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hello mossg, I see you were a member of the Prince of Wales youth club. My friend (Philip Lloyd) and myself(Dave Patchett) were members there for some time, we played Table tennis mostly and were members of the P o W team. Some of the names I can remember are Frank & Bobby Copper, Ronnie Frazer(drove us mad practicing the piano),Brian Byfield, Len Hale(the main man) and his son John and Jimmy Wright and his wife who lived next door and were caretakers. Maybe you can remember a few more. Dave.
I love these photo's but I wish someone had some of Watery Lane
What, like this one.
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ahh thats better thanks viv i shall save that one...yes a very imposing building..must admit i can not remember seeing it myself although i was living round the corner from it in the early 70s in uxbridge st...not sure when it was demolished..maybe someone on here will know that..
lyn
lyn
so many missing photo from this thread folks...either due to the hacking or photobucket removing them...i will do my best to try and repost any i still have but in the meantime would anyone be able to repost the photos on post 38 and 39 please...
many thanks
lyn
many thanks
lyn
oldMohawk
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Using the Photobucket fix extension I can see all the Photobucket pics and will upload them somwhere.
Some of the earlier ones posted before Oct 2011 were lost in the hack but some of them were saved in Coppermine but difficult to find without file names ... only the ones with 'brearley' in the file names are easy to find
Some of the earlier ones posted before Oct 2011 were lost in the hack but some of them were saved in Coppermine but difficult to find without file names ... only the ones with 'brearley' in the file names are easy to find
oldMohawk
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Just been reading this old thread I went to a nursery the same time as your son i dont remember its name but it was at the top of brearley street on a slight hill it was not associated with the infant school st Chad's at the other end of brearley st .all the children were assigned an animal picture mine was a giraffe and we looked for our picture to show us where we hung our coats.we always had a nap in the afternoon i think in little bunk beds and there was swings and a climbing frame outside I must of been only 4 but I still remember vaguely little bits of my time there.I hope it is the same nursery you remember.
Thanks for that .I did see them photos and I remember the railings but I dont remember the building having another level so I thought it was not the nursery but I was only 4 and only remember parts of the nursery so thanks again also while I'm here do you remember the small park I think it was up the side street from the barrel pub.
I worked at St Chad's Comprehensive in Brearley Street for a short while in the early 70s. On the outside it was very imposing but inside I remember it light and airy and I found it welcoming. Classrooms were off central halls on both floors. Parquet floors, lots of glass windows to the inside as well as outside. Difficult to get an impression of the building outside because the street was narrow. I would turn in from Summer Lane and never walked beyond the school. I wish now that I had done so. It would have been 1972, maybe Feb or March, when there was a big explosion. Apparently a gas explosion in the factory opposite blew out its windows. Fortunately the smaller Victorian glass panes of the school held fast. The kids all thought it was a car bomb. Bad times in Birmingham then. I was told - don't know if it was true - that the Fire Service were so appalled when they did their inspection that they would not admit to having ever inspected it. No electric fire alarm, just someone going round with a hand bell and only 3 doors to outside, two at the front and one at the back into the small playground where you would be trapped by high brick walls and no gate out. Exit was only through the building. I visited for the first time recently and had hoped against hope that the building had survived and converted maybe into offices or loft apartments. All I could do was look at the dropped curbs in the pavement and a strange possible concreted-up door on the entrance to St Chad's Industrial Estate.
Hi Astoness i lived in Ward St off Brearly St and worked for Elkingtons.
hello blews st...we do have a thread for ward st with a few old photos...if you have any of the street that you can share could you add them to the ward st thread please...click on the link below
lyn
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lyn
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Astoness Hi Lyn this is pommie I put in a massage in forum to you but I must have put it in the wrong place about court 9 ward st hope you can find it pommie
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