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By the way does anyone remember the Swimming Galas at Kent Street Baths, now reduced to rubble and a car park

This was a little fellow. Harkness made a point of congratulating him one morning in assembly for winning some boxing championship

Who was the guy who was a very good amateur boxer and won quite a few trophy's etc

When this website below does overcome its technical difficulty it should reveal some very interesting information. One assumes it should be available through the public library service. http://www.warstateandsociety.com/Bombing-Britain

(1960) Timbo do you remember the working that used to be in New Street at around 5pm every evening for London ex Glasgow I think. It always seemed to be a Royal Scot in charge, would that Scot have come on at Crewe? I once saw a Jube 'Jellicoe' on it, it looked brand new so I assume it was ex...

One of the most fascination aspects of Birmingham Indistrial History is that you never seem to know what will come up next, Birmingham author Ray Shill told me that he had found over 1500 trades in Birmingham!

Did you know Ian Paskin Sylvia?

One of the best examples of outwork is probably the people that made Nails in the Harborne area From the Bham Council History Site The chief agricultural productions are corn and potatoes, with market gardening carried on to a considerable extent, particularly for strawberries. There is a...

My girl friends mother made carrier bags at home in Kings Heath with a sheet metal template it was amazing to see her doing them, they were used in the Bull Ring Market

The postman by himself cannot opt you out of unaddressed mail (circulars), also you can not opt out of mail addressed to 'the occupier' with an address upon it as the RM has a duty to deliver it. The post person also receives a small bonus on all circulars delivered on their allocated rounds...

Same with unsolicited mail. I buy plastic enevelopes from Poundland and post every unsolicited letter I get back to the sender without a stamp, such fun!

I had a phone call asking me if I had been in a car accident, " I said "yes I recently have had a very serious accident and I was killed". She carried on talking with the script until the penny finally dropped. It made my day, cant wait for the next one. If someone phoned me and told me I was...

No one really knows how much this project will eventually cost, why, because there has never been a project like this before. Many projects go over budget, have a look at these: https://insuranceoctopus.co.uk/business-insurance-blog/building-projects-that-have-gone-over-budget/

There was a Lewis's record shop in the subway, I knew the manager there who eventually became the CEO of Betty Barclay and then a well known maker of high class lingerie whose name escapes me! Frank Sinatra visited the Lewis's record shop to promote an album although I am not sure of the date...

I think its more important to accept we live in a wonderful country that allows freedom of speech and expression regardless of knowledge or 'Piffle'. I for one support 'Piffle' and consider myself an experienced 'Piffler'!