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    Stoke Street Ladywood

    Does anyone remember the greengrocers on the corner of stoke st. and william st. it was called donkey georges if I remember right.
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    Bus Tokens

    We moved from Ladywood to Kings Norton in 1956, used tokens for travelling back to St Thomas,s school for about a month until I got fixed up at Brandwood End school. I don,t think you had to be poor to get them every child who used a bus for school qualified for the tokens.
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    Where did you live

    Holliday street ladywood, then posh kings norton (we thought in those days)
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    Some old pictures of Birmingham canals

    If that is Bath Row bridge then the line and canal run parallel to Communication Row and Holiday Street right down to the old goods yard at junction of suffolk st. and Holiday St. There was 3 train lines on different levels back in the 1950,s but I think the high level wasn,t used then. The...
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    Brandwood Secondary School, Sunderton Road, Kings Heath

    Reading these posts makes me feel that I must be one of the oldest remaining pupils from Brandwood. I started there in 1955 just after the school opened and left aged 15 in 1959. I don,t recognise any of the teachers mentioned. The headmaster was mr Locker who lived quite local to the school and...
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