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    Valor Heating

    Yeah that's sad as I said in a previous txt I worked in the spares dept it was a nice place to work but the boss couldn't get his round me having long hair moustache and a smart appearance ( I was in a"group") so I left
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    Westminster Infant/Junior School

    Cor my old school from 52 to 59 don't recognise anyone but is Mr Challis I see ?
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    Rookery Road School Handsworth

    Franklin and Wicksteed were out and out bullies and roe wasn't much better we got our own back on him when we went camping and filled his running vest with air holes from an air rifle lol
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    Villa Cross Cinema

    Hi Richard I'm still hanging on in there lol !!
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    Villa Cross Cinema

    I lived at the back of there from 51 to 63 went nearly every sat morning from about 1955 to 61 magic !!
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    Scouts Cubs Boys Brigade Girl Guides Brownies

    Probably getting my park's mixed up unless there was a jamboree of some sort in Handsworth Park at a later date memories not too good these days
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    Scouts Cubs Boys Brigade Girl Guides Brownies

    If it was the big jamboree in Handsworth Park then I was there but as a cub as I was only 10
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    Villa Road Handsworth

    Great stuff passed it many a time
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    Villa Road Handsworth

    That was it yeah my mom sent me a couple of times with the instruction '5lb of tater an mek sure she knocks the dirt off afore she weighs em !
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    Villa Road Handsworth

    Hi Richard can you remember a little greengrocers embedded in the wall under the Villa cross pub I'm sure my mom used to call it Aunty's Vi,s
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    Villa Road Handsworth

    Stone me just got onto this threadby accident what fab pics of Villa rd loved it there left Handsworth in 63 and never been back
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    Lewis's Department Store

    My grandad Alfred 'Bade' Ainsworth used to work the lifts on Saturdays in the early 60s
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    Town or City

    I don't know what it's like now, I haven't lived there for 3o years but it used to feel like a town
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    Town or City

    Yep Sat shopping with mom and auntie ' up town ' or meeting my mates or a girlfriend it was always called uptown
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    Villa Cross Cinema

    Wow so many memories of that place every Saturday morning me my brother and sister 6d in 6d to spend! Bus to Westminster rd school and up till 1963 bus to my girlfriends magic days!
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    Rookery Road School Handsworth

    Hi clive not too good with modern technology so I can't see the picture yes I remember you very well as we were in the same class all through school if you remember a scruffy little urchin (and probably not too wholesome!!) Then that was me (Brian Shaw)
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    Lewis's Department Store

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    Lewis's Department Store

    Oh yeah do you remember coming out of the clubs for the night service home standing outside Lewis's with everyone eating baked spuds! They were fab!
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    Lewis's Department Store

    Yep all good fun until one of the staff got theirhand down your coller and frog marched out to the minories!!!
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