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    Slade Road Roughley, Sutton Coldfield

    You were lucky if you had a bath. On wash days when mother had finished my sister went in the old washhouse copper, then me and my brother. If we had misbehaved she would threaten to stoke the fire up under it !! We used to live in the row of council cottages between Canwell school and bassets...
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    Slade Road Roughley, Sutton Coldfield

    Just found this forum. There was an old chapel with a grave yard behind very close to the plough and harrow. I was one of the boy scouts that met there weekly. Muffins den was a small cottage opposite the orchard that has been mentioned, the owner chased us out on many occasions. Opposite the...
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