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Diane Watts

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Email:
dianewatts@rogers.com

Submitted:
September 1999

Lived in:
1945 - 1963

Lived at:
Richmond Park Crescent

Attended:
Handsworth, then Athelstan and then Abbeydale Grammar School

Now lives:
Toronto, Canada and New York

Occupation:
Has a home furnishings store in Toronto, and a mirror manufacturing company

Remembers (people):
Nova Stamp(dentists daughter, house by the roundabout at the end of the Parkway. went to Abbeydale Grammar with me). Christine Thompson, Mr Askham, Miss Crookes, Peter Burkinshaw, Micheal Wells, David Evans, John Britton, Valerie Brammer, Keith Atkin, Diane Allchurch, Marie Yardy from Yardy's garage, David Pidcock.

Remembers (places):
A van knocking one of the finial balls off the school gate at Handsworth School, Coronation Day 1953 (still have my scissors). The Plaza Vimto at the Herb shop next to the Plaza.

Comments:
I would love to hear from anyone from that time. I left to go to Canada in 1967, and sadly never kept up with anyone from Handsworth.

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