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  1. frederick

    Graham Webb

    Graham, Well done, your name will now live on for ever and in the sports world you so enjoyed and still enjoy, well done.
  2. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    Can anyone that left this school in 1958 remember going on any school trips i remember the one to the playing fields and the Isle of Man which i really enjoyed, anyone with any memories of any other trips.
  3. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    bazm, Graham Webb and myself did the same thing with that old film, if i remember the smoke rearly stunk and made your eyes water, i only got to going there the once it was the first time for me on the high seas crossing from Liverpool.
  4. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    Daverock, Another look at the IOM photo, and one of some of the lads by the chalets.
  5. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    bazm, I wonder if i am the only one with that photo of the Isle of Man trip i would have thought we all had one, did you have one and have you still go it.
  6. frederick

    isle of man TT

    It's one of the only things nower days where there is no health & safety involved.
  7. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    Phil, Got it now on the left going towards Highgate rd.
  8. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    Phil, Where abouts on Ladypool rd was the annex, i can't place it.
  9. frederick

    TOMMY GODWIN - 1948 Olympic Medalist on the BBC

    Another peace of interesting footage of cycling hishtory well done Tommy Godwin.
  10. frederick

    Formans Road Sparkhill.

    Lovely photo, i wonder if they were aloud to smoke.
  11. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    I have forgoten the teachers name but i would have to go to a shop just wear Ladypool rd meets church rd i would go down those steps just past the park on Birchwood rd and it was to get his pipe tobacco he must have trusted me with his money. and a thing the kids can't do now health & safety is...
  12. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    Bob, If the letters in a word are all jumbled up out of order people still know what the word says, very strange but it is true.
  13. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    Hi Graham, So Topcat was in your class you had the school bully teaching you by the sound of it. And did you have a nice Christmas and did santer bring you what you wanted.
  14. frederick

    Dennis Road Secondary Modern Boys School

    topcat, Welcome to the forum, if you want to have a good chat you are welcome to do so, i don't recall your betting off the teacher it sounds like he was the school bully which years were you in the seniors i left the school in 1958.
  15. frederick

    Sparkhill park

    Graham and my self used to sail our boats on the pool and if i can remember right we could walk across a think seperating the pool into two to the island in the middle, and we have kicked a ball about in the park it mite have been with your gang Bob.
  16. frederick

    Sparkhill - Fulham Road

    ed smith, We now call it the hard way but it was just growing up to us then we didn't know any different.
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    Sparkhill - Fulham Road

    The map isn't to good can anyone make it look better so we can read the names of the roads.
  18. frederick

    Sparkhill - Fulham Road

    ed smith, I have attached a road map of the area if you look at the middle of the map you will see Wilton road and all the others that we enjoyed playing in and walking around.
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    Sparkhill - Fulham Road

    There is just a few yeards left of it at the top Ladypool rd end but the rest of it has gone it is a grassed area now.
  20. frederick

    Worthington "E"

    If i remember it was a strong beer in it's day at 4.1% it was my tipple all those years ago.
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