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    Stourport

    These were taken at Stourport around late 50s. Can anyone make them any clearer, I would be most grateful. Thanks
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    Nan's Health Warning...1947...

    Dennis worse still - you could have looked like Harpo Marx
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    Enid Goodwin Dance School

    I started to learn ballroom at Nineveh Dance Studios and then moved on to Enid Goodwin and I can remember the kiss waltz as well. I used to go with my brother and his mates. It was a very different quick step they did there as to anywhere else I have been to, but I always remember learning and...
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    Nan's Health Warning...1947...

    Eat your crusts and you will get curly hair
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    Park Road Hockley

    Ted, Tommy Pagett really rings a bell with me - did have he any connections in Ford Street?
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Bernard no :cry: or should it be :)
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    Nan's Health Warning...1947...

    If you inadvertently swallowed something like a cherry stone, we were told you would get appendicitis
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Ray you are lucky you still have the figure of a young man
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Do you remember in the 60s when they used to wear the tie above the tiepin which was holding the shirt collar together?
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    Nan's Health Warning...1947...

    I was told if you touched broken egg shells you would get warts
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Whilst I was watching Henry VIII on TV he made someone a Knight of the Garter and then I thought my dad used to wear garters to keep his socks up. Does anyone still use them? Also do men still use tiepins, cufflinks, fob and watches, arm bracelets, collar studs? I am sure someone on this...
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    Park Road Hockley

    Does anyone have any photos of 96 Park Road, this was almost opposite Abbey Street and was a small shop. Friends of mine had this shop in the 50s. Thanks
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    Birmingham buses

    I am not sure whether this has been posted, but if it has, sorry for the duplication. www.dereksbusphotos.fotopic.net
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    Birmingham buses

    Ragga do you think it is Gt Charles Street
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    Sutton Park

    We caught 29A from Hockley Brook. Pop bottle and all.
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    Sutton Park

    Perhaps someone will correct me here, but was it the 29A bus that took you to Kingstanding Circle and your walked from there, or not. I remember it being quite a lengthy walk.
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    Memory Stick

    Astonian I went on to the site you recommended by could not find memory stick, do they come under a different name?
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    Sutton Park

    Hi Sistersue, we used to go to Sutton Park in the early 50s and it was at a time when portable radios were starting to appear and the neighbour who took with with her son carried it. It was cream and the size and weight of it was unbelievable at the time and I now wonder how on earth did she...
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    Memory Stick

    Bernie thanks - I have done it but half way through I ran out of space on the stick so I think I will buy another stick which will hold more data. But at least I know. Again thanks. Carol
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    Memory Stick

    Can anyone help on how to copy folder/files from my PC on to a memory stick. Thanks :rolleyes:
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