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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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    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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    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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    Bradford street

    When i worked in Rea Street South,72/73,i often used to walk down to digbeth on my lunch break,saw a few cast members during those times,notably Ronald Allen. And has been pointed out,The Castaways was indeed the club.
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    Avenue Street

    That could easily be The Avenue,on the corner of Avenue Road,and Aston Road North, now no longer in existence. I'm sure the flats in the distance are the same ones in one of your Rocky Lane pictures.
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    Cheston Street Aston

    Thats Chester street,and the old M.E.B building going down to,and around the corner of Rocky Lane
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    Growing Up In Brum - Roy Blakey Inspired.

    Cotton reel tanks,thanks for the pictures,and the memories,made many of those in the past.
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    Software Suggestion

    https://www.freewarefiles.com/category_8_88.html One of these should do the trick.
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    Windows 10

    Looks very much like the back,and sometimes front of my computer,what with driving sims,and Elite Dangerous,i have a flight stick,and a steering wheel,the latter on a stand,keeps me out of trouble though,so all is good.
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    Birmingham's Image And Status

    https://independent-birmingham.co.uk/blogs/fifty-reasons-to-stay-away-from-birmingham/
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