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    Blakenhale Junior School

    Sorry Jim, I addressed you by the wrong name, Malcolm, in the last post.
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    Blakenhale Junior School

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    Blakenhale Junior School

    Thanks for your prompt reply Malcolm and the kind welcome. I don't know what sago pudding is, but I will look for it on this side of the pond, someday soon. I am about to finish with the part of my memoir that covers my brief return to England, a chapter with the working title, "The...
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    Blakenhale Junior School

    Hi Malcom: I was born in Sheldon Heath in 1951, but emigrated to Canada in 1957. I returned to live with my grandparents on Blakenhale Road in 1961 and partway through the year attended Blakenhale Road Junior School. I found the schoolwork very different and quite difficult compared to what I...
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    CULL family

    My branch of the Cull family arrived in B'ham in 1877. My 2nd great-grandfather, Thomas Cull traveled with his young family from Bredon to work on the railway. In 1891 the family was living in All Saints, district 11 at Primrose Place. Until my father's generation, the family lived their entire...
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    Selly Oak circa 1920-30

    My grandparents lived at 15 Daisy Farm Road during the early decades of the 20th century. Their children were born there, including my father and my two aunts. The family eventually moved to Sheldon Heath some time in the 1940's. I was born at my grandparents' house at Sheldon Heath in 1951. I...
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