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Recent content by Bern Breen

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    Brookvale Park & Witton Lakes

    Tremendous pages for me moved to live at the top end of George road in 1958 and for the next few years as I was growing up Brookvale Park was my playground. The pictures of the open air swimming pool, l find fascinating because all that was there in my time, were the fenced remains, basically...
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    aston sheds

    Kolhper a regular at Aston along with Munster
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    The Abbey St Thomas's Grammar/secondary Erdington

    Hi I was there at about the same time, I remember that football team,tragic news about Pat Hempsey. There was another lad who scored a lot called Millington in that team, also an overage goalie from our class Paul Murray. Gillian can’t help you with the Mary’s ,but I think my friend Tom Elliott...
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    Parks

    I hope my Memory is right but didn’t Tom Jones appear in the Park, as part of the Erdington Carnival in the 1960s.?
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    The Abbey St Thomas's Grammar/secondary Erdington

    Hi, I attended from 1961 - 1965 I remember the headmaster,being a Mr Doughty other teachers I remember ,not in order of preference Mr Morgan ,Mrs Wheeler ,Mr Moore ,Mr Harkin ,Mr Burns ,Mr Corrigan, Mr Sims, Mr and Mrs McCarthy . After two years the school changed from a mixed sex school , to...
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