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How Things Have Changed

Approach to The Aboretum 1967 Ref: W161017
Approach to The Aboretum 1967
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oh mi how things have changed in this photograph i was 12 then 40 yrs on it was so peacefull then arbo has we called it i can remember going there during school holidays. we be there all day with our bottle water and our jam sandwiches we wouldnt go home till dusk or till the man came round with the whistle telling you he shutting the gates oh what fun then we go to the old sweet shop on lichfield road before we caught the trolly bus home. it has know changed it so busy everyone seems to be in a rush and of cause the sweetshop been pulled down so have many of the shops but i have lovely memories off this.

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A memory of Walsall in West Midlands shared on Monday, 17th September 2007.

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