Harry’s Home Page
Jackie and Harry
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!
Sang
with this choir in the sixties when we won the eisteddfod at Kerry
Click
on the Picture's
Birmingham Sites WARD END Tarmac
www.birminghamwords.co.uk www.thebull-pricestreet.com Birmingham History Forum
Brummies
United
www.muckas-in-brum.co.uk Birmingham History
www.astonbrook-through-astonmanor.co.uk www.webbaviation.co.uk Bromford Races
www.birminghamheritage.org.uk www.bplphoto.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummagem
www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk
www.bhx.co.uk
Birmingham Photos ( google )
http://www.pbase.com/beppuu 
picture's
by Keith Berry
http://billdargue.jimdo.com/
Take a look
Good Pictures on Dave’s site 
Artist Josie Richardson
harry.deakin@blueyonder.co.uk
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