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Don't know if someone else has said this but we used to call that grocery store "the Mill Stores" and I believe that it was run by...
Oct 2, 2026
Hi Lesley60, and yes happy days indeed.
I've absolutely no doubt that we would both have had fun on that same rope ... plus it seems...
Oct 2, 2026
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My Great Great Grandparents lived on Howe Street in the 1840's and at least half of the 1850's. His name was Thomas William Wilkins and...
Oct 2, 2026
viv you are quite correct on everything you have said but its a lot bigger than i first thought taking in numbers 54 to 57 and goes...
Oct 2, 2026
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I went into a little used email account yesterday. In Junk-mail I found 10 emails (assorted dates) all telling me my TV licence payment...
Oct 2, 2026
I went into a little used email account yesterday. In Junk-mail I found 10 emails (assorted dates) all telling me my TV licence payment...
Oct 2, 2026
viv you are quite correct on everything you have said but its a lot bigger than i first thought taking in numbers 54 to 57 and goes...
Oct 2, 2026
Michael Vaughan was my father's best man at his wedding and I worked at the forge during a summer vacation in the late 1970s. The family...
Oct 2, 2026
An interesting article from today's online Birmingham Dispatch...
Oct 2, 2026
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Michael Vaughan was my father's best man at his wedding and I worked at the forge during a summer vacation in the late 1970s. The family...
Oct 2, 2026
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what an awful thing to happen...poor man
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Oct 2, 2026
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Hi
I remember visiting this forge? In 1980 and not long after, the managing director Michael Vaughan killed himself by putting his head...
Oct 2, 2026
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Same as I had in post 13. I later got a genuine message thanking me for renewing
Oct 2, 2026
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The house I grew up in during the 50's and 60's was on a flightpath for starlings flying into the city for the night. The sky was black...
Oct 2, 2026
lesley60 reacted to EX-BRUMMIE's post in the thread Stonehouse Lane, California / Quinton with
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Don't know if someone else has said this but we used to call that grocery store "the Mill Stores" and I believe that it was run by...
viv you are quite correct on everything you have said but its a lot bigger than i first thought taking in numbers 54 to 57 and goes...
I went into a little used email account yesterday. In Junk-mail I found 10 emails (assorted dates) all telling me my TV licence payment...