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Recent content by Sally Parlett

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    Children's games - late 19th century

    I'll ask my Mother-in-law who grew up in B'ham and is now aged 97. She says hop scotch, whip and top, tag, hide & seek, eye spy, made dolls houses out of cardboard and tops off things.
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    Wylde Green

    My grandmother Agnes Parlett ran a shop on Green Lanes Sutton Coldfield - this is a photo of the inside. This was the outside. The house is still there. The shop rebuilt as a garage now with extension above. The house is opposite Wylde Green Primary school. Anyone remember it and my gran?
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    My Nan's sayings

    What about -'she's a bobbie dazzler' and 'the bees knees' and 'shut your gob' and 'quit chobblin your food'
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    Josiah Mason's Orphanage

    Both my parents Betty Hadley and Raymond Parlett went to Sir Josiah Mason's school in the 1930's and 40's
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    Spaghetti Junction

    My Aunt & Uncle Chance used to run a shop/post office right under where the built Spaghetti Junction in 1954.
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    Lucas Parties & Pantomimes

    My Dad worked in various Lucas sites for his entire working career. Sadly he has passed now, but I and my 3 siblings all loved the Great King Street Christmas parties. Going through the glass display cases with the tableau's of Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, sitting on the steps watching the...
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