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    Donbogen reacted to Lemonella's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2026 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We have lots of small bees on our salvias. Hardly any butterflies but its early yet.
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    Donbogen reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread IN OUR GARDENS 2026 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    If you want to see wasps, go to Coles Lane Sutton Coldfield, house before the gully to Ebrook Rd - there is a HUGE wasps next hanging...
  • Morturn
    Thank you Morturn for this pic it takes me back quite some years,, two colleagues that featured in my apprenticeship in the 60's lived...
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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Ephraim Phillips Ltd with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here are two photographs of Ephraim Phillips from another thread, and a drawing of the factory c1920
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    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Yes. that's right. He also had at least one brother and one sister and another half brother.
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    MWS reacted to Smash's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There's so many Alfreds so Edwin George Hicken had a half brother called Alfred and then went on to have a son called Alfred
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    Smash replied to the thread Hicken family.
    There's so many Alfreds so Edwin George Hicken had a half brother called Alfred and then went on to have a son called Alfred
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread 208 Great Russell Street, Hockley.
    It look like court 36 was behind 208 (entrance between 206 & 207) and court 35 was behind 203/204. Is the address place of birth or...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Edwin George's father George died when Edwin was young and his mother Hannah (nee Curtis) married a Thomas Buckingham and they had a son...
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    Smash replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Thank you! ☺️
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    Smash reacted to MWS's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Alfred's father was called Edwin George.
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Alfred's father was called Edwin George.
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    MWS reacted to Smash's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oh wow, he married 2 Elsie's and lost a son! I don't know how many other Alfreds there were previous but my grandad was at the 3rd. I...
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    Smash replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Oh wow, he married 2 Elsie's and lost a son! I don't know how many other Alfreds there were previous but my grandad was at the 3rd. I...
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    Smash reacted to MWS's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Alfred Morris Hicken was born in Budbroke, Warwickshire in 1898, died 1965. He was married previously to Elsie Laura Pignutt and had a...
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