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    Beamish Road, Small Heath

    :D Correction: "Other nearby pubs were the Dolphin on the corner of Miles Street and Bordesley Park Road." Should read: Horse and Jockey rather than Dolphin.
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    Beamish Road, Small Heath

    Hi, I'm sure I can remember Dan Tremelling serving me as a kid in the outdoor of the Old Lodge rather than the Dolphin, although I could be wrong. Does anyone recall the chip shop next door to the Old Lodge. Terrible chips, I'm sure they used to just frighten them with the fat. Chips 3d and...
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    Bordesley Centre Bordesley College of Education

    Hello, The Holy Trinity School was in Trinity Terrace. That was on the left hand side of the Church as you look down from Camp Hill toward Sandy Lane. At the bottom of Trinity Terrace you used to be able to turn left in to Bedford Avenue. I went to that school for a short while in 1953.
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    Beamish Road, Small Heath

    Hi, Lived in Beamsih Road from the age of 3 months to the day I got married. Wonderful memories. The island - oblong - was exactly 1/10th of a mile. At the Coronation, they gave a prize to the kids who could run 100 times round it. Guess what....a girl won it. they gave her the prize at the...
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    Beamish

    When I were a lad…I know what your thinking, another Hovis advert. Well, read on anyway. I used to ask my dad; who were your favourite Blues players and he would mention Harry Hibbs, Joe Bradford and others from the 1930’s. But to me they were second-hand memories, little more than sepia...
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