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    Flint Green Road

    I know it was soon after D Day., when everybody in 44 celebrated by burning an effigy of Hitler and I had my first eclair!
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    Flint Green Road

    Thank you. Really appreciate this
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    Flint Green Road

    Thank you. Really appreciate that
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    Flint Green Road

    That is interesting. I am going to contact an old school friend who might be able to contribute to this My parents were there near the end of the war , probably 1943 -1945. We moved away after the war. sometime 1945.
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    Flint Green Road

    That is interesting. I am going to contact an old school friend who might be able to contribute to this. She lives in Australia, so it will take rime!
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    Flint Green Road

    Thanks
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    Flint Green Road

    Thanks
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    Flint Green Road

    Well thank you I appreciate your research. I guess at the moment I will have to leave it at that. but maybe someone else will come up with something, perhaps from their own family. I guess it was kept very hush hush. somewhere I may have a photo of that time, but not sure where, but when I find...
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    Flint Green Road

    Oh that is interesting, I don't expect they would have mentioned individual soldiers, but surely that shows something military was going on? Thank you for all these contributions
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    Flint Green Road

    We lived there as a family but it was no doubt a barracks. I visited a few years ago, a very large house with garden. His name was PCB Stringer, he certainly could not afforded to own such a large house.
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    Flint Green Road

    Have just seen in a note made by a family member that Father re-joined the Army in the Warwickshire Regiment at the Army barracks ie. 44 Flint Green Road. He had previously been in the WW1.
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    Flint Green Road

    Thank you I remember tanks in the front garden, the soldiers doing target practice, the officers' mess and my father dealing with army equipment and the various soldiers, officers coming and going.
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    Birmingham 1969-73

    Interesting, thank you.
  14. S

    Varna Road

    Thank you very much. Does anybody have earlier photos?
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