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Thanks for that OldBrummie will try and see if she is or can still do this.

Remember my Grandad Denis Breakwell (18 penden road went to have a look at the old house a couple of years ago from the outside not changed, wonder what the inside is like now) using the Valley, as a old timer was told he was one of the first people to start up the old British Legion, remember...

My dad took me to the British Legion in Hodge Hill (shawsdale road) Brown and Mild

My dad Jerry Flynn worked at Fishers as a Finisher i don´t know what this `position is or was can anybody please tell me what a finisher did , thank you

My Parents lived in Ashbrook road, sometime in the late 1950´s, I lived there for the first 6 months of my life June 1957 to December 57. anybody got any info of the area, road or pictures from this time please.

Anybody from above area 1962 /1968

Does anybody know if there are records kept of ex employees my great aunt uncle and grandfather worked there way back, think my great aunt retired late 60´s to early 70´s

Thank you for that will have a go other wise i will ask the Daughter wizz kids

Not on same subject but how do i post a photo from my phone ¿

St Wilfreds RC Shawsdale rd Castle Brom about 1967 anybody out there

My Grandfather had 3 numbers in WW1 first with the Cycle Regiment they were disbandet then he was with the West Yorkshire reg (why Yorkshire i don´t know as he lived in Yardley Wood all his life) , one battalion merged with another and he got another number, so not uncommon

Thanks Phil, yes Gardners now i remember up the road was Teddy Haynes green grocers if i remember who had a shop in Chipperfield road,around the corner where i lived Millinghton Road across the road from Gardners was a pet shop and arond the corner in Bromford road was a Wallpaper shop and next...

Remember this area well living in Hodge Hill, lovely walk through the common along to the Fox & Goose or as i got older cycling up there, used the mens barbas at the back of the Beaufort cinema think it was run by a father and son in the 60´s, what was the fish and chip shop called ¿ the...

Before Skateboards, we made our own device,we used to put a Annual (those hard back books you used to get at xmas) on a Roller skate sit on it and go down the road which had a small hill, if we only and patent it then we would be rich

Anybody out there attend St Wilfreds RC Shawsdale rd, 1962 to 1968, Only remember the head Mr Doncasley, pupils Mark Ward, Jimmy Byrnes, Anne Smart (lived in Erminghton cresent) Karen Casay, Margaret Howard sure there are at least 30 odd in my class but forgot names as most went to st wilfred...

When i was a Schoolboy 1969, 1970´s having a saturday job, summer job at the small Butchers in the corner on Stechford road think it was called Pitt or Pitts, had to do delivery´s on a bike saturday´s. Made me laugh that at the end of the day they put the savings in the oven of the cooker out...

Thanks for that, was to young to remember a cafe, i have seen a picture i think on this forum of a shop on the corner of Highbury road called Finches, don´t know if it was one of my long lost relations yet again thank you..

Hi northeder there see you lived in Highbury Road, though you were a child when you moved there and not knowing how long or if you still live there, you did not know my Great Uncle & Aunt Florrie and Bill Finch brother and sister both never married, both worked at Cadburys, Bill used to ride a...

Seeking any info on Florance B Ward. Married in 1945 to Timothy Pearse Flynn my uncle (from Cork Ireland). 1955 Electrol Roll lived at 509 Alum Rock Road. Timothy lived here unti his death in 1986, i have no knowledge of his wife, and her family no DOB Parents etc. Looking to obtain their...

Yes got my first uniform there and also was allowed to buy a knife to have on my belt proper boy scout