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    Byng Kenrick Girls' Grammar School

    Are you the Kim Higgs who was in my year I'm Elaine Sheldon?
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    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    I'm nearly 70 and still a bab!
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    Longmeadow Girls School Shard End

    My sister Sheila Sheldon went there around those dates if her name means anything to you.
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    Byng Kenrick Girl's Grammar 1967-72

    I went to BK in the years in above title. Names I recall are Medina Potter, Janet Hogg, Linda Gillespie, Sally Grainger to name a few. Happy memories if anyone out there attended at same time. I was Elaine Sheldon then.
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    School Dinners

    I guess it was chcocolate concrete rather than crunch. Think the pink custard was actually blancmange but loved it all the same.
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    School Dinners

    I recall having lots of milk puddings made with tapioca, macaroni and rice at home. I suppose it was affordable and filled us up.
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    School Dinners

    Does anyone else recall chocolate crunch and pink custard. I can still taste it now.
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    Yes no mobile phones, we never had a house phone for a long time and I spent half my courting years at the phone box by the Heathway pub in Shard End. Happy days!
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    Tavern in the Town and The Mulberry Bush Pub Bombings

    I was at Digbeth bus station with my boyfriend (later my husband) on the fateful night. We both commented on how eerily quiet it was. Not sure if the bombs had already gone off or what. I got the 55 bus back home to Bucklands End and my hubby got the Midland Red back to Solihull. When I got...
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    Tom Sheldon, otherwise Tom the "Blind Man"

    Tom Sheldon. Thank you for helping me find my way around.
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    Tom Sheldon, otherwise Tom the "Blind Man"

    I am new to this so apologies if its in the wrong place completely. I lived in Bucklands End from 1956 and my much loved dad was "Tom the Blind Man". He lost his sight before I was born and I wondered if there anyone out there who recalls him at all? The houses we lived in were all knocked...
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    Sweeneys , tv rentals

    So sad - poor families.
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    Sweeneys , tv rentals

    I worked for Sweeney Radio in the 1970's. My first job from school working in the office as an office junior.
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    Sheldon Family

    Sorry this went to my spam folder. My nan was Helloise and lived in Aston, not far from the Aston Villa football ground. I was only young when she died. Thomas G Sheldon and Violet Mowbray my mom and dad. Just trying to get my head around it all.
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    Sheldon Family

    I was a Sheldon. Dad was Thomas Granville and mom Violet Sheldon. Lived in Bucklands End
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