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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Again not in my garden had this catus and many others for years i woke up to this today there are 6 more buds i hope they flower at once first time i had one flower
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    Medals

    IWM has reversed its plans on not having a VC display
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    Witton Road

    2 windows and doorways one was blocked off been a storeroom used to spend all my pocket money in there still spending my money on the same stuff now we never grow up
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    Witton Road

    I recall a Mrs Bevan been mentioned in our house
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    Loved going to the Futurist with a date after the movie pop into the Grapes a no trills pub i knew how to spoil em LOL
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    Stechford Area

    Anyone recall a shop called Southern Railways near Stechford Station
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    Rag Market

    In the 80s they used to hold a antique market every Monday i was on night shift at IBM Hagley rd i used to nip out at 6am i got some good stuff there as i was converting our first house back to circa 1930s
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    Bombing Brum

    Thank you Don
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    Bombing Brum

    James st Lozells Jerry Landmine Don
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    Motorcycle Shops

    They were a top bike
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    Bombing Brum

    Lyn My Grandad Frank Preston got injured James St i hope this not a another urban myth i no one surviving in the family to ask
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    Bombing Brum

    Yes i did not want to mention on here that the poor women was decapitated but this was a kids tale so im thinking now its a Urban Myth
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    Bombing Brum

    My first house was no 33 Preston Rd the guy next door Dennis was a little boy during the war he lived at no 31 he found a body of a women who had been taking shelter in the entry to his house all the windows at front and rear of my house were wartime ersatz glass so even our road felt the...
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    Motorcycle Shops

    So True
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    Motorcycle Shops

    My first and second motorbikes sadly i have no photos of later bigger Beasts but am asking family members Honda C70 from Greys Coventry Rd DOC 91 K Honda 125 from Arnolds by Perry Barr Park
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    Bombing Brum

    Not Brum But a great photo i found researching Do 217s as i have a rear landing gear makers plate of a Do 217 II E circa late 1943 No heath and safety in them days???
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    Bournville Village

    My patch was Oakfield Rd when i worked for the Trust i recall all the Toads in the spring
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    Well in my garden

    Yes there was a open well in my Nans garden end house Witton rd before Trinity rd just a board over it very dangerous for us kids thinking back they found a few when demolishing Mansfield rd again a playground for us kids the natural wells are called Artesian wells i recall from my Army days...
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    Rag and Bone Men

    Yes but they seemed to live for ever even in cloudy fish bowls
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Not in my garden as its first year in this house garden looks like the Somme at mo have time late summer post pics of ponds etc then
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