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    Newhall Hill

    My father worked at Elkingtons for 30 years down New Hall Street, they pioneered electro plating often their work appears on the Antiques Roadshow Elkingtons silver plated a model of a ShermanTank for Field Marshall Montgomery, after the war they moved to Walsall and the factory was converted...
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    City Centre Photographs

    They said that, "On conception the inner ring road was 20 years ahead of its time, and on complition obsolete".
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    Birmingham Central Library 1974 - 2015

    I used to go to the Central Libary, the one before the Madin design and on a wet Saturday moring I first Met Horatio Hornblower
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    The Bell Ladywood

    This is The Bell on KingEdwards Road
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    The Bell Ladywood

    Hi Acklam19, the bell I knew was on King Edwards Road, I suppose the were a number of pubs called the Bell. My father had a drink there on his way back from work, he preferred Ansells beer to Mitchells and Butlers. Regards Ladywood 2
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    I try to avoid Facebook and the rest, but I will try. I wonder if the police might be of assistance? Thanks anyway
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    Snow Hill Station

    As an eight year old I went to Tamwoth on a raining windswept Saturday and saw Princess Margaret Rose thundering up to the north
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    If he is alive, how might I go about finding him? I hope to be in the UK next May and I would try to contact him Thanks
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    Thanks for your help, Matha was Christopher's Mother, Matha called her husband John, although he could have been a Christopher John, I'm new to this, so help me. How do you know he was alive up until 2023? Christopher isn't a relative he is or was my oldest friend. Thanks Lyn
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    Very sorrry, Thank you I'm grateful for any help
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    Christopher J Dowdall would have been 30 years old, he was born in 1944
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    Christopher Dowdall was born 6 January1944 and St. Peters RC School was just off Broad Street.
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    Portland Road School Ladywood

    I was a pupil there from 1957 until 1960
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    If Christorpher is still alive
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    The Bell Ladywood

    Does anyone remember the Bell which was an Ansells Pub
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    Dowdall Christopher John

    Cristerpher Dowdall lived King Edwards Road Ladywood His schools were St. Peters RC and St. Phillips Grammar School
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    Portland Road School Ladywood

    Does anyone remember the school?
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