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  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Dionysius//88's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My parent's (RIP) were Irish they came over here in the 40's , seems funny to say but through my journey through life I always seemed to...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to boilerman's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sorry I'm a bit late to this thread, but my dad was Irish, and in the 50/60s we lived in Ladywood. I remember holding his hand as we...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to jim1uk2001's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    At 16 I never wanted to live any place but Small Heath. Now I don't like driving through it.
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to mikeconcannon's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hello Jim, I was born on Garrison Lane of Irish parents, myself and my brothers went to a catholic junior school, now it's not the...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Suzanneiom's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Thankyou ive updated their place of birth. I was hoping they were still in Birmingham.
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to jim1uk2001's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I grew up in the 60/70s in an Irish family. We lived in Sparkbook, Garrison Lane and Bordesley Green/Small Heath border. Nearly every...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Thankyou ive updated their place of birth. I was hoping they were still in Birmingham.
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 replied to the thread Birmingham Irish.
    Born in Aston in 1954 to my Irish parents, who were married at Saint Chad's Cathedral in 1948, a few months ago I did the Ancestry DNA...
  • Rob1abb
    Rob1abb reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Erdington postmen heroes remembered with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here we are folks. Lyn kindly sent me the video and I have cropped a few images.
  • Rob1abb
    Rob1abb reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Erdington postmen heroes remembered with Appreciate Appreciate.
    many of you will know the history of this postal memorial plaque...it had been sited at the NMA for 10 years but was removed a couple of...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom reacted to MWS's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Rudolph and family moved to Hertfordshire, where Teresa was born, Last sight of Christopher and his family and Teresa is Hertfordshire...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Rudolph and family moved to Hertfordshire, where Teresa was born, Last sight of Christopher and his family and Teresa is Hertfordshire...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to ellbrown's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It's already on BBC iPlayer, I watched it several nights ago. As it was previously broadcast on the 3rd February on BBC 1 West Midlands...
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Tonight on BBC 4 is a program about the Birmingham Irish Community. It presumably will later be on i[layer
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Good music to listen to on U Tube with Angry Angry.
    after nearly 2 years of running and nearly 2700 posts we have decided that this thread has now run its course..many thanks to all our...
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