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Handsworth Park Victoria Park Handsworth

Keith Berry took this photo of some snow-covered canoes in the park. It reminds me of when I was at Handsworth Tech and we often went to the park and on the canoes during dinner breaks. They could easily overturn and inevitably one lad fell in (luckily he could swim) but he got severely reprimanded on return to school. Much to everyone's amusement he sat in afternoon classes in his gym kit while his clothes dried.
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Keith Berry took this photo of some snow-covered canoes in the park. It reminds me of when I was at Handsworth Tech and we often went to the park and on the canoes during dinner breaks. They could easily overturn and inevitably one lad fell in (luckily he could swim) but he got severely reprimanded on return to school. Much to everyone's amusement he sat in afternoon classes in his gym kit while his clothes dried.
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Hi I went to St John wall next door the the tec, St John wall moved to William murdoc school and vis a versa that summer desks and all when I left. Knew some lads from the handsworth tec Chris bowker and nick Patrick small world .o
 
Hi I went to St John wall next door the the tec, St John wall moved to William murdoc school and vis a versa that summer desks and all when I left. Knew some lads from the handsworth tec Chris bowker and nick Patrick small world .o
Hello Noelle, when were you at the William Murdoch School? I was in the first 5th form.
 
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Hello Noelle, when were you at the William Murdoch School? I was in the first 5th form.
not go to William murdoc , sorry you miss understud me . The schools actually swoped places st john wall went up to were William murdoc used to be and stayed st john wall. Meanwhile , William murdoc moved everything puples , desks, teachers the lot to the old st john wall school .this then made handsworth tec and William murdoc hampsted hall school . St John wall stayed on its own as a catolic school .
I did not attend it her of them as I left to become an apprentice for a heating company in talbot st winson green auld f evans and sons.
 
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not go to William murdoc , sorry you miss understud me . The schools actually swoped places st john wall went up to were William murdoc used to be and stayed st john wall. Meanwhile , William murdoc moved everything puples , desks, teachers the lot to the old st john wall school .this then made handsworth tec and William murdoc hampsted hall school . St John wall stayed on its own as a catolic school .
I did not attend it her of them as I left to become an apprentice for a heating company in talbot st winson green auld f evans and sons.
Ah, now I understand! Thank you......
 
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#96 - Handsworth Park - Parish Church in background - 1903.
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#96 - Handsworth Park - Parish Church in background - 1903.
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Wonderful church & park, great pictures! Loved rowing on the lake & belonged to the St Mary's Scout troop.
 
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