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  1. evergreen

    School Milk

    I hated milk, so I used to hide the bottle behind my back and tip it down the nearest drain. Even now my coffee is still black, I can only just cope with a bit of custard or a cream cake.
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    Ryan Peter

    Re: Long shot but can anyone help me! Hi Julie, Do try Genes reunited, I found a sister I didnt know was out there and found a load of relatives. Its possible that there is a relative that has got some information on their family tree that you havnt got. It's worth a try.
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    Ryan Peter

    Re: Long shot but can anyone help me! Try Genes reunited. It's amazing how much info on other peoples trees there is
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    Book: From sloggers to peaky blinders,gangs of birmingham

    glad you are enjoying it Sis, :):):) Got it mail order from play.com if anyone wants one
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    Unfortunate business names.

    Forgot the hairdressers.......Curl up and dye
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    Unfortunate business names.

    the food in Balti Towers is good.
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    Astoness ( lyn )

    Thinking of you and the family Heather
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    Unfortunate business names.

    I think I will give your dentist a miss
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    Unfortunate business names.

    Quarry Bank high Street. Walter Wall carpets. Birmingham. Diana Doors windows & conservatories
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    Pussycat dreams for Percy Puss

    Hi Georgie, My thoughts are with you, having to make the awful but very kind decision you did today. We took a one eyed Tom cat in a few years ago, who like Percy just appeared one day, he was the terror of the neighbourhood ! Sadly we had to make the same decision as you, which is so hard...
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    who remembers fireball xl5

    Reading the posts has taken me back to.. Captain Pugwash & The Black Pig Crackerjack with Peter Glaze And I loved Trumpton, with the firemen, Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb. :DNow I need a lie down with a damp cloth on my head:D
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    Gangs of Birmingham

    Maggie, glad you are enjoying the book, wonder how they got it so wrong that they had to have 3 goes at hanging someone ?:(:(
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    The Moody Blues

    How amazing, we used to go to the Plaza in the 60's, we did see El Riot there
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    The Moody Blues

    Hi Tony, Thanks for the info on Ray Thomas, got to admit that it was about 1963 somewhere in the Sutton Coldfield area that I first saw them. The memory has stayed with me, a glass of lime & lemon,half a crafty fag round the back of the venue, great group, I thought I was in heaven:D ( we...
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    The Moody Blues

    Hi Tony, Now there are some names I remember, I saw El Riot & The Rebels, now can you tell me if Justin Hayward was the lead singer? I think he was but I was only a kid at the time. Favourite record at the school youth club was Go Now by the Moody Blues. We used to travel miles to see...
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    Site Of The College Of Food And Domestic Art What Was There Before

    Thanks for this post, It does prove the family history correct. Does any one know if the Five ways pub was where the Five ways island is now ?
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    Site Of The College Of Food And Domestic Art What Was There Before

    Hi Dibs, You have taken me back even further, Frederick Bowkett was my great great grandfather and Thomas Bowkett was my G. G. G. Grandfather. That was something I didn't know had my Mom been alive she would have been so thrilled. I have now got to let the other branch of the Bowketts...
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    Site Of The College Of Food And Domestic Art What Was There Before

    I am thrilled with this. Here goes, Kate Julia Bowkett married Harry Collins June 1891 (great grandparents) 1901 Census. Harry & Kate Collins & daughter Elsie Gertrude age 6 (Elsie my grandmother) living at 41 Endicott Road. Aston Manor. 1911 Census " "...
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    Site Of The College Of Food And Domestic Art What Was There Before

    How great is this, looks like we are distant cousins. I will sort the link out andd let you know just how distant heather
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    Site Of The College Of Food And Domestic Art What Was There Before

    Thank you all for the information, the pictures are brilliant. It makes family history come to life Thanks again Heather
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