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Sorry, I got the posts mixed.

John. who was poking his head round the side of the fence?

I missed your birthday again, sorry my old mate!!

John, you are being very modest here as many people do not know your history as I do as regards cycles and who you raced with. Have you still got your cycle site on the net? Dave

When I moved into a new house here in Olton, some 45 years ago, one of the first things the wife wanted was the garden laying out. For some reason the builders had sloped the garden up approx. nearly 3 ft and as it got near to the fence about 5 ft it sloped down to the bottom of the fencing. I...

Was that you with the mop of hair in the middle (almost) of the picture? Have you any of it left? We are going off topic here Phil. Dave

I cannot look at that as there is not enough info, Phil. Dave

Yes John, you remembered that. Dave

I was just looking at google earth to just see the amount of area from the back of the school which was open land when John and I went there in 1943, we have had a population explosion if you take all the area as a whole. Dave

You haven't something coming on have you Phil. Dave

Phil, it was the bit about Marcia, who is John |Crump's wife which got me. Dave

Lucky you can still travel, No false teeth for me, just lost four back ones which is not bad really

Phil, I did not quite get the meaning of post 123, At 84 you go to bed to get the body ready for the next days jobs to be done as I am knackered these days. Take yesterday, cutting a dead pear tree down and cutting it up to go in the bin, to day I have to get on the lathe and turn up some tubing...

Phil You said you were talking to someone on a forum yesterday, I guess it was not this one, there are so many around that this one loses out.

John, I have the same problem with her indoors, deaf as a post without her hearing aids, a good job for modern technology. You never said anything about that before, you do surprise me ,John. Hope you are keeping well , you should be with all that cycling. Coming back to school days, you were...

John, It's nice to know you are still around as you never send an email any more, I thought the cycling had got at you. Coming back to our life around Yardley and Sheldon, I have said things to you before and you only respond with one liners, it doesn't get you going. Our time at Church Rd...

Phil, if you try and trace some of the history around this area there are not many of the people on the forum who contribute, at the moment there are three of us. To really get a thread going it has to be popular with all alike. How many can put 84 years of that area on a thread, keep you...

The entrance near Duncroft rd was never used only the gate higher up at the end of the gym. There were no iron railings as they had been taken out for the war effort, only the brick pillars remained My time there was 1943-48 Dave

Hello Lurchphoic. I know all this area very very well from a child of 5 years of age. everything has changed, from green fields to housing estates. I started work in 1948 at the (Grave Yard) B.S.A and cycled to work every day down the same lanes as there were no duel carriage ways across the...

As you say over the old narrow bridge and the only way when I was a kid, you had to turn right into Gossey lane as it was a field in front of you. I don't know why B.S.A was called a graveyard, unless it was all the air vents that could be seen from above , because in certainly was not like...