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            Harry and Jackie Deakin            Deakin coat of arms                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Birmingham coat of arms

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I was born in Nechells, Birmingham in 1941 at 44 Elliot Street. In 1943 we got bombed out of there and spent a short time in a flat in Yardley on Stony Lane. After that we moved to Morris Road, Ward End, and I’ve lived in Ward End ever since. My first school was Ingleton Road Infants and Juniors and my senior school was Sladefield Secondary Modern. In 1957 I started work at a place called Ward End Timber Supply in Ward End, Birmingham. It was situated in a building called Cock Sparrow Hall although there wasn't much left of the original building. The owners were the Janes brothers, Wilf and Les. Some of the happiest years of my life were spent working here. You had to do everything from lighting the fire, and making the tea to cutting up the biggest logs on the ground, and some of them were big! This yard held the record for many years of being able to accommodate big logs, some as big as six foot in diameter. A boring job was called sticking! After the logs were cut, which could have been planked or quarter sawn, you had to place each board on a row of sticks and it stayed like that for about three years. Some of the types of timber we cut were Oak, Ash, Elm, and Beech, and they all came from Packington Woods. The Janes brothers had all the cuttings rights to these woods. Cutting could be dangerous, not just due to the obvious dangers! Sometimes you could hit a piece of shrapnel, a piece of metal from an exploded bomb, which had stuck in the tree, so before cutting we had to go over the tree with a metal detector. Happy Days!

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   Click on the Picture's                           Sang with this choir in the sixties when we won the eisteddfod at Kerry

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Birmingham Sites

www.birmingham.org.uk             www.birminghamwords.co.uk                          www.thebull-pricestreet.com

www.webbaviation.co.uk             www.birminghamheritage.org.uk                    www.muckas-in-brum.co.uk                   

www.bhx.co.uk                              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummagem      Birmingham Photos ( google )

www.bplphoto.co.uk                     www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk                        www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham        Brummies United

www.birminghamnet.co.uk           www.virtualbrum.co.uk                         

http://tinyurl.com/e5jrr http://www.harryx.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/hand_left.gif wonderful picture's by Keith  Berry

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