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  1. changinman1

    Ww1 service records help

    Hi....I looked at ancestory uk free trial but it wants card details and if you should forget to cancel then it takes the membership from your card.....so im stuffed...help.
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    Ww1 service records help

    thanks I will have a look !!
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    Ww1 service records help

    Hi I am trying to find out anything possible about my Grandads involvement in both the first and second world wars as I believe he was involved in both in some capacity . He was discharged on 24.10.1919 and as I said was involved also in the second ww and his name is Charles Henry Field born in...
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    Co-op High Street Birmingham

    Hi ,,,has anyone got any pics of the co-op in the High st City centre...I worked there early in the 80,s and it was a lovely old building....shame it had to go.....it had the old style lifts with a concertina inner door and the sliding solid doors......and a lift attendant....happy days..
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    Lucas employees

    Hi does anyone know my my nan from the 60,s / 70,s from Lucas gt king st ...Evelyn Pursall was her name or she may have been known by her middle name Gladys......does it ring any bells with anyone..... Regards Karl
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    Tile cross/ marston green / dorridge

    Hi has anyone got any old photos of tile cross / marston green or dorridge please or know where there are any on this site please. Thanks in advance
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    Pressburgers

    All I want to know is why and when they closed their doors.....they really knew their stuff....and treated you well....last one I had was about 1985...mohair...silver grey...3 button jacket double vented....drainpipes with stepped bottoms.....boy did I think I looked the business...
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    i used to go the golden eagle to see bands in the early 80,s...mod bands punk bands ....u name it...
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Hi ...ye I remember Bonkers...it was by Alpha tower ...well underneath it.....peppermint place...faces....millionaires.....loads of mirrors in there...I always fared well in millionaires....never left alone always pulled that was late 80s I used to go....do u remember the club up the side of the...
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    PRESSBURGERS TAILERS BRISTOL ST

    ok let me enlighten you......the second mod scene started in the late seventies spearheaded by The Jam and it has evolved ever since...the mod scene is masssssssive....just look at Paul Weller he is our icon ....god ..call him what u will ...his roots and most of ours sit with The Small Faces...
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    PRESSBURGERS TAILERS BRISTOL ST

    Pressburgers Hi...back in the 1980,s there was a jewish tailor that I and a lot of the mod community used to use up on Bristol Street called Pressburgers where I had some most fantastic mohair suits made . After about 1986 I never used them again and they disappeared......For me they were the...
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    Pressburgers

    Hi Jean.....ye I know about those tailors bit before my time still would be interested to know what you have got...but I particularly wanted info on Mr Pressburger.... thanks for the kind resonse....x
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    Pressburgers

    Hi...back in the 1980,s there was a jewish tailor that I and a lot of the mod community used to use up on Bristol Street called Pressburgers where I had some most fantastic mohair suits made . After about 1986 I never used them again and they disappeared......For me they were the best tailors...
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    Ellen Ray

    well thats great info .....I didnt know that .....i think her moms age is wrong though....24 ....meaning she would have been 8 when she gave birth to Ellen......it was prob 42 not 24... chhers for getting me this ....ill print it all off. x
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    Ray Family

    excellente..what i would really like is to be able to trace her siblings to this day and the siblings of her husbnad (my gt grandad.....) and obvioulsy her record of birth .......this is all new to me so I am probably talking rubbish...
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    Ray Family

    spot on....charles is my grandad.....definite.....aaahhhh superb.....urmond st......mmmm excellent ...thanks for that..
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    Ellen Ray

    HELLO POP PICKERS....i need some info on ELLEN RAY died 1931 my gt gran....Ray is her maiden name as she married my gt grandad george william field....thanks
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    Ray Family

    Hello folks ....I am looking for any information possible on my gt gran who died in 1931 her name is Ellen Ray....who married my gt grandad George william Field who also died in 1931 ....dont know where she was born ....her fathers name is william ray and her mother Caroline Ray.
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    Tile Cross Infants & Junior School Shiretone School

    ye it is mostly pictures of the children of tile cross rather than the actual school buildings in any detail...
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    Tile Cross Infants & Junior School Shiretone School

    Tile cross J&i ....funnily enough was on Tile Cross road......and is now an industrial estate......aaah such nice memories I have of it...
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