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    George Dixons Grammar School

    The lecture theatre you mention was used by both schools and had a door into each school at each side.
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    George Dixons Grammar School

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    George Dixons Grammar School

    I haven't been on this forum for years but have just found it again. You have brought back some memories by mentioning those names. Yes, you are right about Miss Saul. She spent ages trying to instill some mathematical knowledge into me. Someone mentioned that Miss Ore became head after Miss...
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    November 11 1919

    Thank you.
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    November 11 1919

    I am trying to find information on what happened in Birmingham on the first anniversary of the end of WW1. Would there have been a civic event in Victoria Square for instance? What date would war memorials have gone up round the town? Also slightly differently when were the 'Dead Mans Pennies'...
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    Rededication Ceremony South African War Memorial Cannon Hill Park

    Yes thank you for that and I have that information already. Also in the 1891 census he was in the Coldstream Barracks in Hanover Square so could have come home injured. I may have to send for his record to know all the details.
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    Rededication Ceremony South African War Memorial Cannon Hill Park

    My Uncle Harry Voyce (1881-1914)from Wellington Road Handsworth was in the Boer War. He was in the Coldstream Guards, between the wars was a police man on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. He was killed in France in December 1914. I wish I could find out how old he was when he...
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