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  1. maz_beth

    Motor bike and side car.

    you don't see sidecars now, do you? my dad didn't have a sidecar [although I vaguely remember maybe an old broken one in the back yard] he used to put us 3 kids in a wodoen box attached to the side of the motorbike, with blankets and cushions in, and mom on pillion... I remember us going to...
  2. maz_beth

    High Street Erdington

    yes, I worked there from '76-'77 lived in a flat over the shop corner of Coton Lane and the High. St. from about '79-'81
  3. maz_beth

    My Mom [Aston Girl] and Dad and us kids - pics in B'ham 1940's onwards.

    in the back yard of the house in Parliament St. Aston. I think mom was about 14 then [so about 1944] mom when she was 18, so about 1948 [dark-haired one with dark jacket], her friend, the blonde-haired lady, used to live off Rocky Lane [won't give her name, out of privacy - they are still...
  4. maz_beth

    Birmingham Odeon

    saw Cliff Richard there in 1975...me and a few other 16 year old friends - we had just left school - 2 of the crowd were mad on Cliff and dragged us down the back alley to try to catch him at stage door [?]
  5. maz_beth

    Radio: Crystal Sets & CB Radio

    my dad [who passed on in '97] used to do CB from our home in Perry Common..it could have been the late 70's? and the 80's. I don't remember his handle, but his real name was John Orr [he was Irish], and he used to meet sometimes with other CB users at the Beggars' Bush pub [?] on Chester Road.
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