gosta Green - we lived in Quinton and my friend in Harborne - add in the ANN behind the elephant... would there have been anything on at the...
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    Picture re-touch

    on the right in the army uniform....
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    Picture re-touch

    John!!! Many thanks - but you have put me in a quandry... I am now no longer sure that it's a (complete) photo of my dad!! His face is looking like it's been added to the full photo ....and now that I am thinking about it, I am sure that he was MUCH TALLER THAN MY UNCLE (he was 6.2" in bare...
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    What / Where (group picture)

    OK, thanks Pedro! So, now, where was Stone Radio????
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    What / Where (group picture)

    and this is the 2nd one..printed from the negative the wrong way round so the words in the background don't help- but am assuming it is Brum, my father in 1953ish
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    What / Where (group picture)

    Right, I am going to post under this thread, as it has the right heading... This photo is from 1960's - I am assuming it is Brum as it is of me, with a schoolfriend and mom and brother!! She has no idea where it was taken , neither does my brother!
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    Picture re-touch

    Can someone take off the white on the left of the page and then clean up the photo, please? From the 1950's, my dad and uncle.
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    Picture re-touch

    oh, lovely! Thankyou both so much! I'm trying to clean up all the photos I have, to put them on my Ancestry account.
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    In the garden 2022

    and while I'm on it, avocados too....
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    In the garden 2022

    Pumpkin is a cultural and regional experience I believe!! You need to live in a country were it is a nutural veg, like in Tunisia... Yum, yum!!
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    Picture re-touch

    I'm sorry, Mohawk - I didn't realise I had posted it before... must be one of my alzheimer moments!!! Saying that, could y'all try to clean up this 50 year old photo? Cameras were not so good then!!
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    Picture re-touch

    tee hee hee!! I can see you all have enjoyed yourselves with this one!! Many many thanks, and I will send her both with/without FAG (as I seem to recall, they were called then :cool: !!)
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    Picture re-touch

    My cousin so loved the touch-up you did on her gran and grandad, could you try this one for me??
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