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    Blakenhale Junior School

    Thanks Malcolm, don't think I would remember their faces after 60 years now, but thanks for the offer. Bob Edwards was in same class Dave Cashmore do you remember him? Also Derek Mead, Joy Goodman, Janice Haddy all in your year I knew. Merry Christmas
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    Blakenhale Junior School

    On that trip to Belgium were Paul Cheshire and Terry Feiding who were both in my class and played in School football team with me, although we played very little during the winter of 62/63. You have would seen me at school, myself and David Corbett would bring all the milk crates out of the snow...
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    Blakenhale Junior School

    Reading through this section I remember Alan Evans, in my class for 4 years, Miss Lygo, Miss John, Mr Rees, Mr Davis. 3 Welsh, I of Italean decent. Shame to hear of his death in tradgic circumstances. Steve White lost his eye when a firework was thrown at him. Met him in a pub in the eighties...
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    Gabriel's "Corner shops" Ruston Street, Ladywood and Mickleton Avenue, Sheldon

    I do remember an assistant at the shop called Mick at the time. The shop had a bike for delivery, and he did the deliveries at the time I recall.
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    Gabriel's "Corner shops" Ruston Street, Ladywood and Mickleton Avenue, Sheldon

    Hi I do remember Gabriels it was an old-fashioned (not self-service) small grocery shop. I was at junior school at the time when the whole block of shops & flats was built on waste ground behind Hidcote Hall. I would guess the shop opened 1961/2 because I remember the end shop was a...
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