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    who likes 1920 and 30s 40s music

    https://www.1959bhsmustangs.com/videojukebox_1940s.htm
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    Did you meet your partner In Brum?

    I met my wife who was a window dresser at Henry's Union Street whilst I was working part time from my job in the Fire Service. We will have been married 60 years in November.
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    Children of Working Mothers WW2

    Somewhere in Hockley.
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    Air Raid Shelter Entertainment

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/34/656/large_000000.jpg The photograph shows the audience, made up largely of children, in a large purpose-built shelter. They are seated around a pillar which is marked "Section 1A" and decorated with a Union Jack and bunting. Neither the projector nor the screen...
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    Fifield Farm Bickenhill

    I was Stationed at Sheldon Fire Station when we turned out to Fifield Farm smoke was issuing from the Farm House with a woman trapped on the first floor she was rescued by ladder and the fire extinguished. I think the crew was invited back for a complimentary drink of home brew.
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    Bomb Damaged Bull Ring

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/39/847/large_000000.jpg Men and women shop amongst the market stalls that line the centre of the road in Birmingham's bomb-damaged Bull Ring Market Square. Rubble and the exterior walls, which can be seen in the background of the photograph, are all that remains of...
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    Children of Working Mothers WW2

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/45/850/large_000000.jpg A nurse checks on children as they settle down for their afternoon nap on cots in the garden of the Carnegie Institute of Child Welfare in Birmingham. Women war workers leave their children at the day nursery attached to the Institute whilst...
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    Children of Working Mothers WW2

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/42/401/large_000000.jpg?_ga=2.15349110.1953186953.1601395786-841614060.1590864199 Children at the Flint Green Road Nursery enjoy a hearty breakfast of porridge and milk. Toddlers eat at the side table whilst smaller babies eat at the top table, assisted by nurses...
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    Birmingham During Wartime

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/39/846/large_000000.jpg Men and women walk past 'Ye Olde Nelson' public house on the corner of Temple Row
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    Castle Bromwich Spitfire Factory

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/39/839/large_000000.jpg Firefighters hose water through the glassless windows of the shell of a building on Small Brook Street, which was destroyed by fire after an air raid, c 1940. A pile of rubble and debris is clearly visible in the foreground. By kind...
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    Castle Bromwich Spitfire Factory

    https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/39/584/large_000000.jpg The Prime Minister Winston Churchill observes a female riveter working on a Supermarine Spitfire at the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham, England, on 28 September 1941. By kind permission of IWM No copyright infringement is intended.
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    Henrys & Oasis store

    HI Acer, Do you remember the Firemen who worked part time and a window Dresser named Maureen Broadhurst who worked at Henry's 1960 ish.
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    Calthorpe Park

    Calthorp Park site of a large ARP exercise attended by the King and Queen.
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    Birmingham Fire Stations

    Handsworth AFS on disbandment
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    National Service

    Spider Huts Pirbright
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    National Service

    The finished product
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    National Service

    17 weeks at Caterham and 12 weeks at Pirbright before being posted to a Battalion. The dreaded RSM Brittain on the right.
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    National Service

    Square Bashing
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    National Service

    Getting your kit up to scratch
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    National Service

    Getting kitted out after forming a squad.
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