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    devonjim reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Ivy Cottage with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I believe the photo shows the site where Acocks Green library was later built. Therefore it probably shows the buildings indicated in...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Ivy Cottage.
    The "cottage" is next to the site that was used for the library. The school `top left is the junior school on Warwick Rd and St Mary's...
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    devonjim replied to the thread RIP OZZY OSBOURNE.
    She did. And sneaked a few pictures from her window.
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    devonjim reacted to Lemonella's post in the thread RIP OZZY OSBOURNE with Appreciate Appreciate.
    devonjim Hope your daughter took a packed lunch, she will have no way of getting out to get some!
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    devonjim replied to the thread RIP OZZY OSBOURNE.
    Or do as my daughter, work in an office on Broad St
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    devonjim reacted to Cabonscooter's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Just a bit of trivia. The late Ozzie (John) Osbournes father, also John but known as Jack Osbourne worked at Witton. In the toolroom I...
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    devonjim reacted to Martyn's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My copy of the July/August 1956 edition of Witton News mentions some apprentice activities at Castle Bromwich Hall and this is from Bill...
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    devonjim reacted to Cabonscooter's post in the thread GEC WITTON WORKS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi Devonjim, yes I seem to recall that Castle Bromwich Hall was used for residential training for GEC overseas students. There was an...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Civil Defence - Handsworth? Aug 1944.
    I recall that my Mom was a member of Civil Defence, she was a school meal cook and somehow I think the two were connected. She would go...
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    devonjim replied to the thread GEC WITTON WORKS.
    Did GEC apprentices have a link to Castle Bromwich hall, maybe a training centre. Memory of going there to discuss a concert in Town...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Opposite Lock Club.
    52 Gas St use to be a restaurant called "52 Gas St" now the black painted building, it was white, canal side down towards Holliday St.
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    devonjim replied to the thread Aston Technical College.
    Chemistry was all very well, but I did work for a firm that was strong on engineering, so much so that I enrolled on a City and Guilds...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Aston Technical College.
    I did two years at Aston Tech 1958-60 doing S2 & S3 ONC in Chemistry, certificate is signed by D. Dudgeon Stockley. I was an apprentice...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Snow Hill Station.
    Looks to me as if the wall could do with an urgent dose of TLC. Back in late 70's had a load of rubble from the old station in the...
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    devonjim reacted to mikejee's post in the thread J.A.Reynolds & Co Ltd Colmore row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    1893 Reynolds James Alfred & Co. manufacturers & importers of drawing materials, 43 Colmore Row 1895 J.A.Reynolds & Co Ltd...
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