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  1. castalla

    Birmingham 1969-73

    Shoot football comic
  2. castalla

    Fisher & Ludlows factory

    Sorry can´t hel`p you with names, only to say the man sat behind the first and second mad in white jackets on right front row, i think he lived in the chipperfield rd, shwsdale rd dregon rd area and MAY of used the British Legion when my dad worked on the door wekends, who also worked at F&L...
  3. castalla

    The Cold War

    There are a number of miltatry sites campaning for a Medal for forces personnel who served in the years of the Cold War,Yes as a 15 year old(royal navy) in 1972 we never new or told we may end up in a conflct. We may of been naive, but for most it was a job and a way out of school. Did we know...
  4. castalla

    Where did you live

    Born Sorrento Hospital 1957, livedAshbrook road for my first 6 months until mydad Got job at Pressed Steel Fisher Castle BROM LIVED IN CAS BROM mILLINGHTON rOAD
  5. castalla

    Pendeen Road Yardley Wood - Highbury road Kinga Heath

    Looking for any photos memorys , storys. people from 1926 to about 1978 of 18 Pendeen road road Yardley Wood where my Grandparents / Mother lived Breakwell family Denis Grandad worked at petroñl station by Valley pub & Mosley road swimming baths & Cadburyds, also i am led to beleive was...
  6. castalla

    Alum Rock Road Shops

    thanks Macca seen i now on Ancestry
  7. castalla

    Alum Rock Road Shops

    O thanks very much Macca thats a great help, can i ask where this online electoral web site is please, i went to b.ham libary last year and had a look at electroal roles but was looking for somebody else in my family, you know what it´s like you could spend hours on these things. Yet again thank...
  8. castalla

    Alum Rock Road Shops

    Thanks Macca, as you know i never knew if Uncle Tim was married, next time i am in Birmingham (live abroad) i want to visit the Libary and look through Electroial regisatr to see who he lived with, and hope it shows his wife and children, but thanks for that must look on Google earth again and...
  9. castalla

    Alum Rock Road Shops

    If i remember Southhalls was just down the road a bit on the left going in to town, there were houses on Alum rock road facing the pub and behind these hoses were a Army cadet barracks if i remember rightly
  10. castalla

    Alum Rock Road Shops

    Sorry that this has nothing to do with shops, however i was looking at Google earth today and my uncle (Tim Flynn) lived facing the Brookhill pub, can i confirm these houses have been Knocked down ¿ as i can not see the houses and if so when did they knock them down
  11. castalla

    Sweets

    Remember going with my Greataunt who worked at Cadburys, where you went in to a little office just inside the main gate on the left i remember and we got bags of rejected choch´s in brown bags. On anther note did a stall in the old indoor market sell broken biscuites and a stal that sold...
  12. castalla

    Unidentifided person

    No i´m afraid i don´t, i am only going by his WW1 Records saying he served in both Army Units, i was under the understanding that the Cycle Reg was retired in about 1916 ? not that i have found out much about the unit or where they served. Of couse poc could of been taken anywhere in the U.K...
  13. castalla

    Unidentifided person

    I have this pic of my Grandfather Denis Breakwell of Kings Heath, he served in WW1 Cycle regiment and West Riding Reg. This photo shows Denis standing and unknown friend sat, anybody recognize him sorry not very clear
  14. castalla

    The brookhill , alum rock

    Thats right he passed away in 1989, if you can beleive that, time flys, never knew if he was married or had children, i always remember this time of the year as he would stick his xmas decorations up at the begining of November, but i only seen him once maybe twice a year and we only lived in...
  15. castalla

    Marsh & Baxters, Castle Bromwich

    I know i have asked this question before but doe´s anybody remember my uncle, Tim or timothy or nickname pierce Flynn, O´flynn (don´t know what he may of been called ) lived in Alum Rock and came from Cork Ireland wore a Trillby hat some times and possibly a red Carnation worked there in the...
  16. castalla

    Hodge Hill Common

    Spent many many years playing on the common and house still there, great photos where do you people get them from ??
  17. castalla

    The brookhill , alum rock

    My late uncle Tim Flynn irish man who wore a trillby hat and wore a red Carnation who lived across the road was a regular at this Pub back in the 60´s if not before
  18. castalla

    Police Service Records

    Sorry forgotten to say I live abroad so no oth er way
  19. castalla

    Police Service Records

    . I am in the same boat looking for my great uncle George Finch Dudley then Coventry about 1940- 1960's
  20. castalla

    Kings Heath

    Thank you for that, i have done a lot of Geneaolgy, on the Finch´s, but so far not come across a Pat, however there may well of been a relative some where down the line.Why they don´t publish census less then 100 years is beyond me espically when you can get Electrol Rolls. I have been doing my...
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