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  1. M

    Gerrard Street

    Sorry ive messed up the photos but the one with the taxi is a shop at the bottom of furnace lane and gerrard st my friend lived at no 44 so must be close
  2. M

    Furnace lane..

    This was on your site I think but that is that shop in its hey day im guess it was damaged in the war as it was always deralic in my day and I was born in 1949
  3. M

    Furnace lane..

    I think you may have got back further than me as its got to be 20 yrs since I did mine I have it all here in a folder but the internet has come on so much since then I was thinking of joining again as there must be much more on there now
  4. M

    Furnace lane..

    We are all ok been married 52 years we have david 50 in january and joanne 48 in febuary we 3 grandchildren david has a daughter sophie 17 joanne has a daughter Eve also 17 and a son george aged 12 we still live in great barr but on the pear tree estate been here 25 years its been such...
  5. M

    Furnace lane..

    My mom worked at pearsons in the 70s she ran the canteen
  6. M

    Furnace lane..

    I reserched the fry family a few years back I will send you the information that I have if you want me to
  7. M

    Furnace lane..

    Yes Terry how are you was only thinking about you the other day
  8. M

    Furnace lane..

    This shop is on the corner of gerrard st and furnace lane the map above is of the bottom furnace lane from clifford st to porchester st
  9. M

    Furnace lane..

    I its margaret fry here I havent been on the site for ages but that is the top of furnace lane by gower st
  10. M

    Furnace lane..

    What year did you live there it was deralict but still standing till the late 60s
  11. M

    Gerrard Street

    I lived by this shop for years and often wondered what it had been I take it had been distroyed in the war as I was born in 1949 and it looked like this then
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