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All Saints School 21/08/08 (FOSTER FAMILY)
ROSBERRY STREET 07/08/08
253rd Birmingham, 1st Brookfields
scout band 07/08/08 (this page)
Archway of tears 10/08/08
253rd Birmingham, 1st Brookfields Scout Band
07/08/08The 253rd Birmingham, 1st Brookfields scout band taking part at the Scout rally in Handsworth Park in July 1961, this was the best band in the land as they say.
Ken Grinnell kgrinnell55@hotmail.com
CAN YOU HELP
Would Pat or Arthur Edge who once owned PATS FASHIONS in ELLEN STREET please contact Jacqui Fielding email jacquishalom@hotmail.com
about the family tree. Ted 19/06/08
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I have only just found this site and the pictures and stories brought back a flood of memories. Two in particular related to my old school, Camden Street Primary which I attended in the 1948 - 54 period. The articles were posted some time ago by :bedders38@aol.com and johnsolomon6@aol.com
I have tried to contact them but their email addresses no longer seem to be active. I have lived in Melbourne, Australia for the past 40 years and would dearly like to catch up with these two people for a walk down memory lane. If you can help or know anyone who went to the school in that era i would love to hear from you at ejr227@hotmail.com Thanks Jeff Holloway" 02/05/08
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DO YOU HAVE ANY Brookfields PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WE COULD PUT ON THIS SITE ??
Schools, Church's, Parks, Pubs, Shops, Factories, Streets, People, Families Etc. Contact
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Tour the only remaining Back to Back houses in Birmingham the type many of us once lived in.
situated in
Hurst Street cnr Inge Street
Next to the Hippodrome Theatre
Well worth a visit
You will need to book your visit in advance
Booking line 0121 666 7671
click below for more information
There must be thousands of Back to Back stories and/or photographs out there If you have any please send them to us.
If we receive enough we will start a new page with them on.
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Pauline Joyce nee Busby, 8 Crabtree Road, Brookfields
your Email address was Buzza42@Hotmail.com what's your new one? Please get in touch with ted.rudge@btinternet.com
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George Street West on the left and right, Prescott Street going off to the left with Hingeston Street going straight up.
Ray Begley Email: rayb@rayb.net Thanks Ray for naming the roads
MURDER AT "THE LAURELS" 02/11/07
The murder happened in 1965? after an argument between the landlord and a customer. What I remember being told by my Father, who drank in the Laurels, was the customer pulled a knife and stabbed the landlord and then just ran from the pub being chased by the regulars. My father did say that the man who died was extremely well liked and the perpetrator received a good hiding before the police caught up with him. Sadly my father is no longer alive so I could not elaborate on the incident. I know that the mother of the Wyatt family who was a barmaid at the Laurels and who lived in the first house after the bookies on George St. West, which was not a back to back house, as they had two big rooms downstairs where you could go into the front and come out the back into the yard, was a witness to the incident. I am sure she had a pub or worked in a pub up by the police station adjacent to Summerfield park in Winson Green sometime after the area was demolished. The murder was reported in the "Birmingham Evening Mail", "The Gazette" and the "Sunday Mercury". Keep up the good works a fantastic site!!! Regards Larry Foley E-mail : laurencefoley@blueyonder.co.uk
I REMEMBER THE DAY IT HAPPENED 01/04/08
I enjoyed the piece about the Laurels Pub on the corner of Prescott Street and Hingestion Street. It was on a Saturday afternoon when it happened. I was at my Grandparents house (just of Lodge Road, in Harmer Street), when the murder happened. My Mother fetched me and told me about it. When we got home (we lived at 113 Prescott Street, just up from the Laurels), the place was swarming with police. We were told it was an argument about closing time. Supposedly the Publican said it was time to close for the afternoon, and the other person argued - I suppose a fight broke out It seems awful, but nobody bothered much. It seemed to be a case of 'oh well, another days excitement'. Not sure why but that's the way some people were then. We had some fun in those days. The only thing I didn't like was the thick fog. You couldn't see anything. It would be nice if I could find anyone else who remembers me and my friends - Christine Robinson and Pamela Holmes. The three of us were always together. Ingrid Waldron-Webb iggywebb@yahoo.com
ANOTHER MURDER 01/05/08
Reading about the MURDER at "THE LAURELS" pub in Hingeston Street I rememered another MURDER that took place at 131 Hingeston Street around 50 years ago (mid to late 50's).
The blokes name was Hanlon ! he killed his wife with a hammer because he thought she was having an affair, I remember the police swarming all over the back part of the house as I used to live in the same yard (back house) 8/125, I wonder if anyone else remembers it ??. Ken Grinnell kgbg03800@blueyonder.co.uk
BROOKFIELDS PRIMARY SCHOOL DECEMBER 2005
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253rd B,ham 1st Brookfields scout group band county champions 6 years running 1960's this was taken about 1967 in the playground of Camden street school.
Pictured, me second from right front row and next to me best mate Alan Williams
Photo thanks to Ken Grinnell kgbg03800@blueyonder.co.uk
BROOKFIELDS CRICKET TEAM
My dad and my granddad are pictured in
it and I played for them on two
occasions when I was 12 yrs old about 1959-60.
Photo thanks to Ken Grinnell kgbg03800@blueyonder.co.uk
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Does anyone remember the tv drama 'Cathy come Home'being filmed in and around the Prescott St area, i do.it was great we all hoped we would be filmed all us kids, it bought great exitement to the area at the time i recently bought the dvd and you can see clips of Prescott Street and families that took part in the filming Fay. Email: fbjingx@yahoo.co.uk 24/04/04
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01/12/05
I was born in Hingeston Street in the very early 50s I remember "Cathy come Home" being filmed in our yard and both my sisters are in the crowd as well as our house
I attended both Brookfields and Camden Street schools and in my teens hung about at the canal it was our playground you could go out freely then and enjoy being a child no real pressures
Gillian Robinson/ne Hutton Email: gillian robinson@banf.org.uk
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CAN YOU HELP??
I lived at No.1 Clissold Street, from 1948 to 1967, and like so many other people, never thought to take any photographs of "Our steet" before leaving.
If you could put out an appeal for anybody who has photos of Clissold Street and adjacent streets, I wouild be very grateful. Regards, Frank(Francis),Whelan See Franks full story under Clissold street
IF YOU FIND ANY BROOKFIELD PHOTOS WE WILL PUBLISH THEM
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AMALGAMATED SOCIETY
of
RAILWAY SERVANTS,
Hockely Branch
sometime pre 1913
Photo thanks to Mc Joseph
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I am interested in raising funds to re-establish Key Hill and Warstone Lane cemeteries.09/10/03
They are both is a state of disrepair, and the Council can only supply sufficient funds for leaf removal. Is there any one out there who would be intersted in this project. Carl Chinn has offered to be patron. Remember, most of the chaps that made Birmingham great are buried there, including George Dawson the preacher and John Baskerville. We cannot let these beautiful places turn to dust. We have the wonderful new Bull Ring, and the Jewelery Quarter has been made into a tourist attraction (quite rightly), yet the cemeteries within the Quarter are so dilapidated it beggars belief. Please e-mail me if you are interested in helping to raise funds.
Pauline Roberts Email: secserve@wilnecote.fsbusiness.co.uk
THE POSTCARD OF KEY HILL CEMETERY DATE ? THANKS TO MacJoseph
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