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    Catholic schools in Brum, 1960s/1970s

    This photograph is from the playground of St. Peters school, showing a side entrance to the church.
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    Snow Hill Station

    I've seen a program where a man named as Eddie Fewtrell, was the center of the dispute,
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    Childhood Memories

    No accounting for taste
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    Childhood Memories

    My sister and me, used to eat ovaltine in its dry state.
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    Monument Road

    I remember being taken to the Monument Road Child Welfare Centre when I was four, to be weighed,measured for height and given orange juice and castor oil.
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    Snow Hill Station

    I think there was a real shoot out between a Birmingham criminal gang and the Kray brothers gang from London around Snow Hill.
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    Birmingham School of Art/Birmingham School of Art & Design

    Two students from my year went on to the Royal Acadamy.
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    Birmingham School of Art/Birmingham School of Art & Design

    The students to the Graphic Design and Illustration and Printmaling course, [which was over two years], came mostly from Bourneville and Sutton Coldlfield Art Schools, and a few from the Coventry area.
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    Birmingham School of Art/Birmingham School of Art & Design

    I think Birmingham Art School taught drawing painting and sculpture in the early sixties. It's principle was Christopher Hawes. The Photography department was located at Great Barr, and the Graphic Design and Illustration and Printmaking Departments were located over a car showroom on the corner...
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    Birmingham School of Art/Birmingham School of Art & Design

    I was a student at Birmingham School of Art and Crafts in the 1960's. I studied graphic design, and we had classes in painting and life drawing at Margaret Street.
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    Science Museum Newhall Street

    This is a drawing I did at Hendon of a beaufighter
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