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    Book: A Brummie Kid by Graham Twist

    Hello Polly, Thank you for your kind remarks, if you want to hang on a bit I am going to doing a booksigning at W H Smiths in Bromsgrove on the last Saturday in May, 11 oclock to 1 oclock. I would be pleased to sign your copy for you even if you have already purchased it. Many...
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    Book: A Brummie Kid by Graham Twist

    Astonian, Thank you so much for your comments, its sometimes nice to know we are appreciated. The book can be got at Waterstones, Smiths, Amazon and various other places. £9:99 and getting cheaper by the day. Where abouts in Aston are you from? Many regards, Graham.
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    Book: A Brummie Kid by Graham Twist

    Hello all, My follow up book to "A Birmingham Backstreet Boyhood" has just been published. It can be got at the usual. places, it is called "Brummie Kid" not my choice of title, but thats publishers for you. I would be interested to hear any comments about my first book, to see where people...
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    "Brummies"

    You ask me what a Brummy is, and I,ll answer as best I can They are people who are funny, and I am their biggest fan Some support the Aston Villa and some support the Blues And it really is a killer if both of these teams lose Cos we are proud of our City we cant stand it when we dont win We...
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    CROWN GREEN BOWLING

    Hello fellow Brummies and bowlers, I play bowls for the R.S.J.C. bowling club now based in Rubery. I have bowled matches at the "Three Magpies" the "Greyhound" and lots of the greens around Brum. Bowls is a great game where anyone of any age or...
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    A Birmingham Backstreet Boyhood

    Hello folks, I have just been told that my book will be out this coming week. 18th August onwards. It has been a long time in coming and I only hope it will please the readers. Once again thank you to all those interested people. Graham V Twist.
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    A Birmingham Backstreet Boyhood

    Hello folks, My book s publishing has been put back to September due to the Publishers moving premises etc. I am disappointed to say the least, but thats the way things are. If and when I get more information about a date I will post it here. Many regards, Graham V Twist.
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    A Birmingham Backstreet Boyhood

    Hello Cromwell and fellow Forum members, Thank you so much for your kind remarks about the book. It is the sort of thing that in my opinion anyone of a certain age could have written. We were all in the same boat, skint, poor, needy, but...
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    Weather : past adverse weather in Birmingham

    Colin,         I too was a pipe strangler ,and also worked through the same weather as you mentioned I was doing it for J S Wrights on the Hagley Road. I remember one day it was that cold that as we spoke our breath froze, we had to gather it up and throw it on the fire to thaw it...
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    Weather : past adverse weather in Birmingham

    Re: Blews Street Park We were living in Charles Arthur Street in 1947, and I can remember our mom opening the front door to be faced by a wall of snow, I went to my school Cromwell Street and the caretaker had dug a path from the gate to the school, the snow was piled up so I couldnt see over...
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    William Cowper Street School

    Went to Cowper Street from 1949 to 1952, then onto that great old school Summer Lane.I lived next door to Cowper street school and to my abiding shame was one of the kids who nearly wrecked the place during one summer holiday. Me and my mate Alec Moss would climb on to the top of the roof and...
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    cromwell arms pub

    Cromwell, have you seen the Carl Chinn Brummagen Magazine April 2006. An interesting bit on the Pub. Adelaide.
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    The General Havelock

    Cromwell WHO ARE YOU???, Lily Rainey was a great pal of my mom I remember her very well.my mom passed away in 2002 unfortunately. Would love to see the photos Regards.
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    The General Havelock

    My mother used to run a ladies dart team from the General Havelock in the early sixties. I have a couple of photos of the ladies dart team taken under the dart board. By the way when the dart board was closed, on the doors was painted a kangaroo with the words A.I.F. 1943?. My dad was a glass...
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