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    St Andrews School Ada Road School

    Moved to schools.
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    Bibbins family in Birmingham-18th & 19th Centuries

    Welcome to the forum. When submitting queries we ask for a Please or thank you for our researchers who give their time to the forum.
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    Glovers Road Chinese shop

    moved to Neighbours and Streets
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    Feltmaker and Hatter

    moved to occupations
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    Fish & Meat paste from the 50s and 60s

    moved to Food history
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    tower ball room

    My husband saw an article in one of the online newspapers that said the site will be used for much needed housing. but the local councillors want it to be a community centre.
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    Maybury/Mayberry/Maebury William

    My first mother in law Daisy Maybury was born in Farm street 1905, her father William born 1865, his father Jabez Silvanus Maybury b 1835 son of William Maybury b 1811
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    Davis family,13 Farm Street

    Moved to surnames.
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    OLDEST AND YOUNGEST BHF MEMBERS

    No, in some peoples eyes not a proper Brummie, but my Dad came here to be a police officer in 1947 and we followed in1949 and so for 73 yrs I have lived here , worked here ,married here,raised 3 sons here and never ever wanted to leave and live elsewhere so perhaps in others eyes I can be...
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    OLDEST AND YOUNGEST BHF MEMBERS

    Updating mine. Nearly 80 yrs young b. 1942 Staffs moorlands came to Birmingham age 7 so honorary Brummie Joined BFH almost 19 years ago May 2003.
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    Widdows Arms

    Welcome to the forum. Our late member Alan( Astonian .RIP.) who started this thread, must have grown up close to the pub in the 1940s.
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    HS2 progress 2020 and beyond

    It is heartbreaking to drive through there and the area around the NEC. It is a desolate desert landscape. We are told we have to save our planet and that deforestation is to blame for climate change, yet thousands of ancient trees have been sacrificed to make way for HS2. The eastern section...
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    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    Mike, as opposed to castles, monsters and rockets, dinosaurs cars and emergency vehiclesto name a few they have beautiful hotels and hairdressers.or like Sophia in post 284 a dolls house. (girly) :) AND in a family with both a boy and a girl they must never be mixed up :)
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    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    My granddaughter has just got interested in Lego, her brother Sonny can hardly get into his bedroom for boxes of the stuff. Their dad had to build them bigger Lego tables. Santa,( Grandma) got Daisy the Grand hotel, I love the girly Lego.
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    Fort Dunlop Death - Circa 1980

    As any information will possibly include living people could all replies to Brumseeker be via private massage.
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    Fishing

    I have loved reading this thread. My husbands family have always loved fishing, his grandfather won the BAA 'Big un' in 1934 and his 2 sons won in later years. I love the description of the rods and creels, took me back to sitting on the bank at Arley waiting for my husband to land a big...
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    Christine Mary Nash

    Have sent you PM.
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    MY FIRST/SECOND GRANDCHILD

    Richard, they both look so peaceful. That is certainly one to treasure. Alberta.
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    Christmas greetings 2021

    Happy Christmas to everyone especially Jim and Warren who keep the Forum ticking over and are so supportive of the Moderators. Happy Christmas to all the members who have been here for a while ,and to the new members , I hope you enjoy your first Christmas with us, and yes it always snows at...
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    Write it down

    I started this thread about writing family history down and I have always done this and use records and census entries from Ancestry and family search to help me, also collecting a lot of certificates I have looked at Ancestry trees related to mine and my husbands family and some of them are...
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