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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 235578, member: 29&quot;]It&#039;s now a suburb of Birmingham which was bombed to smithereens as an industrial centre. As a dormitory town, the bombs which fell there were either misaimed or jettisoned. Very common. Eighty is actually pretty light. It looks like between the wars municipal housing, so working class. </p><p><br /></p><p>My grandfather, in his 70s by then, was a fireman in the London Blitz. Ma, an actress, in central London all the time, inlcuding dousing incendiary bombs on the roof of her theatre with a stirrup pump and water. London still finds bombs often, there was one not that far away in the last few weeks. </p><p><br /></p><p>Blokes here didn&#039;t do the bracelet thing until much later - it&#039;s terribly 1960s. The popular sweetheart item here was always a brooch for women, I see them by the hundred. They go way back, but the most common WW2 ones seem to be RAF. Some silver but a great many in mass produce brass and enamel. </p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever come across a civilian ID bracelet - and there&#039;s one other thing about this. If it were that, it ought to have the ID card number engraved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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