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From OldBrit in Parker. Colorado USA To all my friends on BHF Merry and Happy Cr=hristmas and a Happy New Year

This is where CROFT ROAD enters CHURCH RD from Google street view Hmmm IT says the image file is too large for the server. But Google Street view has it. Not sure how to downsize the image? but it does show some commercial buildings at the junction of Croft Road and Church Road. this is up from...

SUEMALINGS, Croft Road, is up the Barrows lane hill, (that we used to slide down when it snowed) off Barrows Lane towards Church Rd from where I lived at 126 Moat Lane, across from Digbeth in the field I lived there for 23 years

I well remember the SMOG thas is not what we called it then, but that's what it was in the winter you could not even see in front of you I have walked in front of Dad's car to lead him home from Smethwick to Yardley. I have walked along the street feeling my way along walls to get home. Coal...

The image that I showed of course is a fake, anyone that cycles nows what are the obvious clues

This is a typical example of what can be done Haha!!

#3 IS William Bloye the sculptor I know I was an apprentice to him for four years

We had them on Moat Lane I remember

Where we live in The Pinery Parker, Colorado USA we are overrun with Wild Turkeys they are a nuisance they scratch and poop all over the place

In 1947 I went at age 14 as an apprentice to the Birmingham Sculptor William Bloye until I went in the RAF at 18 for two years

Not sure if I have posted this before but as John Bishop Midland C&AC also knows, we raced our bikes a lot at Sutton Park This is one in 1951 that My Dad (GodBlessHim) took with his Kodak Brownie camera, remember those? as I was passing going up the hill, also one from Midland C&AC Roll Call was...

Lyn Happy Birthday from John in Parker, Colorado USA

Not sure which shops they were

Happy Birthday and many many more from Colorado USA

The hot potato man in the Bull Ring! Reading all the posts. it is sad to see some that are not with us anymore.

Have a great day and many many more from John Crump in Colorado USA

What is the sign lady with a girl?

Before I left England for the USA My Mother (God Bless her) had been in and out of the Women's Hospital. of course in typical English fashion, but no one talked about it. But I found out later when she passed away that she had some real medical problems, Had I known this I would never have left...

There also down that road to Acocks Green, it crossed a canal that we nippers used to go down to. Both my parents were cremated at Yardley Cemetery.

In the 1950s my band played at the Swan Pub upstairs in the front, on weekends. When we were kids, my sister Joan and I visited a relative that lived near there on Coventry Rd, you can see a Trolly Bus in the going by. I was about 5 or so then around 1938 or so