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Recent content by JudiM

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    Birmingham's Working Horses

    Cobs are great. Hardy & strong. Mine had some of the cob musculature going on - and big feet!
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    Birmingham's Working Horses

    That sounds like a good deal!
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    Birmingham's Working Horses

    Yes, a grass kept horse or pony will require very little in the way of supplementary feeding when there is plenty of grass but it's the other costs that creep up. Where I kept mine, the monthly rent paid to the landowner included him putting hay out in the winter months (and in drought periods...
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    Birmingham's Working Horses

    British natives will do fine in our weather as long as there is some shelter from strong winds & driving rain - a good tall hedge for instance. Unless we have extremely out of the ordinary, or out of season, cold, they'll be just fine. They will have thick winter costs adapted to keep them...
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    Castle Street

    I think there could have been an answer in this thread, but the photos have gone - https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/van-allen-clothes-shops.10597/post-306867
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    Castle Street

    I was wondering that, but I'm not sure. The Pavilions went up in the later 80's, after the Co-op was demolished. I don't remember being able to cut through all the way down to Moor Street before then, which I'm sure I would have done as I came into Town usually on the train to & from Moor...
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    Castle Street

    Castle Street as it was a couple of days ago. When did it get blocked off? I can certainly remember the entrance to the hairdressers who's sign is still there, but not sure if it was open all the way to Moor Street in my lifetime.
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    Birmingham museum and art gallery.

    I used to love the Natural History department. Was always my first ports of call as a child & as an adult too. I was really disappointed when the department went. I know some specimens got damaged by flooding, so they must have taken the decision to revamp that area entirely.
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    Lawton ltd

    My dad worked there too. From his teens possibly until he was made redundant when they closed in early 80's. He became the maintenance engineer so would often work when the factory was in shutdown in the summer to overhaul & service the plant. He'd often go in on a Saturday too & I'd go with...
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    Gas Street basin

    Different angle, but how it looks today - well a couple of years ago when I took the picture!
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    Gas Street basin

    Fabulous picture. Love that it's still recognisibly the same place.
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    Gas Street basin

    I'd always thought that it was called Gas Street because it was the first Birmingham street to be lit with gas lamps. Don't know where I heard that from (probably in a book a long time ago). It would make sense that the first lamps would be there if it was adjacent to Gas works.
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    Old street pics..

    Just Just love the little face peeking out between the sides of meat in the left hand window. Wonder if he was the shop's boy who wanted to get in on the photo, but wasn't important enough to stand with the family group outside?
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    Curzon Street Railway Station

    Maybe they can incorporate son It would make a great exhibition space.
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    Elmdon Hall

    I spotted onr by my house (Frankley) a couple of years ago. Looks like they are spreading North from the established colonies round London.
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