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  1. Michael_Ingram

    Back to Back addresses

    14 families in the court behind my home - courts could be quite large
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    THINKING OF SOSPIRI (maurice)

    Thinking of you Maurice
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    computer help

    The apps might not have gone, their links may just have disappeared of the desktop, etc.,
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    Grammar schools and comprehensives in Birmingham in the 50s and 60s.

    I went to Birmingham Art School with Rodney Bedall, we remained good friends, living in London. Rodney now lives in Amsterdam after a successful acting career
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    My Lozells Family, ordinary lives, extraordinary people

    Arrived today. I am 3/4 of the way through; a great read. I went to Burbury Street School and lived in Guildford Street. There was a pawn shop on the corner of Guildford Street which had a regular queue on Monday morning. My sister worked at Lucas, including during the war. Down the road from...
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    ITS SOSPIRI'S ( MAURICE) BIRTHDAY TODAY

    Happy Birthday Maurice, all the best
  7. Michael_Ingram

    Radio

    The Archers kicked out Dick Barton - can't forgive that
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    69 Bus Route

    My dad drove the 69 in the 40s and 50s
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    Burbury street school

    I was there something like 45 to 50 so we,probably overlapped
  10. Michael_Ingram

    Lichfield Street, Birmingham

    The only photos that I have of Lichfield Street are on this thread. A lot of the information given should be quite useful. This link might help https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-workhouse-peter-walker.47028/#post-713513
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    Lichfield Street, Birmingham

    You just said that you have hovered your cursor over the icons????? This is an example of one (it is no good clicking over this one here though as it is only an example)
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    Lichfield Street, Birmingham

    The image icons
  13. Michael_Ingram

    Lichfield Street, Birmingham

    Have you clicked on them?
  14. Michael_Ingram

    Handsworth Grammar School 1950--1960

    There is an old boys Facebook page9
  15. Michael_Ingram

    Write it down

    My mom died in her mid 80s and had Alzheimers. In her last good years I lived in London, she still lived in Birmingham of course. During that time when I came home to visit her I can only describe what I did was interrogate her about her life. I learned a lot about her and my family. Even so...
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    Guildford Street Lozells

    I went to that barbers up till about 1952 but can't remember the outside, just remember the inside. I then went to a barbers near my school in Grove Lane in Handsworth. Didn't think much of them - didn't do short back and sides as good as in Guildford Street. The last 'barbers' I went to was a...
  17. Michael_Ingram

    Lennox Street

    Sorry made a mistake with you gender and it was Latimer Road not Ladbrooke Grove (long time ago). I didn't.t know about the hairdressers or the Erdington Shop (I had a friend from school who had his own butchers business in Slade Road, Erdington. The other shop that Gordon Bull had when I knew...
  18. Michael_Ingram

    Lennox Street

    Amazing - Wally's son! He was a lovely bloke. Me and a school friend stayed at Wally's mothers house for a holiday in the 50s in Ladbrooke Grove in Nottinghill, London. I left Bulls when I was about 19 and only saw Bert and Wally about once after that as me and my mom moved to West Heath after...
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    Bevington Road Aston

    My Grandmother and second husband lived in Bevington Road jus before WW2 and after the war my brother lived there from the 1950s to about the late 70s. There were family friends who lived there for many years and then I thinks they moved to Australia. I stayed there with my brother and his...
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    That would narrow it down to Aston, Edgbaston, Erdington, Moseley and Kings Heath, Northfield, Perry Barr, Yardley. Could be the Aston, the one running from Aston Church near the park to Lichfield Road or perhaps Aston Church Road near by running from Nechells Park Road to Washwood Heath Road
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