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    Alex's Pie Stands

    Yes they were the same pies, the factory/bakery was based in Warwick , they supplied so many places round about:- and some years later my son took me there to buy up whole boxes of so called reject bakes, same pies but with bashed in lids etc., still brilliant I believe the company was taken...
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    Alex's Pie Stands

    Wow, that photo takes me back, thank you Carolina (great reggae song from the same era!)
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    Alex's Pie Stands

    Those fleur de lys pies, Chicken and Mushroom were the best ever, massive if I remember, those from the Alex's closest to the Albany.:rolleyes: The biker chaps used to congregate there also.:)
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Smidgeon of news for anyone who was maybe in our class., on a recent transatlantic cruise I shared breakfast with a lass who was in my class at Eliot St, Carol Jones (now Parry) what are the odds after 50 odd years of such a chance encounter, we rattled through no end of names and teachers and...
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Hello Bill., As I was born two years prior to you our classmates would have been probably siblings etc., but thanks for the info ref the Pittaways, often wondered how they fared, wonder why they returned from the 'land of plenty', yes these those houses are still there, along with the chip...
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Hello., I assume you were in Seniors at that time (Mr Johns, Mr Fisher, Mr Holloway, Mr Darby, and wondered if you recall some of your class members (I have a long list and would happily put their names on here if that's acceptable), be wonderful to see if some of them responded. Catherine
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Hi again., Yes I vaguely remember the name Beard and Brian Hands but difficult to picture folks without photos eh? I have a list of names somewhere for anyone interested in classmates of mine, approx. 1958-61., just let me know. Roger, I loved the country dancing, my partner used to be Brian...
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    The grey cells have clicked in Roger, Sandra Randall not Ramsey, thanks for awakening the dormant files!
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    The School Bully

    Thank you Phil, as you can see I did exactly that. Catherine.
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Hello Roger., I think you may be right, that Christine may have been a Sandra Ramsey, when I visited Cook St last year I stood in that cul de sac and walked past those houses at the bottom of Cook St - thence outside our school, the memories overwhelmed me, John Russell's Mom (used to be one...
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    The School Bully

    Dear Moderator, Please can you change my babby thingy to wench, quite liked to be called a wench even at this great age, Ever so ta!
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    PS I never put that Brummie babby name on here, can it be removed please?
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Hello Roger., I stood in Dawn Franklin's garden one sunny afternoon aged about 9 staring at the clouds for cherubs, well we were told at Sunday school that's where they lived, Christine lived in that little cul de sac off Chattaway. Yes I think it was the Globe but my brothers and I were...
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Chattaway Street!! A sweet shop on the corner that sold fizzy white Kaylie or however it is spelled., A lass called Christine lived nearby, I lived in Cook Street round the corner, in fact last year my brother (born 1947)and I (born 1943) actually went there just to see our old haunts, I am not...
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Also remembered Mr Tom Fisher (what a dish, with or without his beard).
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    The School Bully

    My School was Eliot Street Juniors and Seniors. Seems most of us knew of or had their own personal bully, mine was a girl called Linda, (mother had a florists on Lichfield Rd Aston) she sat behind me in class, whispering, I'll get you later - made my life hell and terrified me every...
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    Eliot Street School Nechells

    Hello., I left Eliot Street (Seniors) in 1961 so we may have crossed paths as I also attended Juniors and remembered Mr Rome.,Mr Stratford (EX RAF PTI) I remember Mr Johns, we also had Mr Derby, Mr Holloway, Mrs Stableford the craft teacher who taught me every craft I now do, Miss Peck...
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