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  1. oldbrit

    St Edburgha's Church Yardley

    I took a very similar photo I was told much the same tale by the vicar
  2. oldbrit

    HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY MIKEJEE

    Have a great day Mike and many many more you are catching up with me at 90 in June
  3. oldbrit

    Yardley Village

    A couple of years ago we visited there and now it is blocked off to traffic.
  4. oldbrit

    HAPPY 70TH VIVIENNE14

    Viv from John
  5. oldbrit

    Its Ray Griffiths birhday !

    Have a great day Ray! From John the cyclist
  6. oldbrit

    St Edburgha's Church Yardley

    This is on one side of the church I lived on Moat Lane in Yardley for my first 23 years went to Sunday school there
  7. oldbrit

    Happy Birthday Strawberry Hunter!

    Strawberry Hunter
  8. oldbrit

    The Swan Yardley

    Thats ME!
  9. oldbrit

    Few Old Bikes

    83" Fixed is what we raced on
  10. oldbrit

    Few Old Bikes

    This is a people-powered ME, Brum-made BIKE by Bill Gameson in Small heath You said a few old bikes?
  11. oldbrit

    Church Road, Yardley.

    Itried to post photos showing the end of Croft rd and Church Road it said they were too big?
  12. oldbrit

    Golden Hillock Road Six Ways Small Heath

    Of course, they would never mention anything like that! But I saw it every day. William Bloye's House was there at six ways roundabout. but please do not take any offense this was in the 1950s I worked there for four years. Do you remember the big house there?
  13. oldbrit

    Golden Hillock Road Six Ways Small Heath

    I meant GROOVES Sorry!
  14. oldbrit

    Golden Hillock Road Six Ways Small Heath

    I worked for William Bloye the Birmingham sculptor at his big Victoria house with his studio in the back, it was on Golden Hillock Rd, for 4 years, until I went in the AF in 1951 at age 18 I seem to remember a roundabout there that had grooves in the road from the BSA bike testers racing around...
  15. oldbrit

    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Thanks for the info I had not had a Cadburys for years I just surprised that it did not have the same flavour
  16. oldbrit

    Golden Hillock Road Six Ways Small Heath

    Yes, it was a shop in a row of shops that sold bikes and parts. Billy Gameson worked there in the shop this was in the late1940s early 1950s
  17. oldbrit

    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Living now in the USA we got a couple of bars of Cadburys milk Choc. What a shock it was bloody awful, I assume now that they are owned by Hersey's of the US is it now that bad in England? Nothing like I used to remember when living in Brum
  18. oldbrit

    Golden Hillock Road Six Ways Small Heath

    In 1949 and 1950 I had Billy Gameson at 112 Golden Hillock Rd build me bike frame forks that I raced on for years anyone has a photo of this shop? It was in a row of small shops
  19. oldbrit

    Golden Boys

    I will talk to My Bloye when I see him
  20. oldbrit

    Golden Boys

    Good to see them back even if in my mind spoiled with the Gold finish
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