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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=215 BGCOLOR="#CC3366" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04106732dkcfyw.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0033CC" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>When you have FINISHED </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>HERE  </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>? </B></I></FONT><I><B>WHY NOT</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>visit </B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>the </B></I></FONT><I><B>web site next to ours </B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/macjoseph/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/macjoseph/"><I><B>Old Ladywood</B></I></A></div> <div> --------------------</div> <div> Our Site Updates</div> <div> can be found on the start pages of</div> <div>    <A HREF="_winson_green.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" WINSON GREEN">Winson </A><A HREF="_winson_green.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" WINSON GREEN">Green</A>   and <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BROOKFIELDS">Brookfields</A></div> <div> -----------------</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="39596d90.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="217" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> BRUMROAMIN</div> <div> <B>by TED RUDGE</B> </div> <div> <B> The story of  Romany Gypsies from </B></div> <div> <B>"THE</B></div> <div> <B><U> </U></B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial" ><B><U>BLACK</U></B></FONT><B> PATCH</B></div> <div> £11-95 UK <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>details  from </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330099" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:ted.rudge@btinternet.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:ted.rudge@btinternet.com">ted.rudge@btinternet.com</A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>**************************</B></div> <div> Material on this website is subject to copyright. Items may be downloaded for personal use only and not for any financial gain or commercial publications </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> To the best of my knowledge all the photographic and written material on this site has the permission of its owner to be here. If this is not the case I offer my apologies and promise to make amends. </div> <div> Winsongreentobrookfields is non profit making we only aim to preserve the memories, whether it be written or photographic, of both Winson Green and Brookfields.</div> <div> Please note any views expressed on this website are those of the sender and not necessarily shared by the website owner</div> <div> ************************************</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> The aim of this site is to collect any information in the form of </div> <div>  History</div> <div> Personal Stories</div> <div> Photographs</div> <div> Maps</div> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact ">Contact </A> </div> <div> That could be posted on this site to tell the next generation about. </div> <div> <B><U>THE WAY WE WERE</U></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 style=" border-bottom: 1px solid #CC6699;" BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>WINSON GREEN to BROOKFIELDS</B></div> <div> (This site began on the 20th February 2002)  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" >Thank you for your continued support.</FONT></div> <div> <B>BIRMINGHAM,  ENGLAND.</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=385 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" >The aim of this site is to collect  information in the form of </FONT><U>History-</U> <U>Personal Stories-</U> <U>Photographs-</U> <U>Maps  </U><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Arial" >to tell the next generation </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#003300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact ">THE WAY WE WE</A>RE</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>WELCOME</B></div> <div> <B>to the</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>click to enter></B></FONT><A HREF="_winson_green.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" WINSON GREEN"><B>WINSON </B></A><A HREF="_winson_green.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" WINSON GREEN"><B> </B></A><A HREF="_winson_green.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" WINSON GREEN"><B>GREEN</B></A><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> and  </B></FONT><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BROOKFIELDS"><B>BROOKFIELDS</B></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B><</B><B>click to enter</B></FONT></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>WEB SITE</B></FONT></div> <div> <B><U>BIRMING</U></B><B><U>HAM     </U></B><B><U>EN</U></B><B><U>GLAND   </U></B></div> <div> =======================================</div> <div> <B>"Solve your Christmas presents"</B></div> <div> <B>with</B></div> <div> <B>My new books and Calendar </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="c47902e0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="558" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> NEW -  NEW -  NEW -  NEW - NEW -  NEW</div> <div> <B>This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Ladywood and the area have changed and developed over the last century</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c2a5ef20.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="498" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="c2c5ef20.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="498" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                         </div> <bR> <div> <B>                                                      and</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which </B><B>the area of </B><B>Winson Green to Brookfields has changed and developed over the last century</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="c2e5ef20.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="498" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="c305ef20.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="498" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>and</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="bc263ef0.jpg" border=0 width="355" height="495" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="c3c5cef0.jpg" border=0 width="348" height="495" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Each book £12-99 + £1-50 p&p </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2010 calendar </B><B> £5 + £1p&p</B></div> <div>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#990033" FACE="Arial" >a local photo for each month</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#990033" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Any book and Calendar together for  </FONT><U>£20</U> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >includes p&p</FONT></div> <div> to a <U>UK</U> address</div> <div> to order from</div> <div>   Ted Rudge,118 Cropthorne Road, Shirley,</div> <div>  West Midlands, B90 3JJ</div> <div>   or </div> <div> <U>email</U> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >ted.rudge@btinternet.com </FONT></div> <div>                                 </div> <div> **********************************</div> <div> Two "thank you" emails received</div> <div> ************************************</div> <div> THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#990033" FACE="Arial" > TED . . . </FONT>A GREAT TRIBUTE TO THE GREEN</div> <bR> <div> Congratulations Ted on your latest book “Winson Green to Brookfields” My word it brought back some memories I can tell you. For me it was almost a personal family photograph album.</div> <div> Apart from say half a dozen photographs there isn’t another photo in there that doesn’t bring back some memory from the past. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> For instance there on page 46 was that great old factory “Joseph Lucas” where as a youngster I lived right next door to at Number 1/21 Burberry Street. I remember it vividly as every night German areoplanes would drop their incendiary bombs in an effort to stop war time production. I together with my family and next door neighbours would be down in the damp musty cellar listening to them as they screamed down out of the sky. My parents would try and drown the noise out by playing some old Glenn Miller records on a wind up gramophone. Next morning on my way to school I would go shrapnel hunting to swap for lead soldiers from my schoolmates.</div> <div> On page 51 it shows Icknield Street and the overhead railway bridge but what caught my eye was the builders “Blackwells” It was the first job I had on leaving school at fifteen. I remember on a freezing snow covered cold January morning arriving there to start work.( My mother had arranged all this for me a couple of nights before in the local pub “The Bulls Head” on the corner of Icknield Street, apparently she knew the builder Joe Blackwell.) I was put to work for eight hours pushing a wheelbarrow the size of a Sherman tank full of wet sand up some slippery entry of a back to back house. I stuck it for two days then packed it in and found work for myself elsewhere. </div> <bR> <div> "Winson Green to Brookfields through time"  </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> BY TED RUDGE  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><U>£12-99 + 1-50p&p</U></FONT></div> <bR> <div>  Also in your wonderful book I found my childhood school All Saints which was also the church where I was married, much later on of course, plus “The Hydraulic” public house where I held my wedding reception. I remember that quite well as I had a problem trying to find eight pounds to pay the small band I had hired. It was solved when my Uncle Stan slipped me a tenner as he hadn’t had the time to look for a present.</div> <div> As I turned the pages the memories flooded back with every photo: Bishop Latimers church where my son Scott was christened: The Abbey Vaults where we celebrated my sisters divorce coming through: Spring Hill library where they had a few bob off me for the late return of their books and so on and so on. Then finally on page 25 it shows Lodge Road. In this picture it shows the actual house where my brother Len and his family lived for many years.</div> <div> So like I said at the start of this story, your book is in a way my own family album and hopefully I will be able to show my own grandchildren and point out that this was where your Mom and Uncle Scott was born and lived for most of their childhood.</div> <div> Thanks Ted for so many wonderful memories and I look forward to your next venture.</div> <div> ERIC TAYLOR<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >erica.taylor@btinternet.com</FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> to order by post from</div> <div>   Ted Rudge,118 Cropthorne Road, Shirley,</div> <div>  West Midlands, B90 3JJ</div> <div>   or </div> <div> <U>email</U> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >ted.rudge@btinternet.com</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >                       </FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >                </FONT></div> <div> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="4aa96b10.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="177" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  Material on this website is subject to copyright. Items may be downloaded for personal use only and not for any financial gain or commercial publications </div> <div> To the best of my knowledge all the photographic and written material on this site has the permission of its owner to be here. If this is not the case I offer my apologies and promise to make amends. </div> <div> Winsongreentobrookfields is  non profit making we only aim to preserve the memories, whether it be written or photographic, of both Winson Green and Brookfields.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Please note any views expressed on this website are those of the sender and not necessarily shared by the website owner</B></div> <div> <B>****************************************************************************************************************</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>