Monthly Archives: October 2012

How It All Started – 50 Years of Progress

Posted on October 30, 2012 by davesdemolitiondiaries

John Edmund Coleman decided to leave his native home in Ballydorgan, Co. Cork, Ireland to seek a sustainable future in Birmingham, just before the outbreak of W.W.2. Here he met Nora Frances Staunton, who with similar ideas had left her … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Dave’s Demolition Diaries…..

Posted on October 15, 2012 by davesdemolitiondiaries

During the process of creating the 50th Anniversary book I was set the task of writing the Foreword. The brief was fairly broad in terms of content but the word limit was clear… “about 300 words, or half a page should … Continue reading →

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