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  1. oldbrit

    Thanksgiving 2022

    Where we live in The Pinery Parker, Colorado USA we are overrun with Wild Turkeys they are a nuisance they scratch and poop all over the place
  2. oldbrit

    Starting work at Fourteen

    In 1947 I went at age 14 as an apprentice to the Birmingham Sculptor William Bloye until I went in the RAF at 18 for two years
  3. oldbrit

    Sutton Park History

    Not sure if I have posted this before but as John Bishop Midland C&AC also knows, we raced our bikes a lot at Sutton Park This is one in 1951 that My Dad (GodBlessHim) took with his Kodak Brownie camera, remember those? as I was passing going up the hill, also one from Midland C&AC Roll Call was...
  4. oldbrit

    Its Astoness’s (Lyn) birthday

    Lyn Happy Birthday from John in Parker, Colorado USA
  5. oldbrit

    Bikton Grange shops Yardley

    Not sure which shops they were
  6. oldbrit

    Today is Jackie Pritchatt's birthday

    Happy Birthday and many many more from Colorado USA
  7. oldbrit

    Occupations That Have Faded Away

    The hot potato man in the Bull Ring! Reading all the posts. it is sad to see some that are not with us anymore.
  8. oldbrit

    Today is Jackie Pritchatt's birthday

    Have a great day and many many more from John Crump in Colorado USA
  9. oldbrit

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    What is the sign lady with a girl?
  10. oldbrit

    Womens Hospital History and development

    Before I left England for the USA My Mother (God Bless her) had been in and out of the Women's Hospital. of course in typical English fashion, but no one talked about it. But I found out later when she passed away that she had some real medical problems, Had I known this I would never have left...
  11. oldbrit

    Coventry Road South Yardley

    There also down that road to Acocks Green, it crossed a canal that we nippers used to go down to. Both my parents were cremated at Yardley Cemetery.
  12. oldbrit

    Coventry Road South Yardley

    In the 1950s my band played at the Swan Pub upstairs in the front, on weekends. When we were kids, my sister Joan and I visited a relative that lived near there on Coventry Rd, you can see a Trolly Bus in the going by. I was about 5 or so then around 1938 or so
  13. oldbrit

    Queen Elizabeth II has died

    Watching the funeral in Parker, Colorado USA what a sad day for all.
  14. oldbrit

    Jag or Rover?

    In Colorado USA I had a new 1967? Rover 2000tc for a few years apart from no air con it was a fine machine that I drove all over the USA and went skiing in the Colorado Mountains with snow tyres no problem at all. later I had a Sterling that was nothing but trouble
  15. oldbrit

    Singer Factory Small Heath

    I rode my bike every day there from Yardley I worked in cost accounting on the top floor 1953 on
  16. oldbrit

    Church Road, Yardley.

    Billy Haden had a barbers shop on top of Church rd before the Swan in the 1940s 1950s
  17. oldbrit

    Prefabs

    That is one that was on Moat Lane it is the next door one to the Howells that their daughter June was my first girlfriend
  18. oldbrit

    FAO: Residents of Chelmsley Wood (past and present).

    I used to go fishing for tiddlers in the stream in Clelmsley Woods in the 1950s Beautiful countryside then
  19. oldbrit

    Prefabs in Queens Road, Yardley

    Prefabs on Moat Lane Yardley for year my first girl friend June Howell lived there
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