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    Balsall Heath.

    hi liz yes it was balsall heath when i lived there then everyone started calling it highgate ...i think balsall heath is now the other side of belgrave road towards sherborne road and that way .its signposted so.. highgate is sort of conybere st and dymock st and so on. if you wanted to...
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    Balsall Heath.

    Hi its pronouced dimok street lol ..
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    Balsall Heath.

    hi christina .i lived in conybere street ...my sisters went to st albans school .i went to upper highgate girls school .i remember father harding big fat bloke with rosy cheeks .and father stock was young and quite handsome ,he used to ride a pushbike with a guitar slung on his back...happy days...
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    Hill Family In Bromsgrove Worcs

    polly pops and mike fisher many thanks for the lead .gonna be up that way in june so ill check it all out x
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    Hill Family In Bromsgrove Worcs

    Hey thanks dek.....im not very good at this stuff .a lesson learned .....thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Hill Family In Bromsgrove Worcs

    I DONT KNOW IF IM IN THE RIGHT PLACE BUT I AM LOOKING FOR COUSINS..WHO LIVED IN BROMSGROVE..THIER FATHER WAS ALBERT WILLIAM HILL (deceased) .HIS WIFE WAS JESSE .LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS .PERRYFIELD CRESCENT SIDEMOOR BROMSGROVE .WORCS...MY MOTHER IS THE SISTER OF ALBERT ..SHE IS THE ONLY SIBLING...
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    Old Birmingham Schools - Changed Or Demolished

    Upper highgate secondary modern girls school birmingham....
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    Did you meet your partner In Brum?

    I met my first husband at the brum beat cavern in summer row .he played guitar in a band there..my second partner i met at bham maternity hospital where we both worked ...i had our daughter in that hospital years later .
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    Aston Almshouses Aston Lane

    Does anyone remember the alms houses in ravenhurst street/ top of bradford street birmingham ..12.or even better a picture of it .i believe it is now a boys special school.
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    Midland Counties Dairy

    both my father and brother used to work at midland counties .many moons ago .leake was the surname ..
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    Birmingham Trams

    my dad used to stand on the back of a lorry and shovel salt and grit onto the icy roads during the night and still get up and go to work the next morning . couldnt see it happening today ....
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    Birmingham Trams

    My grandad used to drive the trams up pershore road ...to cotteridge ...
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    Traditional Songs we sang at school

    men of harlec . the windmill....morning has broken.
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    Balsall Heath.

    was highgate road was the continuation of belgrave road over the traffic lights and under the railway bridge....???
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    Where did you live

    HI ANNE I .NOTICED YOU LIVED IN THE BACK HOUSES BY BOURNBROOK .I HAD A FRIEND WHO LIVED BEHIND THE BANK OPPOSITE THE BROOK PUB .HER NAME WAS BARBARA KNIGHT ...DI YOU KNOW HER SHE WOULD BE IN HER 60s NOW...
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    Where did you live

    I lived in pershore road selly park .then sherborne rd balsall heath then conybere st .then emily street ..till i got married .then to northfield ..castle bromwich and weoley castle.... Then down to devon .where i am now living ...my dad said i should have been born a gypsy. Love him.xxx
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    Sunday School.

    I used to go to sunday school at hope chapel hick st highgate ......mr cross used to teach us. I can remember the lad jimmy sleet up front singing jacobs ladder love and of course we loved the tea and biscuits ......where was the tintack by st albans church.???#
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    St Albans Church Highgate

    CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND A MAP OF ST ALBANS CHURCH GROUNDS IN THE 1840s...PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
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    St Patricks C of E School Highgate Street.

    hi liz...i didnt know david buckley ..although i knew there was a younger child.i went to school with cicely his sister .small world isnt it. x
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    St Patricks C of E School Highgate Street.

    well i never . i used to hang about with cicely .....i knew all your family ...you say you are sedellas child....i knew them when they all lived in hick street up the avenue opposite the wellington pub on one corner and an off licence on the other .i think your uncle michael had a soldier...
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