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  1. AustinLancer

    Bull Ring Car Park

    On You Tube there is a clip entitled birminghams bull ring-1964 to 1999-before demolision. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIr2UWHMkM&feature=related At about 2 min mark a couple in a red Austin 1100 pull into the Bull Ring multi storey car park off the Queensway , where in an operator...
  2. AustinLancer

    Birmingham Factory Football Teams

    Apologies if this is already answered. I noticed that Ron Atkinson once played for the BSA Tools team. Does anyone know any good web sites that list the history of "Works" teams in the West Midlands?
  3. AustinLancer

    Royal Warwickshire 1/8 Battalion

    Hi from Australia. I am trying to find out about the 1/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW1. A relative of mine, Private A H Eade, was killed of 4 November 1918 and is burried at Landrecies British Cemetery (according to CWGC website) which I believe is in France or Belgium...
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    Rover Motor Works Coventry memorial

    Greetings from Australia. My grandmother's uncle from Smethwick, Sapper H Grew, Royal Engineers was killled on the Western Front on 31 May 1917. His death notice in the local paper "The Smethwick Telephone" states he was formerly employed at the Rover Works Coventry. Would anyone know if...
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    Radio Gramaphone Developments

    Greetings from Australia Would any one have any information re the radio/tv company Radio Gramaphone Developments ? I understand they were from 1929 at the Globe Works, Newtown Row Birmingham 6, until bombed in WW2, moving to Bridgnorth until taken over in 1952 by Regentone.
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