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    Warstone Lane Cemetery

    If you look further up the page to post 579 - there is an explanation about P Graves - Public, mass graves used about 3 times many years apart for public burials. No headstones - against the wall overlooking the old mint.
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    Vaulted crypts or undercrofts in Birmingham

    St Chads has an under croft - been many years since I went on a tour on an open day - worth an enquiry
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    Public graves at Warstone Lane

    Almost ALL of the large Public Graves in Warstone Lane were used 2 and often 3 times, especially around the catacombs and Section P. Churchyards did it all the time, once an area is full and no longer used, the area is cleared of Headstones (put against walls, oe on paths), the area excavated...
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    Central Grammar, International School Tile Cross

    I started in 1966, Left in 71. Mr Ockleton was head (very tiny writing!), and Jim May was Deputy and still was when I left.
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    Icknield Street

    Don't think I ever noticed it as a kid - too busy shouting to hear the echo's God knows what my dad thought of us kids at the time!!
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    Icknield Street

    Every time Lyn! On our way up to Shakespeare Rd to see our Uncle Jim and on the way back again!
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    Icknield Street

    But a great echo, as you ran under it screaming!
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    St Pauls Lozells

    Where I was baptised. One of my elder brothers ran the Boys Brigade Company there in the late 1970's.
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    ERIC , cookie273 aged 95

    Final farewell to Eric today - Lovely Service, RAF Flag, Last post by Royal Warks Fusilier. With Frothblower & Astoness We shall never see his like again
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    ERIC , cookie273 aged 95

    All being well, will be there - Lovely man. Will be missed. R.I.P.
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    ERIC , cookie273 aged 95

    Very sorry to hear that - Great chap to chat to at the meet ups - and a gifted artist
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    Lynne Morton (nee Jones), later Robinson

    Unsure if she was still an active member, but she was back in 2011-12, as well as a Friend of Key Hill Cemetery. She helped me get back in touch with an Aunt, whose brother had become her step father. Only found out in time she has passed away aged only 65, and managed to get to her funeral...
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    Public graves at Warstone Lane

    Many of the Public Graves were reopened and reused - some 3 times! Often in the 1930@s and again in the 1950's. Many of the Public Graves contain several hundred people. Young infants , of course take up far less space than full adults If you use the JQRT site -...
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    Hingeston Street

    Seems to recall it was on the left as you went toward Lodge Road, almost the last shop?
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    Stella Street, Nechells

    Just found a relative of my wife at 28 Stella st. Mary Ann Hofton
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