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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    They are on their way to you already.
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    Thank you too for your help in trying to find the family.
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    They were mostly birthday cards to Phyllis, photos of Rhyl, and places in Nelson BC Canada but unfortunately none of Birmingham itself.
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    Well I really liked them but I’m pretty sure she’ll LOVE them.
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    Thank you so much for your help. My postcards sent to Phyllis McGuire are on route to her great granddaughter today. All 21 of them are over a hundred years old and I’m so glad I can return them to the family.
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    Thank you and this site, for helping me. There is so much history in these postcards. I trust one day the real owner of them will be able to pass them on to the next generation. I hope that some day you will be able to find owners of your books. Sorry I’m so far away. I’d love to see them. I...
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    Sparkhill Commercial School

    We called Miss Hunt ‘the holy Martha’.
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    Sparkhill Commercial School

    There was a boys’ roof and another for the girls. I remember that the boys did Science while the girls had Domestic Science. Wish I’d have spoken up and asked if I could do Science but girls would never have dreamed of that in those days.
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    Sparkhill Commercial School

    The French teacher was Mr. Page.
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    Marle Hall - 1921 Census

    I have a postcard of Marle Hall at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham and on it is a halfpenny stamp, so this postcard must have been written before 1913 when I believe the stamps were increased to a penny. Yes, there is also a Marle Hall in Wales also, but maybe your great mother was in Marle Hall...
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    How exciting to have found you, thanks to Maxine. I’ve actually had the postcards since 2010 when I left Abbotsford. I wish you’d lived closer so that I could hand them to you myself. I’ll put them in the mail in the next few days. Don’t worry about the postage. I’ll look after that. To think, I...
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    O I’m so glad that Maxine contacted you. If you send me your address I’d be happy to send the postcards tto you,
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    Please tell me where to send your grandma’s postcards
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    How do I do that?
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    McGuire Phyllis of Birmingham & Canada

    I have her postcards. Where shall I send them?
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