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    Valor Heating Bromford Erdington

    Without our heater we used to wake up to ice on the inside of the windows
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    Valor Heating Bromford Erdington

    Served my mech engineering apprenticeship and Worked there for 4 years after the apprenticeship. I remember a paraffin heater being returned with a teapot lid in place of one of the internal components. We replaced it.
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    Damn, Honours you musta put the effort in.
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    Marsh Hill Girls Grammar Tech School

    Nice to see well written, joined up writing. Now live in the USA and that would be code to kids who left school over here in the last 5-10 years. I heard of one quite intelligent young lady on a management training scheme at Home Depot being let go ( fired ) because she could not read the...
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    Riggall ? wasn't that spelled Crippen.
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    I remember Fred Markwell was really pleased he managed to get the punishment (Canings) book added to the School's Archive
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    We call them faucets over here in the US of A. I remember it well. I also remember pulling the hose off a Bunsen, turning the gas on and blowing back down the pipe so Crippin's bunsen kept going out and his reaction never happened. I also remembe someone adding salt to his electrolysis water and...
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    How you doing Pete. I wonder if we could drink as much on our 65th as we did the week of our 18ths. Now living in Columbus Ohio burbs. Looking at places in Florida to retire to. How's Paula. My ears are still ringing from tge telling off she gave me that Saturday night when i got you home...
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    Steve Carter mate
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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    Went there from 66 thru 72. Was in the R stream. Steve Carter (The Class Redhead). Have been in touch with a few others, Malcolm Coghill, Pete Sammon from the M stream, John Bentley, Gary Dolphin,
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    Garretts Green College

    Went To Garretts Green on Day Release and Evening Classes from 72 thru 76 Got myself an ONC.
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    Valor Heating Bromford Erdington

    Served My Apprenticeship there and stayed another 5 years. Also contarcted for Servis In Darlaston, Parkinson Cowan and Serck Heat Transfer before I moving to Peterborough.
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    Park Lane...Aston

    I was born October 1955, 3 back of 14 Park Lane Aston. We moved to Potters Green Coventry in 1959/1960. I wasn't allowed out of our yard most of the time so I do not remember the Park lane view very well. However I believe we were behind the last (Next to the car park) building standing. The...
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