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Recent content by Donbogen

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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I know its first year in this house 1 minute from the sea but i was not working this weekend i have never seen so many Sparrows as i have not seen many past few years Frogs Toads Newts as well my hounds have been busy scaring the Gulls away from them thats my Autumns job sorting both ponds out
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Again not in my garden had this catus and many others for years i woke up to this today there are 6 more buds i hope they flower at once first time i had one flower
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    Medals

    IWM has reversed its plans on not having a VC display
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    WITTON ROAD

    2 windows and doorways one was blocked off been a storeroom used to spend all my pocket money in there still spending my money on the same stuff now we never grow up
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    WITTON ROAD

    I recall a Mrs Bevan been mentioned in our house
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Loved going to the Futurist with a date after the movie pop into the Grapes a no trills pub i knew how to spoil em LOL
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    Stechford Area

    Anyone recall a shop called Southern Railways near Stechford Station
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    Rag Market

    In the 80s they used to hold a antique market every Monday i was on night shift at IBM Hagley rd i used to nip out at 6am i got some good stuff there as i was converting our first house back to circa 1930s
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    Bombing Brum

    Thank you Don
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    Bombing Brum

    James st Lozells Jerry Landmine Don
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    Motorcycle Shops

    They were a top bike
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    Bombing Brum

    Lyn My Grandad Frank Preston got injured James St i hope this not a another urban myth i no one surviving in the family to ask
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    Bombing Brum

    Yes i did not want to mention on here that the poor women was decapitated but this was a kids tale so im thinking now its a Urban Myth
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    Bombing Brum

    My first house was no 33 Preston Rd the guy next door Dennis was a little boy during the war he lived at no 31 he found a body of a women who had been taking shelter in the entry to his house all the windows at front and rear of my house were wartime ersatz glass so even our road felt the...
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    Motorcycle Shops

    So True
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