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    Auxiliary Fire Service

    That's my uncle, I wish I could find out more about him.
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    Birmingham on Sea

    New Dolphin Square Sailing
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    Birmingham on Sea

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    Windows 10

    Windows 10, I like it! My laptop came with 6GB memory, but Windows 7 32 bit limited it to 3.5GB. Now with Windows 10 I have 5.5GB memory and I've installed Chrome 64 bit beta, so much faster browsing.
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    Bomb damage photos of WW2

    Do you know the house numbers here? My uncle died after a bomb in 275 Cateswell Road.
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    Mainwaring William

    Actually FamilySearch is wrong as well, the record you found is on Sub-District 8, FamilySearch says it's Sub-District 4. I looked through the whole of Sub-District 4 on Ancestry! There seems to be a lot of transcription errors on Ancestry.
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    Mainwaring William

    Re: William Mainwaring Wow, thanks. How did you do that?
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    Mainwaring William

    Hi, FamilySearch shows my gt gt grandad in 1861, but I can't find the record on Ancestry.co.uk to find the others on the census :disgust: Name: Wm Mainwaring Event Type: Census Event Date: 1861 Gender: Male Age: 25 Relationship to Head of Household: Head Birthplace...
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    Birmingham on Sea

    If you zoom in on the picture you can see someone stood in front of the new grey/white building. I wonder what's in it? Edit: It's a temporary boathouse according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnbeck_Pier
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    Birmingham on Sea

    Taken yesterday. Weird.
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    Birmingham on Sea

    Last Sunday Log flume (instead of wheel) and new Premier Inn (Part of new Dolphin Square development) Tutto Restaurant From a distance :pride: The Market now empty :blue:
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    Birmingham on Sea

    Not sure if this will work, this is a panoramic picture I made from 7 photos. On the right they're finishing off the demolishion of Sands nightclub, on the left is the sea (not very often you see it!).
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    Firefighters Medal

    Interesting, William Hair Haseler (1822-1909) was my gt gt grandfather, a jeweler he would have been 85 in 1907.
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    Griffiths Arthur b1860

    Re: Arthur Griffiths b1860 I found it by looking through the wills at the library. Oct-Nov-Dec 1948 Age 88 Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire, 7a, 425 Still can't find his birth :010:
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    Griffiths Arthur b1860

    I'm searching for any descendants of Arthur Griffiths a Brass Caster married Ada Florence Mainwaring in 1883. I can't find his death in FreeBMD or Ancestry, but the last record of him is I've found is in 1939 living at 163 Warwick Road, Sparkhill. His children were Ada Florence (1883 married...
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