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  1. evergreen

    Help needed with cert please

    We sure have got to find them, it's opened up a whole new world for me, you are a star Sis :):)
  2. evergreen

    Help needed with cert please

    This is really interesting, I have had a good look at it. Heather
  3. evergreen

    Brummie Ghosts

    When I was at school, many moons ago. We were told that the Gibbet was at the top of Alexandra Road, where the Huntingtree pub, now the Button Factory is. It scared the daylights out of me as I had to walk past it every day.
  4. evergreen

    Online site: Local History sites

    Thank you so much Svrman for adding this link. I have just spent a very happy half hour looking at the Peak District, where some years ago I went on a team building exercise. Which took us through Litton Mill, Millers Dale and finally throwing ourselves over the disused railway viaduct on the...
  5. evergreen

    Monday BBC1 @ 7.30pm

    Thanks Charlie, I missed it in the t.v listings, will certainly have a look
  6. evergreen

    When the going get tough..the tough get goin

    Great photo's girls. The Americans have got cowboys, indians & cowgirls. We got the Cow Club. Round them up and moooove them out. Rock on Girls ;);)
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    How to find out if Richard Baker did use stage name of Dick Malone

    Hi Polly. In todays words its a suitcase. My dad used to call my handbag that as there was so much stuff in it.
  8. evergreen

    The sayings of our teachers - Can you remember any?

    Although I really enjoyed school, I sort of went off teachers, once when I was 6 and they told me santa didn't exist and again at 14 when they said my maths was lousy. I left school and worked as a book keeper !!
  9. evergreen

    Paratrooper

    That is fab
  10. evergreen

    St Georges Day Meet, Stags Head

    I had a great time, really enjoyed it
  11. evergreen

    First Record Bought?

    Mine was Ebony Eyes by the Everley Brothers and my best L.P's were Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and Otis Blue by Otis Redding
  12. evergreen

    Saint Georges Day

    But Alf we may have choccie in our handbags, so its not all doom & gloom that we are coming.
  13. evergreen

    Saint Georges Day

    Glad the choccie worked xx
  14. evergreen

    Saint Georges Day

    Hi Frothy, can you add me to the list, with a bit of pleading and arm twisting on my part, Maggie & Tom will give me a lift. Heather
  15. evergreen

    S. U. Carburettors Wood lane

    I took a Marina to S. U. Carbs years ago. They tuned it and it still didn't improve the m.pg. So a week later I sold it, problem sorted for me
  16. evergreen

    Brides through the years.

    What lovely photos Bernard. My dress was a copy of one in Lewis' store. Cost £11. the bridesmaids dresses and shoes were a nice emerald green, trouble was, everytime they moved, the dye came out of their shoes and there was emerald green snow. It would be great if we could have some more...
  17. evergreen

    Brides through the years.

    Hi, there is a story to Mom's Dress. When she worked for Birmingham City Council in the war, the dress was owned by a girl called Olive Carpenter (I think that was her name) who won the Miss Great Britain competition in that dress. Mom needed a wedding dress and the girl sold it to Mom for...
  18. evergreen

    Halesowen Grammar 1959

    Hi again Richard, Have put 1 of Mom & Dad and a couple of mine on life experiences. Heather
  19. evergreen

    Brides through the years.

    A couple of mine March 1970 at St. Margarets of Antioch, Halesowen. Mom & Dad December 1944 Holy Trinity Smethwick
  20. evergreen

    Halesowen Grammar 1959

    Hi Richard, I have had a good look at the photo's, they are brilliant, the styles of dresses in the 60's and 70's were so different to the ones our parents had. I will try to put my photo and Mom & Dads on the link you sent, if i can get this puter to behave nicely. Thanks so much for...
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