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    Wine Lodge Blackwwod Rd.

    The wine lodge has gone. shops still there except for the Greengrocer. Newsagent, hairdresser, accountants, opticians, streetly stores, post office, butchers, vet. If anyone is on Facebook, there is a Streetly Local History section.
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    Sutton Park History

    On the older one no houses on the right. Pre 1884? 1920 map records houses.
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    Sandwell School Streetly

    I must have been there the same time as you, and I think I still have the panoramic roll somewhere. I'm the one crunched up on the front row.
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    Sandwell School Streetly

    Think he must have undertaken military service in Egypt because he mentioned irrigation systems along the Nile, in a way that seemed to be first hand knowledge.
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    Sandwell School Streetly

    My old school cap.
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    Sandwell School Streetly

    Hello, Yes it sounds like you went to the same school. I don't remember the tuck shop though.
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    Sandwell School Streetly

    Hello, I was at Sandwell School between the years 1956-1961. I remember Col. Gething and his description of life in Egypt. I have a letter posted to my parents dated June 1961 from Newton-Hearn; "We regret that we have to inform you that the school must now close at the end of this Term on...
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