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Recent content by Richard Dye

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    Home Guard

    Great article Pete! Lots of positive Nationalism there, 500,000 over subscribed!
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    Radio

    I doubt it’s the same vehicle. The glazing is different! Possibly just to show what the interior would look like.
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    Bsa Factory In Blitz

    I did a Wikipedia I did a Wikipedia search on the M20, interesting read, including the bombings at BSA.
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    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    Phone, iPad and computer all working fine! Thank you…
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    Aston Cross and Villa Cross picture houses

    Never went to the Lyric, but the Palladium always seemed to have great flicks!
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    happy birthday bob davis

    Happy Birthday Bob, have a great day with many many more returns!
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    Our childhood toys

    Sorry about this!
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    Our childhood toys

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    Our childhood toys

    This is a Chatanooga Choo Choo! It is a part of the Chatanooga Mountain Valley Railroad. A couple of years ago for Christmas, our son and his wife gave us dinner (white linen tablecloths) on a two-hour train ride pulled by a sister locomotive. This was taken in the CMVR yard near the station.
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    Temporary churches, prefabricated churches, tin tabernacles, iron churches, iron chapels

    Back in the day, galvanizing was “hot dipped” tending to leave a thicker coating. Today most (not all) galvanizing is electro galvanizing which is basically a plating process. Electro galvanizing does work quite well, uses less material and is excellent for metalworking and takes paint very...
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    Our childhood toys

    Amazing how satisfied and pleased we were to get a single figure once in awhile. I collected Coldstream Guards on horseback (made out of lead and leaded paint) I wasn’t told they could make me sick so I didn’t.
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    Home made traditional food

    Today is Cinco Demayo you should be serving that with a margarita or Don Julio! Love those quesadillas….
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    Home made traditional food

    I think slow cooked or braised meats are the absolute best! Along with rice and macaroni pudding of course :) , maybe some bread pudding as well!
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    Then & Now

    What we call: “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” particularly photo 1. Thank you!
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Castellated, your great uncle maintained and refit the drive belts for the machinery. It was for the most part a critical job. Many of the belts “back in the day” had to be custom fit or they were even more dangerous. Usually there was a master drive belt from the power source which was more...
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