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    Muntz George Frederick (1794-1857)

    I know that the great man had a country house just up the road from where I now live in Rugby; at Clifton-on-Dunsmore.
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    Mick Aston

    I am sad that he has died; he made Time Team go down a lot easier. Ted
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    Wpc56

    It may be difficult for some to accept that the racism, sexism and bullying were so entenched in policing in those days, but they were. Birmingham City Police had a particullarly bad reputation. But there again this drama was not set in Birmingham. I can see this catching on, despite the...
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    Where is This Schools? #11

    Damn! I only live to get one right. Ted
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    Where is This Schools? #11

    Surely it's Queenbridge? Ted
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    Just catching up! For Carolina: 'Stately as a galleon...' This song by the wonderful Joyce Grenfell is what you recall; just google it to get all the right words so that it may be your party piece. Ted
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    Was You One of These Children ?

    Absolutely fabulous! Thank you. Ted
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    Mike G's memorial day

    Lovely tributes; from the one time I met him I am priveleged to echo them. Ted
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    Balsall Heath.

    Well Phil, this photo of the 38th B'ham Boy Scout Group triggers happy memories for me. There I am with my drum at the front of this sizeable marching band. On the pavement in his pioneer hat, that was the uniform then is 'H', Harry Wallace the real driving force behind the growth of this truely...
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    Birmingham Trams

    Yes, they are there waiting to be scrapped. Ted
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    Sheldon Heath Comprehensive

    I must admit to liking Mrs Coombes, despite her reputation! Everyone in our form remembers to this day the demonstration she gave of corrective discipline. Each end of the school was in cruciform layout and she was taking us for maths. She looked across the angle into the adjacent classroom and...
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    Sheldon Heath Comprehensive

    The 'Coombes' was Mrs. not Miss. The latter was the former's daughter. Both were simply fierce! Ted
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    Birmingham Co-op Green Grocery Sherlock Street

    I had the best part-time job around when I was about 13 - errand boy at Branch 66 FF&G on the corner of Balsall Heath Road and Upper Cox Street. By the time I was 15 I was virtually running the place because the manager was virtually useless - and I was still at school! He got the sack and was...
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    Smells Of The Past

    Childhood memories of the aroma of the plant that sprung up on bomb sites; commonly known as 'Fireweed'. As Adolf levelled the sites the seeds of this plant that had been built over in Victorian times burst out of their long incarceration into verdant growth. I can smell it now! Ted
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    Kings Heath

    Yes Ladylinda, you are dead-right - the old brain clearly was siezing-up!
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