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  1. Ray Griffiths

    SALFORD BRIDGE AREA NEW PHOTOS

    Salford Bridge Area 1-10 Sept 1967
  2. Ray Griffiths

    Windows 10

    My daughter and myself have found the same, a lot of our files have been have been moved and saved in the wrong ones. The worst has been pictures I almost 3000 pictures in different files and this new windows has decided to move my subfolders to totally wrong ones.
  3. Ray Griffiths

    Market Hall 1835 - 1963

    Surprised nobody mentioned the Escapologist but the carrier lady, he was filthy chained himself up somebody would put a dirty sack over him And wella he got out.
  4. Ray Griffiths

    Lichfield Road Aston

    Hi Lyn Have done a little bit of cleaning for you hope its OK Ray
  5. Ray Griffiths

    Saturday at Villa Park

    Another art picture of my daughters
  6. Ray Griffiths

    Saturday at Villa Park

    More of my daughters art work
  7. Ray Griffiths

    Birmingham buses

    This is the pages from this excellent book Complied Archie Mayou, terry barker & John Stanford. This book was worth ever penny
  8. Ray Griffiths

    Birmingham buses

    I think it was called COBALT blue during the war years some was paint battleship grey
  9. Ray Griffiths

    Aston Manor pubs 1901

    Another one of my daughters art work
  10. Ray Griffiths

    Aston, Lozells & Witton Photos Reposted thanks to Ray Griffiths...

    Hi Folks A little Art work of my daughters, though you might like to see it
  11. Ray Griffiths

    Fare dodgers

    I watch with interest the other night the programme highlighting passengers not paying Transport fares. I wonder what would happen if we had the red honesty boxes which was located on the platform of Birmingham trams. The boxes was located for passengers alighting the tram to put the fares which...
  12. Ray Griffiths

    National Service

    I served my N/S in the Royal Engineers No3 Training Regt at Cove and 17 Port Regt Southampton 1959-1961. Some of the members I remember was Jonny Ogston the Scotish International Goal Keeper, one of the Mudlarks pop group was another and Scott the Chelsea player football.
  13. Ray Griffiths

    V E & VJ Day 2020 celebrations

    Part 1 of my VE Display Part 2 to follow.
  14. Ray Griffiths

    Worst car of the 1960's

    The worst car I have had was the new Vauxhall Viva HC I bought new and because I'd had the HB that was a lovely car you could do all your own repairs and services. The new Viva HC I bought from the Vauxhall dealers in Walsall the window wipers and the fan heated window device failed to work as I...
  15. Ray Griffiths

    Kingstanding

    The infants was at the back of Dulwich Rd Seniors in Alysebury Cres. off Warren farm Rd
  16. Ray Griffiths

    V E & VJ Day 2020 celebrations

    I've just received my parcel of flags & buntings for VE 75 years celebrations, I've Union Jack , 9 metres of union jack buntings, An Army, RAF, RN flag and a lest we forget Flag. I intend trimming the house up for 8th May as a tribute to my Dad who did it 75 years ago. I will also think of the...
  17. Ray Griffiths

    Air raid shelters

    Hi Eric. It was called the pimple on the Ellerton Road side. I lived at 101 Birdbrook Rd with My Mom & Dad from 1942 to 1959 when I got married. You lived the other side of Dyas Rd. during war the Yanks lived in some of them. They used to call houses with kitchen on the nosey parker houses.
  18. Ray Griffiths

    Air raid shelters

    We used to have one like that in Birdbrook Rd Great Barr but you needed wellies it used to flood, the developers covered a brook over.
  19. Ray Griffiths

    Air raid shelters

    Ropers Hill was at the back of Courtnay Rd which ran from Goodway Rd and Birdbrook Rd it's a housing estate these days. Wasn't that hill back Sidcup Rd called the Spit or some think like that, I used to go to aunt's in Mitchem Grove and go up to play on that hill.
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