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    Joseph Lucas Formans Road - Home guard duties of Billy Spiers

    Am interested in finding out in which home Guard Battalion my father served. His name was Billy Spiers (William Edward) born 1910. He served in the Home Guard 1940-1945 period and was employed throughout by John Lucas Formans Road as a Battery Die-caster classed as 'Essential duties' because at...
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    Formans Road Sparkhill

    Does anyone have any old photographs of Formans Rd, Sparkhill that they would be kind enough to share? Also the Lucas Girling factory in Tysely, the allotments along Formans rd, (I think they were called Springgrove), St Johns CofE school Stratford rd, etc... and anywhere in that vicinity...
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    ARP warden Albert 'Bertie' Russell Coventry Cathedral bombing

    My Gramp Bertie Russell (Albert Edward) born in Redditch, lived in Formans rd Sparkhill, was an ARP warden the night coventry cathedral got bombed. Apparantly he returned home saying he was lucky to be alive. Does anyone have any more information of that night, or indeed my lovely Gramps?
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