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    Hop-picking

    Cadeau. Have only just read about your Hop picking days, thats a wonderful story. I hope that your knee healed well and you have no lasting effects from it.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    shavedfish49 Thank You So Much. I have made a note of the phone number and give them a call.
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    Where is This? 176

    There, I did not get a chance Phil, I dought if I would have got it as I know I am no good at it.
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    Help needed

    It seems that my interest of the maps are that of Primrose Hill being in Duddeston close to Avenue Road if I am correct. Left Of The Maps.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    Hello Wendy. Where could I obtain it from if I visited Birmingham ?
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    Just saw Carl Chinn's DVD called " Back To Back Birmingham " a real must for any Brummie.
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    Petrol Price's

    I remember in the late fifties when I had my first m/cycle, petrol was on tokens and cost 2/6 a gallon, 2/6 was equivalent to the present 12 1/2 p. THAT WAS FOR A GALLON AND NOT A LITRE.
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    boxing day whre is this 2

    This is a photograph I have of the same factory.
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    boxing day whre is this 2

    It looks like the " Corkscrew Factory " on the corner of Henry Street and Heneage Street, it was there in the mid 1950's but like Phil I cannot put a name to it.
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    St Lawrence Church Dartmouth Street

    Hope this works for you, HAPPY CHRISTMAS. Click on Photograph for enlargement. TAKE CARE.
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    Afghan series called road warriers on jan 14th on itv 1 or 2

    Many Thanks. Have made a note of it.
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    Ann Street City Centre

    Lyn. Its lovely to see those old pics well before our time. Views our distant relatives may well have seen.
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    nechells parkway

    Nice one Lyn, I cannot quite position where it is but its still interesting.
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    Birmingham Working Boys Homes

    mikejee. Many thanks for the information.
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    Birmingham Working Boys Homes

    Louisa. I am interested in any references to the Gordon Hall Boys Home around 1911. I believe it was somewhere in Digbeth. Anything about this Boys Home would be of interest to me.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    Phil. Sorry to say that I cannot remember that scrap yard although it may well have been there.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    mikejee. Thank you for your post. Trueblue. Our address was 13 court 5 house but was also down as 5 back 34, so you can see we were a very short distance from Weston's shop at 38. I must have seen them almost every other day but time has erased a lot of my memory I am sorry to say, sounds daft...
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    LYN. Have not seen that photograph before, its amazing how these old photographs keep turning up. I am so pleased to see them.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    TRUEBLUE. I have been searching for another photograph of Coleman Street and you will find it posted on April 22 nd 2008 post number 193. As far as my memory serves me Westons had a shop in Coleman Street just off the end of this photo , hope my memory serves me in saying it is listed as a...
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    DERICK. I am ok, hope you are also well. That photo you posted is new to me, I still look out for new postings of interest. I don't seem to get about quite so much as I used to, I guess it will now be in six months time when the warmer weather returns.
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