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    Wainwright Street Aston

    Thanks a lot Brummie lad, just what I was looking for Found our house just down from Dyson Hall, great. .
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    Wainwright Street Aston

    Hi Steve. I lived a No 120 Wainwright Street opposite the Smiths forging factory from 1940 to 1958, I am writing my autobiography at the moment and would really appreciate any photo's of the street
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    Smith's Foundry, steel works?, Aston

    Hi I lived at 120 Wainwright Street opposite Smiths Forgings, the noise was so bad at times that the items on the fireplace would jump up and down. We lived there from 1940 to 1958. I remember the Wafstaffs, Barbara Crook, our relations the Faardons, the Organs and the Bartrams all lived ion...
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    Moseley - Victorian & Edwardian buildings

    Two buildings which I would photograph would be the Moseley Art School and Moseley Swimming Baths, both nice pieces of old Moseley architecture. I went to MSA from 1951 to 1954.
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    Wainwright Street Aston

    H Astonian Thanks for all that info, I cannot remember the name of the other people you mention, unfortunately my brother died 12 years ago at the age of 72. We lived at No 120 Wainwright Street just down the road from Dyson Hall, do you know if anyone you mention lived anywhere nearby? Thanks...
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    Wainwright Street Aston

    My brother Victor Wood was a bugler in the Boys Brigade in the late 40s early 50s and I was in the life boys for a short time. My grandfather who was killed in the battle of the Somme had his name E A WOO inscribed on a panel attached to a wall on Dyson hall, I wonder what happened to it?
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    duke of wellington

    I lived at 120 wainwright street from 1939 to 1956, Ronnie Tippin the son of the licensee was a good friend. My parents used the pub regularly and at Christmas we always had a firkin of beer supplied by the pub. A lot of our relations lived in Wainwright Street, the Farndons, the Organs and the...
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