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    Lime Grove, Venetia Road

    Michael Concannon 302 Garrison Lane. Hello again Mark, a bit of a long-shot really, but if you are still using this forum and receiving messages, maybee you might get in touch? My phone is 00353858838786 , that's Ireland, l am on Watsap
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    Lime Grove, Venetia Road

    Do you still live in Birmingham?
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    Lime Grove, Venetia Road

    That's amazing! Hard to believe. And your mom is still good aswell. I remember the dump and being down there with you or with your whole family, we would be begging your mom to set fire to the rubbish down there and she would usually give in after we nagged her enough and then the fire engine...
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    Lime Grove, Venetia Road

    Hello, l am Mike Concannon and lived at 302 Garrison Lane. I think that the houses of Lime Groves back yards used to face our back yard, there was a family directly opposite our back yard and a nice bubbly lady called Mrs Watson lived there, she had three children, Mark (the eldest) then Jane...
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    Then & Now

    Thank you Old Mohawk for posting the old picture of Garrison Lane, we lived at 302 Garrison lane, the row of houses on the right hand side of the picture, I have been looking for years for a picture like this, I notice that the houses that were bombed during the war, three houses up the road...
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    Birmingham Irish

    Hello Jim, I was born on Garrison Lane of Irish parents, myself and my brothers went to a catholic junior school, now it's not the catholic bit that's important, it's the fact that every kid there was the same as me, English but also Irish. we mixed with Irish people all the time. On Sunday...
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    Lime Grove, Venetia Road

    Yes there was, if you walked further up Venetia road towards The Dump, on the right, there was another little grive, the same layout as Lime grove, I remember that a member of the Hells Angels and his family used to live there and my younger brother used to go up there to play with them
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    Garrison Lane

    I remember accompanying my father as he collected "the pools" and the back to back houses were further up the road than where we lived, which was 302 Garrison Lane, if you travel onwards from the bottom right hand corner of the map. And Mike is correct, the house you are looking for is 4 the...
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