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    Beat Girl - Real Rock'n'roll

    Hi all I've been watching channel 81 "Talking Pictures" and recently saw the film "Beat Girl" 1959...what a fabulous soundtrack! The John Barry 7 were really good - there's some rock'n'roll classics on this - here'e the theme tune which recurs throughout the film (later covered by the Damned...
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    Watched Threads

    Does the little pair of specs next to a post title in the list mean that someone is reading that thread???
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    British Pathe Film Catalogue Released To Youtube

    Hello all Not particularly to do with Birmingham, but the entire British Pathe newsreel catalogue (85,000 films) has just been relased via Youtube. As would be expected, there's lots of historical material from the last 70 years of the 20th century. Something for everyone HERE. Enjoy S23...
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    BCT bus routes to Ward End 1960's.

    Just been looking at Horsencart's Fare Stages etc. thread - it got me thinking - when I was a child in the early 1960's living in Warstock we used to visit relatives who lived on Washwood Heath Road just opposite a pub (think it was the Swan, just down from Lime Tree Rd.). We used to go on the...
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    Who remembers the "Miskin Men"?

    My Mom still calls the dustbin a "miskin" and the bin-collectors "miskin men". Is the word still in common use in Brum? I understand it's a really old term dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, being used to describe a dung-heap as early as the 900s. "Miskin men" were night-soil collectors - not a...
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    Aerial Photographs - Britain From Above

    This should be worth a look - it's an archive of old aerial photographs. Have fun. https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch/advanced
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    Midland Red Depot - Bull Ring Centre

    Hi - I was walking down Dudley Street the other day and passed the old Midland Red Garage. It looks as if it's been incorporated into the new Debenham's building. I remeber how the enclosed bus depot used to fill up with diesel exhaust fumes :sour: and how you could go through into the...
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    New online archive

    Hi all - Network Rail has just put up a new online archive of historic railwayania (documents, plans, drawings and photographs) here: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/virtualarchive/ . As yet, there is very little content but the archivist is busy populating the site so expect some Birmingham...
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    Found an interesting old bike website

    ....It's here: https://www.classicbikersclub.com/ A good read - there's some nice articles on old British bikes but also some "foreigners" as well. Have fun.
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    Birmingham Industrial Exhibition Broad Street

    Does anyone remember what I think was an Industrial Centre or Exhibition (not to be confused with the Museum of Science & Industry in Newhall st) next to the Birminham Municipal Bank building at the end of Broad Street opposite the Hall of Memory? I remember going in there in the late 1960s...
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    Events at Embassy Sportsdrome, Walford Rd.

    Edit - this thread is about events held at the Embassy. There’s a thread exclusively about roller skating at the Embassy on the thread here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/embassy-roller-rink-walford-road.3431/ Anyone remember the Embassy Sportsdrome in Walford Road or...
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