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    Marsh & Baxters, Castle Bromwich

    hi dave will speak to you over the weekend edd
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    Marsh & Baxters, Castle Bromwich

    does anybody remember our kid, steve lowe, worked in butchery straight from school early seventies always on about the great bunch he worked with sadly steves no longer with us
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    Gravelly Hill - Slade Road / The Slade

    saj it looks like I was a year ahead of you david evans was the same year as me I left in 1967 people I remember roy cole, phil goode, alex bailey, kev Somerfield, billy Arnold (aka rambling sid rumpold and his nog), plus a few more. perhaps your brother will recall a few of these names edd
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    Gravelly Hill - Slade Road / The Slade

    hi sajid im sorry but I don't remember you, what year did you leave, where you in the same class, judging by your name I would assume you are of Asian extraction if so were you one of the cottage home lads ? any names you remember ? I still see roy cole (the drummer ) every week we are still...
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    Jack Bruce

    very sad to learn of jacks passing today recall seeing him a couple of times I think one was at mothers in Erdington a great musician RIP jack
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    A puppy & WW2

    read it a while ago thoroughly recommend it an uplifting story of man and his best friend
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    the last farewell print

    great job thanks mike. edd
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    the last farewell print

    many thanks all. it looks like my suspicions were correct about it being Lichfield rd , pretty much confirmed by nicks film (great find nick ). edd
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    the last farewell print

    that is the exact one mike, thank,s not sure how to put my print on eric, if you look in the distance it reminds me of the outline of ansells building a sight you took for granted being an aston kid edd
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    the last farewell print

    evening all. the wife has purchased a couple of prints today in a charity shop, one is the barton arms with a tram going past and it is signed davron 1983 no problem know where that is next one is called the last farewell birminghams last tramcar, showing a tram with the route no 2 and fleet no...
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    Parliament Street Aston

    the kate baker mentioned was my aunt, married a albert robothan but marriage broke up with a lot of secrets coming out( wink wink). kate was more known as a spiritual medium who gave readings to all and sundry and people travelled long distances to see her, used to spook me when she sat talking...
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    The sinking of R.M.S. Lancastria, St. Nazaire 17th June

    Hi the wifes Grandfather was killed on the lancastria, Andrew james Doherty forty years of age, he enlisted in the pioneer corps in derry northern Ireland where he lived, he left a very large family to be raised by his widow, he is listed on the memorial along with a lot of his co at Dunkirk, a...
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    Home for young females.Please help!!!!

    hi again the person I used was Siobhan clemons head of origins father Hudson society coleshill she was superb and the whole thing came to less than £300 by the way father hudsons is a catholic society but Siobhan will deal with all denominations ours was c of e, in that price Siobhan traced ...
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    Home for young females.Please help!!!!

    Hi fennslim I have gone through the same thing within the last eighteen months, at the age of 62 I found I had a brother who was adopted at birth, I had always thought I was a only child. you will not be allowed to access adoption records you have to use a intermediary, it is not as expensive...
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    Woodman Hockley

    thanks lynn just seemed right to keep a bit of history to the building. edd
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    Woodman Hockley

    Astoness I have the garage next door( white van outside) as far as we know its offices we had the planning office consult us about it,ive been their 30 odd years and have seen the decline in the woodman, at one time you couldn't get in there at lunchtime, people would be stood on the pavement...
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    what was the name of the pub on thr wryley birch estate in 1995

    it was the chase back of the wifes house when she lived on the ridgeway
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    Langford, William Albert et al

    Hello astonian if you are still interested I have tracked down Ronnie Langford spoke to him today and have his phone no and address please let me know.
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    Old Birmingham Schools - Changed Or Demolished

    st barnabus ladywood slade rd secondary modern erdington
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