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    Cincinnati, Kingsbury Road.

    She also lived on Park Lane. Her daughter, Betty now Townsend also still lives in Park Lane.
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    Windows 10

    I played Donky Kong!
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    It's Lloyd's birthday

    Happy Birthday Lloyd with many happy returns, enjoy your day!
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Why would someone let that building deteriorate like that?
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    Handsworth Dairies

    Interesting note regarding Tetra-pack, two people one a phd the other an EE (who gave me the biggest opportunity in my life) were are Tetra-pack US in the 80’s and 90’s and were responsible for many product patents and process improvements there. They used many of the process flow, HMI...
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    Birmingham horse drawn buses

    All wonderful photos, very nostalgic (at least for me).
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    VERY
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Dry much so!
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    Gravelly Hill

    The road looks quite narrow with cars running both ways!
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    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    Running VERY well & quick! Thank you!
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    City Centre Photographs

    Jay, good luck with your research and welcome to The Forum, enjoy!
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    Lodge Rd Hockley (the Flat)

    Thank you! That’s 196 to 280 people depending upon occupancy. That is a lot of people, it’s a large site but very high density.
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    can you place any forum issues in here after the rebuild

    Things, systems seem very good today (in the US), thank you!
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    Lodge Rd Hockley (the Flat)

    Lyn, do you know by chance when the block of flats were built & how my people occupied it? I remember Lodge Rd and am wondering where all of those people shopped and how many had cars? At the end of 1962 when I left there were more and more cars and parking was becoming very problematic, sorry...
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    Evacuation Of Children World War 2

    80 years on we have some friends that live less than a mile from where I am sitting now ( we are friends of their two daughters), the wife who is 94 was born in Redditch (I think) and was evacuated to South Wales. Her husband was born in the US and every summer they would take their two...
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