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Recent content by d.williams41

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    Another pub fire

    This kind of thing will only stop when everyone is educated and therefore understands reason but unfortunately there is widespread ignorance now in the UK
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    Thomas Newnes

    I have a family tree on Ancestry and have tried to find out what happened to my grandfather Thomas Newnes last thought to be in the Wolverhampton area in 1930. He was then 55 years old. Anybody of the name of Newnes might know.
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    Winters of 1947 and 1963

    I was 8 years old in 1947 and living in Hansons Bridge Road Erdington. I know that we carried on going to school at Walmley despite the freezing conditions. I think the planes had difficulty in taking off from Castle Bromwich Aerodrome at the time but the memory is a little vague. In 1963...
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    Stechford Area

    My grandma and spinster aunt lived at 36 The Riddings up to 1963 when they were re-housed at Castle Vale. As a small boy in the late 40s I was a bit scared of walking along this road because it was a council estate but I never had any trouble from other kids there. I remember the Atlas...
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