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Did you meet your partner In Brum?

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I used to go todisco,s in the back room of the avenue but they would never let you out.
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I met my husband John when I was a youth leader at Ladywood Brookfield Boys Club. A friend who was also a leader and I were taking a group of the members on an orientiering weekend so he asked John to come along as he and Doug (the other leader) had experience doing it. That was 1967 and we were married in Dec. 1968. Yes you are right it is our 40th wedding anniversary on Dec. 7. Mo

As was suggested I have added John's photo the year we got married. It is at the top of Scarfell, climbing was his passion before he met me. LOL As my brother was in the mountain rescue team we spent many happy hours on the mountains, even our honeymoon. We stayed at the Black Beck if you know that area.

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have we any photographs of them
early years, be nice don,t you all think?
we all have to go in the loft soon, for the
Christmas dec,s, that's where most are kept.
happy days regard,s dereklcg.
 
I met my husband at Bournville Disco in 75, when I was 15. One of those strobe lights was going and it made me a bit dizzy so he came to my rescue. He walked with me (and a couple of friends) to the Bristol Rd where we were to part ways. We walked over the foot bridge to my side and then he decided to do the macho run across Bristol Rd back to where he was to catch the 62 Bus to Frankley Beeches. As he vaulted across the middle fence he fell over the fence flat on his face! We always say he fell for me in a big way!! We now have two grown children and two wonderful grandchildren, 2 & 4. Living in Canada but forever Brummies
 
I met my 1st wife in Corporation st in 1951 i was on embarcation leave before going to Singapore she wrote to me every week for the 2 years i was there we got married in dec 1953 stayed together for 25 years and sadly split we are still friends now
 
I met my Jock from the north here in Canada - First saw him on the news reel 7,000 immigrant coming down the gang plank tall and skinny bringing Premier Drew of Ontario a bunch of heather. I knew he was my man - chased him till i found him at a British dance club. It was a ladies tag dance. - there were two of us who tagged him each time he came around. However it was me he took home from the dance, we were engaged 3 months later and married the following year.
 
In 1951 Iwas stationed in the Suez Canel Zone with the Coldstream Guards, my family used to send the Sunday
Mercury every week, one day on the front page was the
story of a man in Glebe Farm who ran a pen-pal club for
people all over the world so I wrote to him, his daughter
Enid saw my letter and we became penpals. When I got
back to England I went to meet her and WOW! I thought
she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seenand I
still had that opinion till April last year when after 54years of married life she had a stroke and passed away.I have said many times, to the whole world she wasoneperson,to one person she was the whole world
 
Hi Bernard: Thanks for posting your story of meeting your wife Enid and I offer sincere condolences for your loss. How lucky you were to have 54 years of happy marriage with your darling Enid. Looks like you were meant to be together. Blessings to you.
 
I didn't meet my life partner in Birmingham...well, in a way I did but sadly it
didn't work out and it was many many years before I trusted anyone enough to form an ongoing attachment. I met my lovely husband in Vancouver after I came back to Vancouver after six months in Spain and six months in Brum.
I desperately needed a job to pay for my new apartment and took a job with
a sign company who were locating on the "wrong side" of town. A new company in town. Very small only five employees one of which was a
Graphic Designer. It took a while before we got together as friends.
We were engaged for several months and married in September l974
in Vancouver. We have been married for 35 years this September.
 
Hi been reading all your posts with interest and a smile on my face. My dad met my mom on Handsworth Park boating lake in 1939. He was in one type of boat and apparently she was in a larger one. He first words to her were "thats a big boat for a little girl". they got chatting and he walked her home to Lozells. He was posted to Africa and Italy during the war years and I still have some of his letters to her. They were married in 1945 and were married for 46 years until he died. I hope my marriage is as happy and long as theirs was.
 
i met my first wife when we both worked at eskimo frozen foods in heath mill lane i met my second wife when i w\as a post man in small heath
 
maggieuk said:
I can beat you all for romantic places I first met my hubby in Brum's Fish Market
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Sings:


...''There's a plaice for us
somewhere a plaice for us
Peace and quiet and open air
wait for us
somewhere''

Now that really IS sole music...no codding!
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After my usual drink at the "Valley" pub I made my way to the Hot Dog wagon parked next to the 18 bus terminus run by a Spanish man called Tino and there I met two girls, one was called Sue and we met the next day and have met every day since! We married at Holy Cross Church where my parents married in 1968. Three children later (no grandchildren) we are still together and living in Billesley....
 
I was working at the Locarno when I met my ex husband in 1965 and married in 1966 - been divorced 6 years. We had some good times.
 
We met at The Barley Mo Ward End. I went with my friend to a dance there and met Michael and his friend. He asked for my phone number and we started dating in 1972. It was our 36th wedding anniversary yesterday.
 
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Well first of all i hope you will excuse me by saying this on the forum,
i met my wife outside the co/op bakery in mannor rd stechford many years ago ,and i have not looked back since
no regrets whats so ever and we still have a bond between us stronger than ever
and mossy as i have known you many years for being a close friend of a friend [ micky ] and vera ;
you always had good taste in women , and its nice you have finaly settlrd down from your rod steward days
you was always a tasty guy in one way or another. take care mossy
have a nice day every body , best wishes , Astonian ;
 
I seem to have been a extremely lucky man, one woman, one love, one lifetime, to the rest of the world she was one woman called Enid, to me she was and still is the
world, I am not sure if we shall ever meet again on another plain, but to have loved such a lovely lady for 54 years was indeed a privilege. Bernard
 
Bernard67Arnold said:
I seem to have been a extremely lucky man, one woman, one love, one lifetime, to the rest of the world she was one woman called Enid, to me she was and still is the
world, I am not sure if we shall ever meet again on another plain, but to have loved such a lovely lady for 54 years was indeed a privilege. Bernard
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Sorry got a bit carried away, to answer the question, in 1952 I was serving in the
Suez Canel Zone in Egypt, my brother used to send me the Sunday Mercury each week, there was a picture of a Horace
Turville from Glebe Farm on the front page one week, he ran a pen pal club for people all over the world, forces as well,
I wrote to him, Enid was his daughter ,saw my letter and we became pen friends. After I came out of the army in 1953 I
went to see her and that was it! She was the most beautiful women I had ever seen, Love at first sight? no doubt whatso
ever, we were married at Castle Bromwich Church on August 28th 1954. Two children and many years later she passed
away in April 2008., As I said before I do feel privileged to have known and loved, we had ups and downs but there is a
bond that holds you together and its called True Love. Bernard
 
Back row of the Ritz, Bordesley Green East - Saturday ABC Minors ( "We are the boys and girls well known as minors of the ABC.."). Chucked an ice cream cone at her (empty) then aged 11- I was 13 AND a monitor. Took her to see Friendly Persuasion later. Now she chucks things at me some 55 years later! Bad aimer though, thank the Lord.

Den
 
Met my lovely wife on a blind date in Scotland, thanks to a mate of mine. He wanted to go up there to meet his cousin (female) and wanted me to go with him. Well I told him I was going to look great sitting there with the two of them, so his cousin arranged a girl for me, and the rest (as they say), is history. We married in 1974, and I love her as much now as I did then. My mate, by the way, ended up marrying a lass from Brum.
 
I met my former husband at the Tower Ballroom in July 1957 - he was in the RAF (not in uniform that night) having returned four days before from South Australia and Christmas Island where he witnessed the atom bomb tests - I'm sure many of you will have seen the photos of young men with their backs and no protection when the bomb was deternated!!! We were married the following year - but out of that I have 3 lovely grownup children, 7 beautiful grandchildren and one delightful gt.grandson.
Sheri
 
I met my first husband at the brum beat cavern in summer row .he played guitar in a band there..my second partner i met at bham maternity hospital where we both worked ...i had our daughter in that hospital years later .
 
I met my husband on 6 August 1963 in Handsworth Park. The Great Train robbery was a couple of days later. It has sometimes been said (not by me I hasten to add) that if we had committed the robbery, we would have been out by now! Shortie
 
sandracoley said:
I met my first husband at the brum beat cavern in summer row .he played guitar in a band there..my second partner i met at bham maternity hospital where we both worked ...i had our daughter in that hospital years later .
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Blimey Sandra, I worked there for 37 years since the first day it opened (1968). In the Labs. Good to know you also survived the Matty Blues.

Den
 
View attachment 50785I met my husband in the Kardoma in Colmore Row, there were a gang of boys all working at Lucas, and they met in the KD every Saturday afternoon. I had said I would go to the pictures with one of them. So when Brian asked me to go with him I had to say no but luckily we met again at the bus stop outside Grey's, one thing led to another and we met again at the Ice Rink the following Monday. We married in 1957, I was 19 and Brian 21, and they said it would never last!!!!!!!
 
i did put on the forum before when we had this thread ..i met my hubby in one of the most romantic places in Brum ..the Fish Market in the Bull Ring...like you Di ..they gave us 6 months .lol
 
I lodged in Billesley in the1960's and there met my one and only forever, she was the girl next door. We got married in 1967. How the time flies when you are happy (but she dosen't help me clean me car now like she did that first day we met
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