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  1. jmadone

    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    The lad concerned was a few years older than me. One of his friends I recall was a lad named Plant who lived in Sheldon. I used to deliver papers to his house in Forest Hill Road.
  2. jmadone

    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    I was there between 1961 and 1966
  3. jmadone

    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    At this time of year my wife's thoughts have turned to Christmas cards and can we get them online due to the lockdown. I suggested we tried designing our own, not a difficult task these days on a computer. I then remembered that each year a school card was produced, printed and sold in the...
  4. jmadone

    Ansells Brewery

    Sorry but unfortunately I can't see this message. Is it posted to the forum?
  5. jmadone

    OLDEST AND YOUNGEST BHF MEMBERS

    1949 was definitely a vintage year.
  6. jmadone

    Childhood Memories

    Was it similar to this one? This is the type my Nan had at her prefab. in Yardley Wood.
  7. jmadone

    Outmoor Farm Sheldon

    This is the page from the Auction Catalogue when the farm was sold at auction in 1919
  8. jmadone

    See Birmingham by Post Card

    Sorry Bob but it's too small for me to see any detail. I've tried downloading and using the zoom but as the picture gets bigger the more blurred it becomes.
  9. jmadone

    MARRIAGE DETAILS PLEASE - WILLIAM HASELER

    The printed form can be seen on my amended post showing the details they were requried to give.
  10. jmadone

    MARRIAGE DETAILS PLEASE - WILLIAM HASELER

    Ancestry has the record of this marriage but only the bride, groom and witness names
  11. jmadone

    Final resting places of the famous in Birmingham

    Quick google search came up with this https://davenportalmshouses.org.uk/ Like you Lyn I too had never heard of this charity
  12. jmadone

    T J Skelton Medal Vyse Street

    Could the B.L. engraving stand for British Legion? I know that the Sheldon Ivy League branch had an active air rifle shooting section in the 1960s. Does anyone know of a British Legion club with the initials BCC?
  13. jmadone

    T J Skelton Medal Vyse Street

    Now that we've seen a picture of the original hallmark although blurred I would agree that it is Chester and not Newcastle which was first shown to us by Daniel on post#6
  14. jmadone

    Final resting places of the famous in Birmingham

    Me too utterly surprised! Also surprised that Inigo Jones is described as a prominent Parliamentarian. My first thought of him was as an Architect.
  15. jmadone

    Where is it, Birmingham #10

    I don't know about Aston Park but in the 1950s/60s I can recall an outdoor roller rink at Tamworth in the Castle Pleasure Gardens. Could this be the one in the picture perhaps....?
  16. jmadone

    Fifield Farm Bickenhill

    Unfortunately the farm is no longer there. It was sold and became the Birmingham Business Park. As far as the Barn dances were concerned I can confirm that several were held there. I remember my sister in law saying she was approached by some officers from Coleshill Police Station (The one on...
  17. jmadone

    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    I remember seeing them at the Silver Blades sometime in the sixties. One of the better "live" bands.
  18. jmadone

    Handsworth

    Came upon this postcard today offered for sale on Ebay
  19. jmadone

    What do you watch on tv nowadays ?

    Loved it when it was first shown when I was a lot younger but now watching now doesn't have the same sense of surrealism.
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