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    Beamish Road, Small Heath

    Hi Walshann, I went with Roy to see the Beatles at the Odeon! That takes me back a bit...
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    Bolton Road, Small Heath

    I remember the scrap yard. It was between the Horse and Jockey on the corner of Miles Street and the railway bridge with the old green Victorian urinal underneath. It was on the right hand side of Bordesley Park Road going up toward Bolton Road from the Cov. It's name? We just called it the...
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    Small Heath Streets

    I think there is a thread re Ashley Street already on this site.
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    New library.

    This week's The Spectator magazine in the arts section has an article entitled Second city blues. It carries a superb photo from inside the library, and says, regarding the new library: "...it's rather refreshing that for once, such a prestigious building in such a prime site is being used to...
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    Pubs in Tyseley

    What about The Greet, wasn't that in Tyesley?
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    Masons pop factory

    Mason's Super Jaff - now there's a memory. It was so orange it would set a Geiger counter off. Use to get it at the outdoor in Bordesley Park Road, Small Heath. Was it 11d or 1/3d?
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    Arthur Street, Small Heath

    Re-posted
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    Bordesley Park Road

    Hi mhemery, great photos! Looking at the bridge pic 0025, I don't recall the metal one in the 50's. Then, what once stood where the billboard is?
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    Bordesley Park Road

    Is the grocers: Patricks
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    Tamworth field trainspotting

    If I remember correctly it was 1/10d return from New Street to Tamworth. One of the cries I recall was "Double on the Clanger!" I watched the Royal Train double-headed screaming through. Pulled by Duchess of Sutheralnd and Duchess of Hamilton.
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    Who remembers the "Miskin Men"?

    I remember the term Miskin Jumping when kids jumped in the bin to make room for more rubbish. It may have been the term too for the bin in which vegetable peelings were put for the pigs; more commonly known as the pig bin.
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    28 bus route

    Yeh, but what about the 28A ?
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    28 bus route

    The 28 came up from town through Digbeth and Deritend, turned left under Bordesley Station bridge, went down Coventry Road, turned right by the Old Lodge pub into Bordesley Park Road, then along Bolton Road toward Small Heeth Park. From the corner of Bordesley Park Road to Oakley Road was a...
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    Birmingham - 140 ways of spelling its name

    If every word had that many ways of spelling, I would never have had the whack at school. Its not so much the spelling but the pronounciation that gets me. The number of people who say Birningham with a n instead of m is remarkable. Ofishal word speling chump.
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    Steam Locos

    Thought you train spotters may enjoy this. On YouTube, type in Jobs in the British Railways 1946 - "The Railwaymen" - Historic Train Film
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    Pubs Of The Past

    The Brewer and the Baker" used to have a painting and a poem on it's facade depicting an arguement between the Baker who said "I am the Staff of Life" and the Brewer who retorted. "But I am Life Itself". My mother worked there in the late 50's early 60s and the licensee was one JAMES BOND...
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    Water : Springs and wells of Birmingham

    Chalybeate Spring. One mile from Birmingham, in the manor of Duddeston, and joining the turnpike road to Coleshill, is a chalybeate spring. William Hutton James Guest History of Brmingham
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    Owens Farm Sparkbrook

    Farm Park as it is now. The Blue Plaque reads: Sampson Lloyd 1699 - 1779 Founder of Lloyds Bank Lived Here.
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    Birmingham FC

    Yep, I can see 'em now painting their sheets: "LAMBERT OUT!" Doing the Lambert Walk Any evening any day If you walk down Witton way You’ll find them all Doing the Lambert Walk Every little Lambert pal With his little Lambert gal You'll find them all Doing the Lambert walk...
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    Steam Locos

    Princess Elizabeth at Tyseley sheds.
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