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    Park Road Hockley

    Our house is the 4th one down on Ford Street which also has a yard backing onto Park Road
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    Park Road Hockley

    I wonder why it says Lodge Road though
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    Park Road Hockley

    You could eat inside the cafe so perhaps they were being posh and and saying dining rooms. I used to go most mornings to get a sausage sandwich for Peggy/Newsagents.
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    Park Road Hockley

    Park Road 1968
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    Park Road Hockley

    The fish and chip shop was a little further up past Peggys Newsagents Shop - which you can see the shop in the photo
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    Park Road Hockley

    This is another photo of the same place.
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    Park Road Hockley

    Corner of Park Road/Ford Street
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    I presume thats where the name came from for the Follett Osler School
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    Ford Street Hockley

    Here is Eric's version he painted for me. When we lived there the lamp post was in front of our house not over the road as shown on the original picture.
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    Ford Street Hockley

    No not me sorry
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    Ford Street Hockley

    I still keep in contact with Sheila. This is me and your mom dancing at Sheila's 21st
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    Ford Street Hockley

    Hi Mike, I was your mom's friend. You can see a lady on the doorstep then just down from her you can see a little shop which was No 10 Ford Street, your nans house was just up an entry at the side of No 11
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    Birmingham Town Hall

    The day the music died 3/2/1959
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    Bill Dargue

    I met Bill when we were on the same course 'Rewriting the History of Birmingham' I still have copies of his work from that time.
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    MARY ANN HILL BORN TIPTON 1876

    Try this site its really helpful for the black country ancestors. https://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/
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    Family Myth

    Have you got Vesta's birth certificate?
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    All Saints Church Winson Green

    All Saints School/Church would be classed as Hockley and not Winson Green
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    Charlotte Hobson aka Cynthia

    Im sorry to say that Cynthia who you may remember and often turned up to the meets, sadly passed away last weekend. RIP Cynthia.
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    Enid Goodwin Dance School Perry Barr

    It was certainly a different quick step style to what I had learned at Nineveh Road
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    Winters of 1947 and 1963

    Yes I think they would cope, probably moan about it but didnt we all
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