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Don't recall the day Chris,but I know where I was,in our house in Aston,should have been evacuated the day before but didn't go.So I must presume my parents were having their usual Sunday morning row,and I was in the middle of it.:rolleyes:. My cousin, like you,remembers it she was celebrating...

So very sorry for your sad loss Lyn. R.I.P.steve... Ray.

There are more...the reason I still have them...is because I didn't go.

Lyn, These had gone from the first thread,"evacuation papers",so I am posting them again,for the history buffs,new members and those of us who may have short term memory loss.

Lyn, I still have all the paperwork,to do with evacuation,they have been posted on the forum,on a thread called...Evacuation Papers...I think.I have tried to put them in my photo's.but it comes up "wrong file".

Lyn, That's an evacuation party,they have their little labels on...bless em. [SIZE=4][/SIZ

Kevan, You have two I.M.s...

Paul, Sometimes refered to as Mess Pot.No change there then.:rolleyes:

Having been to a wedding at the Weoley Castle working mans club last week,I was suprised to find that the cinema had gone also the "Cali",very sad:(...wont they leave us nothing?.:rolleyes:

Kathryn, Here is a link to the Warwicks and where they served,it might help. Also a visit to St.Johns house,warwick,might be helpful. I have put a pic in my photo's,taken in Basra,Iraq in 1917...the man seated was in the Warwicks the one standing seems to have the badge of The...

Well,the Swanpool and Holborn hill are still there.Do you remember the little shop up Holborn hill.I have a photo of it,from the 1930s.

Linda,This a link to Weedon Barracks,they do have some records there,might be worth a look.:) https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/w/weedon/index.shtml

Linda, Weedon Barracks in Northamptonshire,has a canal running through it with a watergate each end of the barracks,with links to the Birmingham and Oxford canals.It is a good guess your,grandad went there with supplies,the cavalry were there during the first world war.I took some...

Very nice sentiment Jim :).

When going there as a lad,we used to have to change buses at the boundry,in West Brom. My granny was born in Dudley,and she told me she used to play in the caves there when she was a girl. The zoo opened in 1934,I think.

Great stuff John a real soldier of fortune...what an adventurer:). The French soldier of fortune,is sure to be The French Foriegn Leigon a favourite for runaways,5 years service earned you,French citizenship. The uniform on the photo.looks like the Grenadier Guards...evenly spaced buttons and...

Carolyn, We did do some of the journey by charabang,they were waiting for us in Bristol.:) My first proper view of the sea,was travelling down to Plymouth,along the coast in devon. I was sharing the carriage with an old sea dog,I was so excited like a little boy,(at the time I was a...

Carolyn, When our school U.T.S.Aston went on it's one and only school trip,it was, has you said,saved for over about 18 months,and we all had a little card,to pay our instalments. It turned out to be quite an event,I have put a description of the trip on post No.438 on page 30 of...

Re: Harriet Llewellyn Suzanne, "Full age" was 21,but they often told porkys ( well mine did ):rolleyes:,also a widow at 17/18 is not un heard of,I have a gt.gt.gran who was a widow with 3 children at 21,and another who married two different blokes, in the same church,and each...

To have my ashes fired into the sky,on a rocket...and go out with a bang...:)