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Warwickshire / Re: What is this street?
« on: Monday 03 March 08 19:15 GMT (UK) »
Francis Street which is now Great Francis Street,Duddeston Manor.
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Warwickshire / Re: Birmingham pub in 1881
« on: Tuesday 29 January 08 16:06 GMT (UK) »Hi RootsChatters,Hi Stovepipe..'Parade' is not a pub..its part of Summerhill in the centre of Birmingham..near the hall of memory.
In the 1881 census Alfred STREET (b. 1841, Petworth Sussex) and his wife Ann are living at 39 Parade, Birmingham. (RG11/2968/38/2)
Both have the occupation "Licensed Victualler".
I take it that means 39 Parade was a public house. Does anybody know its name?
Cheers,
Stovepipe
Derek.
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The Common Room / Re: The Sad Passing of PeterBennett (M)
« on: Saturday 08 December 07 20:37 GMT (UK) »
So very sad...my deepest sympathy.
Derek.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: "Children in Need"
« on: Sunday 18 November 07 10:16 GMT (UK) »230 hits and only 14 resposes (including mine)Hi Mudge..how kind and thoughtful of you
..don't worry about the response..your thoughts are being carried by others including these..a couple of our local girls giving their all for Children in Need...bless their hearts and yours. 
Derek.
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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Lest we forget
« on: Monday 12 November 07 08:09 GMT (UK) »Barbara...I took some pics of the scouts,cubs and girl guides there..very smart they were.....I felt very proud of them....pity I can't show them but I'm not allowed to.
Exactly Derek ........... who cares what the wrapping looked like, it's the thought that counts.
Barbara
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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Lest we forget
« on: Monday 12 November 07 07:58 GMT (UK) »
Our local youngsters just about to give their all for remembrance day..who cares what their hair looks like..they were there to remember along side their elders..thats the main thing....................very emotional.
Derek.
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Worcestershire / Re: Anyone from Balsall Heath?
« on: Saturday 20 October 07 19:53 BST (UK) »Okay can anyone help me? Derek - is that your website? Assuming you might be able to help me in that case.Hi spongebob...no its not my website..there's lots of history on Balsall Heath..type it into I E...it used to be in Worcestershire..but now in Birmingham..I know the area well but for the life of me..I can't think where the Wellington Inn is or was..the only one I know is in Handsworth.B'ham.
Derek.
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Worcestershire / Re: Anyone from Balsall Heath?
« on: Saturday 20 October 07 18:49 BST (UK) »You are right Spongebob - it is in Warwickshire, and very near to Edgbaston.Sorry but Balsall Heath is in Birmingham.
Derek.
Balsallheathhistory.co.uk
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Cumberland / Re: electrocution!!!
« on: Tuesday 09 October 07 20:20 BST (UK) »2 things.Bob...can't say I am related to a Brampton Weaving...all of mine are from Gloucestershire.
1 Derek are you related to a Brampton Weavings?
2 Around the 60's (and if you can remember them you weren't there, remember) there was an electrocution of a youth behind elterwater av. in workington but this was where he had climbed a pylon and hadn't realised just how far high voltage can jump.
I don't remember any more details and wouldn't even recall it except my grandparents lived on elterwater at the time and they lived there from about 1959.
Could this be a euphemised story of the poor boy being electrocuted but by being where he shouldn't have been?
bob
Derek.