Django
and Segovia?
? Ah... now you're talking...!
BTW, I sent you a private e-mail earlier, but maybe you've not read it yet...
It went:
"I saw your profile on
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/people2.htm and so your comments about Belgium etc. clicked into place! I see also that you were born in Jan 1944, so you're older to me by 3 months! But that you went to Clifton Road and Dennis Road schools causes me to ask you whether the name 'John Biddle' rings a bell with you. In my teens he was a good mate of mine, but we lost touch ca. 1965. He was brought up in Clifton Road and I met him when we both turned up at Bordesley Green Technical School in '58.
Actually, the area where you appear to have been brought up was populated by a lot of LERWILLs in the 19th c. - particularly around Ladypool Road. There's a pub at the Clifton Road/Ladypool Road junction that was run by a 2 x great uncle of mine once upon a time.
Talking about cycling, there was a former British Olympics cyclist (1940s period) who had a shop in Kings Heath. I bought two bikes from him over a 20-year period - can't remember his name offhand, but I'm pretty sure he appeared on TV not too long back."
And then I say your posting on an other topic about Tommy Godwin, and, of course it was he that I was talking about! Glad to see he was such a hlep to you!