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  1. J

    RIP OZZY OSBOURNE

    I have just watched last night's BBC 1 documentary "Coming Home", which covers Ozzy & Sharon's move from LA back to their home in Buckinghamshire. It is well worth a watch and is available on BBCi Player, in case you missed it. It showed how much coming back to the UK and doing his final...
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    Help Required WW1 Regiment

    Further to Morturn's close-up post #17, it could be The King's Shropshire Light Infantry?
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    Help Required WW1 Regiment

    Could it be a Light Infantry Bugle horn badge?
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    Slade Road Service Garage

    We were on the right of the garage LP, on the other side of the Slade, the end shop on the bank of shops that started with the off licence on the corner of Fentham Road (our shop was FJ Lewis).
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    Slade Road Service Garage

    I'm sorry, I don't know.
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    Slade Road Service Garage

    I knew Norman later on LP, but my Dad knew him much better, he used to occasionally pop into our fruit & veg shop for a chat.
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    Slade Road Service Garage

    Here is the garage as photographed on 10th August 1959 (from the Chris Barker Collection). I remember it, when Norman Bonner ran it:
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    A lot of the bigger retail shops closed down because increased rents and Council Tax charges, made them too costly to continue to run there and a lot moved on to retail parks instead. Online shopping also played a big part and in the case of smaller High Street shops, they faced stiff...
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    Sadly Sutton town centre has gone much the same way as Erdington has, it's just taken a few more years to get there. Tis the same in a lot of the areas that once contained thriving local shops, they are now unrecognisable, from what they once were. Such a shame.
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    Growing up in Streetly in the 60's

    Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier Kev, I have just re-read your post. The following proves that your memory was correct and confirms that there was a school on Egerton Road, this fellow Villa fan, remembers it being there and is now living on the site of what, until the mid 1980's, when it...
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    Scams: telephone, email, texts 2025

    Got a text the other day along the lines of "Dad this is my new telephone number". No doubt the start of what would become a scam, because if he was going to change his number he would have telephoned me with the reason why and I had only spoken to him the day before. I told my wife about it and...
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    I agree 100% Richard, but going back does bring back some nice memories, if we are able to manage to put to one side, what we are looking at now.
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    It's International Day of Birmingham! 24th September

    Some photographs from yesterday's International Day of Birmingham 2025:
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    It's International Day of Birmingham! 24th September

    We watched a programme on Sky that Joe Lycett did about visiting all of the towns/cities in the world called Birmingham by bus earlier this year (they are mainly in the USA), which was called "Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham". It might still be available on "catch up", if so it is worth...
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    Erdington did have it's similarities... Great programme by the way. ;)
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    1950's 60s and 70s Erdington

    I hadn't heard it called "the village" until when I was 11 and at Slade Road School, my friend Ian told his Dad that we were "going up the village". He lived towards the top of Hillaries Road and I was on the Slade Road, we had always simply called it "Erdington".
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    H Sheppard, Grocer Erdington

    It could also be a road off the High Street, such as York Road or Coton Lane. Shop fronts have changed so much over the past 100 years though.
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    H Sheppard, Grocer Erdington

    The is described as a WW1 grocery shop and someone on Facebook has said H Sheppard had a grocery shop in Erdington. That might have been on the High Street or elsewhere in Erdington, I can't see anything else as yet.
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    I remember my Nan doing the ironing in the 60's, when I was a lad. She would put the iron on the gas stove and would then put a wet handkerchief over my school trousers to put a crease into them, I still recall the steam hissing. :)
  20. J

    happy birthday pjmburns (janice)

    Hope you had a nice one!
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