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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    I saw this DVD on sale at the National Trust reburbished back to backs near the Hippodrome when I visited there 3 or 4 years ago. You could give them a ring on 0121 622-2442
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Thanks Chris for the pics of The Capitol and the informative piece explaining the changes. It was a long narrow cinema and was never on a par with The Beaufort. Furthermore, the trains rumbling by adjacent to the cinema spoilt the concentration and brought reality back to the patrons!
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    Beaufort Cinema Ward End / Washwood Heath

    Great Chris B thanks for bringing back many memories! After moving from Nechells, the Beaufort (and the Capitol) were my local cinemas. I can tell you after scores of Saturday matinees at the Ashted Row picture house, the Beaufort was like a palace. The background to the style and design it...
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    GER22VAN Thanks for that now I can get my bearings!
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    You've probably got this pic. It's the corner of Francis Street. I don't know the other road.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    "There's a hole in my bucket dear LIZA!"
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    Bordesley Green Grammar Technical School

    db84124....Close, but it was Polly that was on the mopstick!!!
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    St Matthews school, Duddeston (Nechells) Newbie!

    Hi Bill welcome to the forum! I'm sure you'll find a lot of memories flooding back and there's some great people on here to help you out. Did I read your message correctly, your wife has an old pic of the children at St Matthews? If so please, please post it. Pics of the school are as rare as...
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    Averill

    Cabman2; I'd forgot all about the ABC Minors at the Gaiety it was certainly better than the 3d Saturday matinee at the Ash-hole as the Ashted was commonly known. I lived in Godwin Street and went to St Matthews school too, but I've a terrible memory for the shop names however. Like you I used...
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    St Chads Hospital, Hagley Road

    Not much on Google but this link gives some background history: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2442&page=75 In the 1960s I was taken ill with appendicitis and although I lived in Ward End they took me to St Chads, Hagley Road. It was a long journey in those...
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    Thornton Rd windows stonings in Alum Rock

    My mother lived nearby and I remember her saying the police hadn't a ghost of a chance catching the suspect!
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    Back to Back addresses

    Pheobe; Yes, that's correct. There is another spanner I can throw in the works.........some houses had the address e.g 3/24 Smith Street. This didn't mean 3 to 24 this meant 3 back of 24. Some courts were very small and had no court number so this was one way round it. There are some...
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    Back to Back addresses

    Pheobe; Think of each court as being a cul-de-sac only each would have a number. So in theory you could have house number 10 on a particular street then court 1, then house 11 or 12 if they used the odds/evens system. Further down the same street it could be house 36 then a space for court 2...
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    Chamberlin/Chamberlain & Hookham

    Well I worked there for a time in the late 60s and it was still a workhouse then! lol
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    Back to Back addresses

    Imagination............a wonderful word, unless you have none! So Inge Street looks a bit clinical, a bit too clean, it is afterall a museum. I went to the York Railway museum and all of the engines were clean! A fault with Inge Street in my opinion is that the brickwork looks new. Anyone who...
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