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    Handsworth Kindergarten and Preparatory School

    Hello Judy, You don't look old enough! My sister Pauline went there about the same time as you did. I have two memories of the place. First the inedible chewy grey meat we had to eat which I always secreted in my hanky and one amazing event when Miss Boris tried to make me do something...
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    Greenmore College

    A good memory of Greenmore College was that the sportsmaster was Gil Merrick the B'ham and England goalkeeper. I remember he was the last one term to fill in his comment as to each child and he wrote the same for everyone "Tries hard" Unfortunately he spelt it "Try's hard" and they all had to...
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    Handsworth Kindergarten and Preparatory School

    I went to three Birmingham Schools which no longer exist :- Handsworth Kindergarden and Preparatory School, Soho. Greenmore College Prep at Pershore Road, Junior on the Bristol Road Moseley Grammar School. Moseley Grammar school was a nasty dickensian place where bullying was endemic...
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    Handsworth during the 50's and 60's

    Tammy, If you still want info on Handsworth just after the war let me know. I lived there from 1943 to about 1952 Peter Vince
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    Don Sinclair of Midland 'Red'

    As a virgin on this site I have posted a request for information about Don Sinclair as a person to help with a biography I am writing. If anyone knows anyone/anything which might help me I will be most grateful. Peter Vince
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