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  1. castalla

    Give us yer donny

    Apparently my parents told me when i was young i used to call a ice cream cone Num Num no idea why
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    My Nan's sayings

    I only hears the word Wagger for somebody who did not go to school,
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    Moor Street

    Great Photos Astones
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    Yardley Wood

    My Grandparents lived at 18 Pendeen rd
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    DISGUSTING FOOD

    Morturn Is that Belly draft with your Liver ¿ looks like it to me
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    74 and 75 bus routes

    I was a Driver on the 70 Oxhill road The Leverretts to City Centre in the 80´s
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    Doctors

    They had there Surgery in a house on the Coleshill Road then moved to present premises over the road from clock garage where the 3 generation grandson is a Doctor, and if i am correct they have a another surgery in Hazelhurst Road off the chester road, As you used Chitnis did you live close by...
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    Where to find out how a street got its name?

    Anybody know where Millington Road Hodge hill came from next to Oakdale Road Erminghton Creesent Chipperfield Road ¿
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    Farrs Butcher Shop

    Thanks Gerry, to tell you the truth its been nearly 50 years ago as a young 14 year old when i worked there and even with names i cant remember faces yes names let me down
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    St Wilfreds R C School

    I remember Mt Donkesley big tall man, also remember Mass in School Hall, before church was built, was a Altar Boy myself when Fr Whelan was the priest. There was a assistance lady called Mrs Taylor i think small lady lived by the New Shops
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    W Poulton Pianos and Organs Store

    Think this pic was off flight deck of Ark Royal R09 in 1978, on her last deployment
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    St Wilfreds R C School

    I know i have posted this before but a year ago and with new members thought i would re post in case anybody out there or who knows some of these lads and lasses
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    Online Electoral Rolls

    Sorry to everyone where i got the name Pidgeon from in Selby road i don´t know must of come from somewhere
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    A BRUMMIE'S BIRTHDAY

    Wish i had some of my family from way back, nearest i have is a old faded copy of my parents wedding 1940.s and a photo of my dad about 1944
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    Online Electoral Rolls

    Thanks for your information, jwp in the 1947 Electrol Roll John & Ada are down as living in 49 Selby Grove when you lived next door to them in Beauchamp road in this year ¿
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    Online Electoral Rolls

    Thank you for that, as i said the Pidgeon family were not related to my Dad he was all most certainly a Lodger there when he came to live in Birmingham and met my Mom. Thank you LLoyd for that i knew of the 3 addresses but not the exact years, they were there apart from Ashbrook road where i...
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    The Valley pub, Billesley

    My Grandad used to use said pub he lived in Pendeen Road, he probally knew your Grandad
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    Birmingham butchers retail.

    I had a Saturday / Holiday job at Pitt the Butchers Stechford road late 60´s early 70´s
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    Florance B Ward

    Thank you
  20. castalla

    Alma Cresent

    Anybody got any photos or memorys or know of people who lived in Alma Cresent off Dollman St Nechells/ Duddeston area, found out records 1939 show my aunt lived at number 19 Alma Cresent, Florance B Ward nee White with her husband Charles H. Ward also at this address is a June Ward b 1925 and a...
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