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Yeah that's sad as I said in a previous txt I worked in the spares dept it was a nice place to work but the boss couldn't get his round me having long hair moustache and a smart appearance ( I was in a"group") so I left

Cor my old school from 52 to 59 don't recognise anyone but is Mr Challis I see ?

Franklin and Wicksteed were out and out bullies and roe wasn't much better we got our own back on him when we went camping and filled his running vest with air holes from an air rifle lol

Hi Richard I'm still hanging on in there lol !!

I lived at the back of there from 51 to 63 went nearly every sat morning from about 1955 to 61 magic !!

Probably getting my park's mixed up unless there was a jamboree of some sort in Handsworth Park at a later date memories not too good these days

If it was the big jamboree in Handsworth Park then I was there but as a cub as I was only 10

Great stuff passed it many a time

That was it yeah my mom sent me a couple of times with the instruction '5lb of tater an mek sure she knocks the dirt off afore she weighs em !

Hi Richard can you remember a little greengrocers embedded in the wall under the Villa cross pub I'm sure my mom used to call it Aunty's Vi,s

Stone me just got onto this threadby accident what fab pics of Villa rd loved it there left Handsworth in 63 and never been back

My grandad Alfred 'Bade' Ainsworth used to work the lifts on Saturdays in the early 60s

I don't know what it's like now, I haven't lived there for 3o years but it used to feel like a town

Yep Sat shopping with mom and auntie ' up town ' or meeting my mates or a girlfriend it was always called uptown