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  1. Tuppenny Rice

    Free giveaway: From the Shadow of Poverty by Dennis Harding

    I've read this great book by Dennis Harding and would like to pass it on. It's a signed copy. It's about growing up in Nechells and Alum Rock, and working at GEC Witton and GKN Farr Filtration in Digbeth. Tons of photos, also interesting sketches and diagrams. Lots of yarns, happenings and...
  2. M

    A Walk Down Summer Lane by John Douglas

    My mother lived a few doors down from the Douglas family in Newcombe Road, Handsworth, and played with Johnny and his brother as they were growing up. Many years later, after "A Walk Down Summer Lane" was published, he gave my Mom a signed copy, but sadly she loaned it out too many times and it...
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