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Recent content by Richard Dye

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    Its Michaelwicks birthday

    Happy Birthday Michael, enjoy your day with many more happy returns!
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    Groups We Have Seen Live

    Twice in one year, wow!
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    Tangye Brothers Engineers

    About what year was that photo taken?
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    Groups We Have Seen Live

    When we lived in NJ our neighbors who moved there from Las Vegas were friends of Fleetwood Mac. We lived on a cul de sac and our properties boarded one another. We did get to meet them briefly at a small cook out bbq sans all the glitter. Did not know what to expect but they were far nicer than...
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    Digbeth Coach Station.

    According to Wikipedia/Google, National Express started in 1972. National bus company in 1969. NBC took the Name NEC in 1972.
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    Nostalgia

    Very well said! I think that most families lived within themselves, not all but more than today. We/I knew what my lot was and for the most part lived within, not that we did not have aspirations of grandeur! If you just look in a modern kitchen, microwave, ice maker (ours makes craft ice), 8...
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    Nostalgia

    So very very true! We look at our grandchildren who we love dearly, they have no idea of what we dealt with. They are all embroiled is the here and now, and to be fair that’s what we did! However it would be a great learning experience for them to look back 50 years and see the revolutionary...
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    Birmingham Screwdriver Company Digbeth

    I used to start screws with a hammer (never a joiner) now I have self drilling screws on a battery powered portable drill with a very nice led light and magnetic screw holder. How easy is that, sorry off topic!
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    Birmingham Screwdriver Company Digbeth

    I like, I remember it now. Have heard that in a LONG time!
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    Birmingham Screwdriver Company Digbeth

    Thank you, I know that! I think I need a bigger shot of caffeine :)
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    Birmingham Screwdriver Company Digbeth

    Still not getting it! Must be old timers disease :)
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    Old street pics..

    And those were the good old days (at least it seemed), sneaking in without paying regardless of the picture!
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    Tangye Brothers Engineers

    Wonderful memorabilia!
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    Subscription Trial

    I just subscribed, not so much fore the add free but ease of donating from the US. Thank you!
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    For those interested in Black country History

    At least they are not tearing down that magnificent structure!
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