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    Birmingham Pubs

    can any one tell all the different names the cabin pub as used to be in priory square it is now the hairy lemon thanx
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    Things you said when you was a kid

    there were bomb pecks where i lived in ladywood in litle garbett street they were our playgrounds oh for the simplicity of it all
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    Cafes in and around Birmingham

    does anyone remember the bamboo cafe on spring hill i used to go there in the sixties and have many happy memories from them days regards anniekei
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    Co.Op.number.

    my mom,s number was 444207 i never forgot it as being the eldest i used to run most of my mom,s errands for her
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    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    i went to our corner shop last Friday to get the mail and a young man i would say late teens was entering at the same time as me and he said after you bab, definately a brummie word regards anniekei
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    Brummie sayings & language

    a saying just came back to me "lets go play on the bomb peck" does anyone else remember this regards anniekei
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    GARBETT ST LADYWOOD

    i think it is a sign of the times back then, cameras very scarce not like today if you have a mobile you more than likely have a camera on it, oh well weoley just have to keep trying best regards anneikei
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    Doctors

    Dr glass was my doctor also his surgery was on the corner of oliver road, he had a young doctor working with him by the name of doctor ferguson, dr ferguson remained my doctor until 1986 he seen me through my pregnancys he was a lovely man, when the surgery closed in oliver road they moved to...
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    Things you said when you was a kid

    i love primark best shop in the world lol
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    Things you said when you was a kid

    hi ray im glad im not the only one who dislikes that word and there is nothing wrong with wearing hand me downs, there was only me and my sister when i was growing (not quite there yet) me being the elder, however she was biger than me so it was me who wore the hand me downs the only thing i...
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    Things you said when you was a kid

    olds saying;s i have never liked even today (shut ya gob or shut your cake ole) meaning shut your mouth, i always considered them common and i was bought up in the backs streets of ladywood and brookfields. i am not a snob honestly i just did not like them has anyone out there got a dislike to...
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    GARBETT ST LADYWOOD

    has anyone got any pictures of little garbett street ladywood i have seen a couple on the oldladywood site, but they are big garbett street, any pics will be appreciated thank you best wishes anniekei
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    For the golden oldies

    :D Old Age, I decided, is agift I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not mybody! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggyeyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my...
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    to a friend

    A friend is someone who walks in when the whole world has walked out.
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    Camden Street, Brookfield, Birmingham

    hi astonian i remember the maults old man mault passed away in the seventies, he was a bit of a rogue but lovable, he had a big funeral i was there, even a police escort to allow all the cars across dudley road after passing through heath street, he lived in clissold street in one of the new...
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    H.p.sauce History

    a snippet of hp history The original recipe for HP Sauce was invented and developed by Frederick Gibson Garton, a grocer from Nottingham. He registered the name H.P. Sauce in 1896. Garton called the sauce HP because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving...
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    Selly Oak Hospital

    hi again ladywood my mom worked and lived there in the early fifties she was a nurse and stayed at the nurses home, my auntie norah died there and i have attended the A & E on a few occassion after the accy closed, with one or the other of my children, but that is another story, my dad died in...
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    Things you said when you was a kid

    i remember this we used to sing it to anyone we seen with red hair, were,nt we horrid regards anniekei
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    For the golden oldies

    :D FOR ALL THOSE BORN BEFORE 1945 We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, xerox, contact lenses, frisbees and the PILL. We were before radar, credit cards, split atoms, lazer beams, and ball-point pens. Before tights, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric...
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    Selly Oak Hospital

    :(hi ladywood selly oak will be closing next year and everything will be transfered to the new hospital, sadly selly oak hospital is to be demolished to make way for a new housing development, hope this clears things up for you best wishes anniekei
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