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    School Dinners

    Hey, Morturn, was that Erdington Boys?, how you described the dining arrangement is exactly how i remember it. Cheese Souffle was amazing, i adored it, take care, and Merry Christmas,
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    Austin Village, Turves Green

    Lived on Hawkesley drive for a couple of years in the late 70's, modernish times, but still to me seemed a million miles away from Aston, so calm peaceful and was a joy to be there, loved walking down the local papershop of a Sunday morning, like a gentle country walk.
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    Bankrupt Birmingham!

    https://unherd.com/2020/09/the-plot-against-mercia/?s=09 as a history forum i found this interesting.
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    I loved crossovers, first pair of shoes i bought in Leicester in1979 when i moved there.
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Yes it was, i knew a lad that worked there, and have been on the premise's myself changing cutting wheels, with my gaffer at that time, 1971 if i remember correctly. Pearce's were metal spinner's primarily. And i often walked home to Hubert street from St Mary's in Whitehouse Street up Chester...
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    Gas Holders in Birmingham

    Walking up Avenue Road always seemed so foreboding, even in the daytime, sad it's all gone though.
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    The Four Provinces

    I went to a function there just the once, a Saint Patrick's night's do. Went with my grandmother, a cousin, and a few Irish pal's from Balsall Heath, was a cracking night out, 1974/5, not sure, too many beer's.
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    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    Used to collect the family allowance for my mom from Aston Manor Post Office many many year's ago now, also had a saving's account there when i first started work, that never amounted to a sight though. Last went in there in 1972, wow that went by pretty quickly.
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    Wimpy Bars in Birmingham

    I actually thought the Wimpy i used just the once was further up towards Corporation Street, on the opposite side of New Street, could easily be mistaken though.
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    History West Midlands Podcast - Cholera and clean water in the Black Country

    Just came across this, not had time to watch it all yet myself.
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    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-61995128 pretty interesting
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    sayings

    Just taking 2 of my grandchildren to school, a bus came along the road toward's us, and into my head popped billy bus, was this common in Brum?, just a children,s thing, or just peculiar to my family and younger sibling,s.
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    Group photos

    Seen, but not heard.
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    CD/DVD External Drive

    https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8240398?clickSR=slp:term:external%20dvd%20writer:1:3:1 I use this one, had it for about 10 month's, does the job.
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    Computer Help Please.

    https://www.thetechlounge.com/best-bluetooth-adapter/
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