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i went to the oratory school, but went to camden street school for cookery lessons as we did not have the facilities in the oratory, all the girls enjoyed it as we had to walk there and back which took a while so some lessons were missed oh happy days regards anniekei

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i listened to les ross every morning on brmb when i was getting the kids ready for school, he kept us up to date with what was going on in brum. i loved his sense of humour. have a good retirement les x

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hi astonian you lucky so and so. i lived in st leonards on sea in east sussex for 6 years and i loved living by the sea myself and hubby travelled the whole south coast on our days off from work, we came back to brum 2004, and i am glad we did they say there is no place like home and that is...

hi all for the past three weeks i have been visiting selly oak hospital as my hubby is a patient there at the moment, i have had a wander round the grounds of the hospital which is due to close 2010 and chatted with the nurses and i am utterly dismayed to hear that these lovely buildings are...

hi astonian as soon as i have any info i will let you know, are you back living in birmingham now or still in exile speak soon best wishes anniekei

hi everyone on this thread summer hill rehab centre and hostel for homeless men over the age of 45 with alcohol dependency and drug abuse is run by midland heart. the building belongs to birmingham city council who leased it to the midland heart association for a nominal sum on the condition...

hi astonian i remember the nurses home now, it was opposite the roller rink if i remember correctly, this building is being refurbished or at least it was when i last past october 08, as for summer hill terrace it was for a while a drop in centre late 70's early 80's for alcoholics i am not...

hi all my dad used to buy kippers in the pub on a saturday night and come home cook and eat them, i hated the smell, it used to make me feel sick, but i love them now yummy regards anniekei

would you be refering to summerhill terrace, i always thought that used to be a nurses home at one point, it is now a hostel for homeless men over 45 who have a drink or mental health problems due to alcohol, it is a lovely old building, i remember the glass shelter, it is still there we used to...

Hi all i was browsing the www.workhouse.org.uk and reading about the workhouses, they were certainly hard times, however i came across a picture of children and ther carers, it stated it was a small childrens home in summerhill birmingham, does anyone have any information on this thanks annie:)

Re: st peters place..broad st Hi Ladywood In my time it was father griffiths and he was an ogre of a man he used to scare the life out of us kids, i now remember the ceiling with the stars, funny how you forget these things. my sister went to st peters school, but i went to nelson street...

i was born in the fifties and as a child my mother washed everything by hand, we had no microwave ovens, fridges, or any of the modern conviences of today, myself and my sister had all the childhood ailments measles, mumps etc and we survived, we had no central heating, just one coal fire in the...

the florin was on / or near the corner of camden street and icknield street and no longer exists, had a bad reputation was closed by the police and then demolished. regards annie

now otherhalf does that not start another thread, do you remember the tea back then no luxury teabags and if you did not have a tea strainer a mouth full of tea leaves, my mom used to buy brooke bond tea, how the memories flow annie