Aviary

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Hi Everyone
a memory of mine has just come through the system, do any of you remember when people used to build aviary's in the front room by the side of the chimney breast, my mate had an aviary in the front room which was full of chaffinch's, when i told my wife she looked at me as if i was making it up!  i must admit i have not seen that sort of thing for a long while.
Regards Barry

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Bary,
      I think I can go one better, my Dad built a Monkey cage in our alcove. It was a vervet monkey from Sth Africa, and we called him Jacksie ,
    ah bless .
                 Ed

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Hi , Ed    My cousin  said my grandad brought back a pet monkey when he was in the merchant navy, in  the 1940s, they all lived in a two up two down, in chapel st stratford e15 ,  my grandad grandmother they had 11 kids ,she said the monkey used to nick my aunts earrings, he used to pull them off her ears, the monkey was a victim of one of Hitlers bombs, it was killed when a bomb was dropped on Langthorne St, it was in the outside toilet at the time?   By the 1950 s my mums house was gone , the pub was still there the Globe which was next door to my mums house , give me all the old houses any day and the fogs, better than a load of over priced shops( Nudge Nudge)
Barry