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    Marsh Hill Boys Grammar Tech School

    I was in the same class as Mark Audley (Harry) for my first 3 years at Marsh Hill, starting in 1973. A really nice guy. A few schoolmates and other friends started a cricket team in the early 80's and Harry would attend and even played a game or two if we were short of players. When that opening...
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    City Centre Photographs

    The crazy thing was that everyone wore them to school at the time, and managed to play football in them at lunchtime.
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    Give us yer donny

    We were in Alum Rock as kids and donny was used for hands, and for very young kids, 'don-dons' :)
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    Celebrities in passing

    I was walking through New Street shopping centre one morning in the early 80's, and Phil Oakey of the Human League walked past me in full make up, hair on one side and in a full length trenchcoat. They were playing at the Odeon that night. Not in passing, but I was in W.H.Smiths later in the...
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