Recent content by Keith Bracey

I went to George Dixon Grammar School for Boys 1969 to 1976 and was in the Danes (blue)House. I also played rugby for Dixonians Rugby Club from 1975 when I was a Colt until I ruptured my patella tendon playing soccer ⚽️ in 2004 (funny never had any serious injuries playing rugby )so nearly 30...

No my dad was named Les or Leslie Bracey and he grew up in the back to backs of Little Shadwell St in the Gun Quarter before being rehoused in Paganel Road in Weoley Castle. He passed away in 1989 having been born in 1922. Keith Bracey

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Thank you for posting our Chance Heritage Trust Bicentenary event celebration film on the Birmingham History Forum website. If anyone wants to find out more about what the Chance Heritage Trust intends to do at our 9 acre site in Spon Lane Smethwick please come along to the Gunmakers Arms Bath...

On Saturday 29th October 2022 #ChanceHeritageTrust are holding a celebration for the Bicentenary of what was once the largest glassworks in the world the Chance Glassworks which employed over 3500.men and women from #GlobalSmethwick.The party is to be held at West Smethwick Park on Saturday...

Brylcreem was a Birmingham made product which has gone out of fashion. Me Dad Les Bracey used copious amounts of it in the 1950's and 60's along with another men's hair product Brilliantine. I suppose the modern day equivalent is hair wax or fixer. What do other Brummie blokes on here think? Do...

I knew Mr Jessop the Head of Sport at King Edward VI Aston as he was a top top Rugby player with my club Dixonians RFC when they played out at Wassell Grove in Hagley during the 1950's and early 1960's. Harold Jessop was in the successful Dixonians Sevens teams of the 1950's which won the North...

My mate Gareth Lane from the Welsh/ Brummie /Black Country branch of the Lane family has done his DNA and came up with a Robert Plant as an antecedent with a management company handling any responses to people linked by the same DNA.....We wondered if it's the Led Zeppelin Robert Plant????

I have a Birmingham friend now exiled to Hoarwithy Herefordshire whose name is Gareth William Lane and his Dad from Bermuda via South Wales was Gregory Lane....If The Lanes were seafarers and one was born in Gibraltar might they have also gone to Bermuda ???? Just saying....I can put you in...

I think Aston Hall reopens on 7th July 2021.....???