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    Smethwick

    Just wondering who your friend was in the sweet shop in Waterloo Street? Was this the newspaper shop. Proprietors names Barnes?
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    Smethwick

    Thank you Lyn. Maybe someone else may remember too. It would be nice to know if anyone remembers our family from St. Stephens avenue ( off Halfords Lane). We were the Hall family. I was born in the front room in 1945 and moved out in 1965 when I married. My older sister is Joan and older...
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    Smethwick

    Hi. I know this is a very old post. I just joined. I live in Canada now, but I was born on the Albion estate which backed on to the West Bromwich Albion grounds. Every Saturday my brother and I would come to the Beacon on his motorbike and sidecar. We would first go in Jessons shop for a bar of...
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    Smethwick

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    Albion Estate

    Did anyone live on the Albion Estate in the forties, fifties and sixties. I.e Albion Road,Lones Road and like me St Stephens Avenue. I remember some neighbours. Wood. Slark. Smith. Perry. Green. Parkes. Tinsely. Walker. Horton. Bates. Aldridge. Collins. Staine. Sadler. May bury. Our family...
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