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    Dudley Zoo.

    I remember taking my son and his friend to Dudley Zoo when they were about 4 years old. I remember going up on the chair lift or something similar we walked round but when it came to us coming down Lynne wouldn't get on. So I had to walk down with her and leave Michael at the top saying stay...
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    Mum & Dad somewhere in Aston

    The photo was taken outside Aston Parish Church, I have almost the same view on my wedding photos. I think posters have been misled over the name of the garage.
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    Strictly Come Dancing

    Am I alone in finding it extremely irritating to have dancers performing in front of the guest singers?
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    Passages, Alleyways Gulletts and Snickets of Old Brum

    My ex husband was a wire drawer, he worked at A & E. Godrich is Aston just off the Lichfield Road in the mid to late 1950s, the name of the road it was situated in escapes me after all this time.
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    Jennens Association Birmingham

    I went to a talk some years ago, and the speaker said Charles Dickens wrote Bleak House based on this case. I don't know how true that is.
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    Covid vaccination process

    I am over 80 but still waiting for my first jab, I was offered Millenium Point, but there was too much walking for me so I refused. I had to ring my doctor on another matter over 2 weeks ago and the receptionist confirmed they were doing the jabs, but I'm still waiting.
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    Parliament Street Aston

    Hi Kev, I remember all those you mention except Jeanne Marsh. I am still in touch with Carol Blackstaffe, she had a brother I think named Rodney, and her gran lived in Upper Webster Street, near to Parliament Street. Was your gran related to Mrs. Plumb?
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    Parliament Street Aston

    The photo of the children on the car shows Stirks Aviary in the background, on the other corner of Parliament/Burlington Street was a disused shop was where Mr. & Mrs Woo and their daughter Olive lived. Mrs. Woo was English and her husband Chinese, it would be fascinating to know how they met...
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    Lennox Street

    Hi AMW my g.g. uncle John Yates was living at the Brook Tavern in the 1881 census, but the address is 66 Lennox Street.
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    Tame Road Witton

    Thanks Janice, I will tell my nephew, he has looked up the Birmingham Mail at the library, but couldn't find anything - I think he only looked in October 1966.
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    Tame Road Witton

    Doe4s anyone remember seeing Batman & Robin when they visited Tame Road, Witton in 1966 or 67. M y nephew who was 4/5 years old at the time was taken to see them by his dad, and they were in a photo in the Birmingham Mail, I don't recall this but my son does., I just can't imagine what they...
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    Bow Street, Horsefair

    Sorry Izzy it doesn't look familiar to me.
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    Bow Street, Horsefair

    It was a very small building, as I said I only worked there for a few months in 1954, so memories quite hazy.
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    Bow Street, Horsefair

    Izzy, if I remember rightly Boulton & Paul was the Holloway Head end of Bow Street.
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    Parliament Street Aston

    Just re-reading this thread, I had a friend June Holmes who lived at No.20 so No.18 was next door, certainly not a shop, just one of a row of terraced houses, but not back to backs, they had their own back garden.
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    Surnames

    Cher the singer named her daughter Chastity.
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    Dunn's Fruit Store, Park Lane, Aston

    Hello Ann, I remember your family's shop very well, I was often sent errands there by my mother. The fish shop next door was run by Mrs. Morris and was painted dark green, but we preferred Jones' . In my day the shop on the corner of Parliament Street/Park Lane was run by Mr. James you could...
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    Gun Trade Factories

    Hi Banjo, my dad lived in Staniforth Street not far from Price Street, he was born in 1899 so I imagine the years he spent in the gun trade was from about 1908 until he left school in 1913. He said the men he worked for were very kind and often said they couldn't eat all their dinner -...
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    Dunlop

    I have posted before that my dad spent his whole working life at the Dunlop, he was known by his workmates as Charlie Wallace after a Aston Villa player of the time, once his brother went to the factory asking to speak to Bill, but was told we only have a Charlie. Dad worked very hard in what...
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    Copies of Brummagem Magazines

    Thanks Alan.
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