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    Soho Road Handsworth

    Anyone know if a record shop possibly called The Record Shop, in or around Soho Road run by Kathleen and Peter Deeley ?
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    Chance Glassworks Bicentenary event

    Keith, was your father Len Bracey?
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    HELP WANTED PLEASE

    I think RHU is Reinforcement Holding Unit. They were formed after 1944 so that coincides with date next to RHU https://www.researchingww2.co.uk/ww2-abbreviations-acronyms/ https://www.researchingww2.co.uk/ww2-abbreviations-acronyms/...
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    Hollick & Taylor recording studio

    The studios are alive and well and last time I saw Chris Taylor he was Take That’s musical director https://www.grapevinebirmingham.com/birminghams-oldest-recording-studios/
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    Snow Hill Station

    I was an avid spotter at both Snow Hill and Shrewsbury in 1959 (the year of the picture) even got to drive the station pilot in the yard at Snow Hill! I never once saw a King at Shrewsbury or a King on the Cambrian Coast which usually had an engine change at Shrewsbury, from a manor to a Castle...
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    Anne Heywood (Violet Pretty) Book Project

    My understanding that Anne was also an Usherette at both Stockland Green and Erdington cinemas
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    'Flying Flea' airplane - Small Heath

    If you’re interested in Fleas! https://www.a-e-g.org.uk/the-flying-flea.html
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    Snow Hill Station

    Perhaps is the epitaph of history
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    Snow Hill Station

    Possibly because it went unservicable working the Inter City to Wolverhampton or Swindon didn’t have space and Wolverhampton did
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    Snow Hill Station

    The reason being it was shedded at Plymouth and was very rarely seen in the Midlands, it’s also pretty rare to see a King hauling the Cambrian Coast, it was normally a Castle turn in 1959. All in all good chance King John was off maintenance at Wolverhampton perhaps and working back via Old Oak.
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    Rankin Sidecars

    As a matter of interest how many sidecar manufacturers were there in Birmingham? Obviously Watsonian were the most well known.
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    Lordswood Boys' Technical School

    You mentioned some names in an earlier post, most likely the swimming team 3 of whom were in my class or year. It was MICHEAL Maunder, ROGER Sansom and ROD Stanley. They were all in the team the year the Gala was held in the now demolished Kent Street Baths. Rod Stanleys father owned the...
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    Lordswood Boys' Technical School

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    Lordswood Boys' Technical School

    Kindon had a black Austin Somerset, I remember that!
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    Castle Bromwich Spitfire Factory

    Excellent Vid but what the presenter left out was the fact that the Merlin engine went on to power post war airliners such as the Avro York and the disastrous Tudor. Probably best known were the Merlin powered North Stars, named Argonauts by BOAC and some were sold on to British Midland,one of...
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