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    Richard Dye replied to the thread Clifton Road Aston.
    Just like my Nanna in Aston and where I was born.
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    Richard Dye reacted to raz ullah's post in the thread Clifton Road Aston with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi Nutter us Ullah family did live at no 32 the front house and we had our own outside toilet i know luxury hard times but we made good
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    Lloyd reacted to mikejee's post in the thread John Bright Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    As you can see from the 1950s map, this building is wrongly numbered. It is labelled as 84 and 86, when (going from the series of...
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    Lloyd reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread John Bright Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There is some writing on the lower part of the building to the left but I can’t quite read it! I guess the position was the corner of...
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    maxtone posted the thread Ms Minnie Lloyd 1938 in I - L.
    Hi, I am trying to trace a Ms Minnie Lloyd who worked at carnegie welfare hunters road in 1938. I know she would not be alive now but...
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    raz ullah replied to the thread Clifton Road Aston.
    Hi Nutter us Ullah family did live at no 32 the front house and we had our own outside toilet i know luxury hard times but we made good
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    Richard Dye reacted to raz ullah's post in the thread Clifton Road Aston with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi all i was born and bred at 32 Clifton Road and use to barrow coal from Baglins Coalyard on a Saturday to our house for 2 bob pocket...
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    Richard Dye reacted to raz ullah's post in the thread Clifton Road Aston with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Gail we lived at no 32 Clifton Road which was the other end to where Graham and Gary lived
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    raz ullah replied to the thread Clifton Road Aston.
    Gail we lived at no 32 Clifton Road which was the other end to where Graham and Gary lived
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    raz ullah replied to the thread Clifton Road Aston.
    Hi Gail i new your dad Graham and also Gary from Aston i;m born and bred in Clifton Road , I new Gary as Gary Astley with blonde hair...
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    localmike replied to the thread Tolkien's Birmingham.
    In fact, when the area came into Birmingham it was in Sparkhill Ward, not Moseley and Kings Heath Ward: see map
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    A Sparks reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Birmingham Post & Mail with Appreciate Appreciate.
    F R Gillman with the original dog Chipper https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/chipper-club-celebrates-50-years-4708203
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    A Sparks reacted to Eric Gibson's post in the thread Birmingham Post & Mail with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I never did the Mail place the ball but dad did every time, he could put lots of crosses on it, never won a thing. I did one in Readers...
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    jukebox reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Twister Twisterer Warp Twister with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Twister: a textile industry worker who operated a machine for winding and twisting threads. Twisterer: variation on Twister, a machine...
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    MWS replied to the thread Harborne.
    Looking at the map it appears that lower part of Harborne Lane, the part that was in Worcestershire, was always Harborne Lane. The part...
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