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Someone called Bernard sent me a message ref my cousin, replyed but have no reply. Would you like to try again? Tony

I think I can remenber this little church. My grand parents lived at 47 Addison Road & I oftern visited the road. Have a picture of my cousin standing out the house in the 50,s & the road is empty. Last time I went passed it was full of parked cars & lots of traffic. Sorry I dont have a picture...

Hi All, Yes, remember being told what happened to Fatty Barnfield by my mom. Thanks for the pictures of the shops on the Square. I used to have to go every Saturday morning & get the family meat from the Co-op butchers in the one photo. The manager was a man called Edgar, his wife worked with...

Hi Paul, Victor, Was the guys name Barnfield? " Fatty Barnfield " was the name lads called him. I am trying to remember if he won a lot of money on the pools. I know he went odd and became sick from things my mother told me. His shop was next to Jones the papershop. Another odd couple ran that...

Hi Paul, I was in the Square club. I remember Maggie the bus, going to the camp each summer near Kingsbridge on the farm. Marco had a friend who dressed the same. Johny Cook was one of the youth people I think.

Hi Paul, I may be wrong about if it was Brian or Derek Eagles in my class. I think it was Brian. When Victor reads this he may know. He lived down in the Alwold Road, Burnal Road area I thnk. I do remember " Smiffy " he lived in Bentley Grove. Can you remember George the caretaker? Sad to hear...

Hi Victor, Paul & others, You are right that lads name was Geoffrey. I cannot remember you Paul. Some names are starting to come back to me, Remember, Roy Walker, Micky Price, Tony Parsons, Derek Stanford, Dennis Heyes, Brian? Broadway, Paddy McGill, think he lived on the Square in a prefab...

Hello, My grandfather Oliver Sargent ran a shop in Farm Street before the war at 232, Farm street. Before that they lived in a court behind the shop 8, Claremount Place, Farm Street. My father Edward ( Ted) was born at this adddress along with his brothers Percy, Leonard,Ronald & Sidney. Oliver...

Hi Victor, Bad news about Eddie. Always liked him. I think Gordon Nelson who was in our class as also died. Saw something in the B,ham Mail a few years back. I saw Raymond Ellis on my first trip back from Australia in 1970, outside the Raven pub. Told me he was working on the buses. I dont...

Hi Victor, I did come round your house in Oxley Grove. You had a small steam engine, which ran on meths. Your grandfather helped build railways in South America you told me. We were friends also with Raymond & Jim Ellis. Also a Billy Hedge, who collected butterflies & moths & lived in Spernall...

Hi, I also went to Ilmington Road Boys school. Left in 1961 & was in the same class as Victor Newey.One of the brighter ones in my class & writer of some good verse. Some very funny. Strange how things turn out. I never liked Sam Small & was talking to a friend about the school who never went...