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    Another Baskerville House

    Walking down Hurst Street and looking across an expanse of ground that had recently been demolished I saw something I hadn't noticed before. There is a building called Baskerville House on Barford Street...
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    Plastic Bags

    In the 70s and 80s I bought a lot of vinyl records from various shops around the city and, for some reason, I still have some of the plastic bags they came in. It seems that most of the old record shops had their own designs that they either kept up or changed over the years. Anyway, I...
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    Brummie paintings - funny side

    https://robspaintings.com/ Not so much of the historical material and the style is more cartoony than regular paintings but this guy paints birmingham scenes that some of you will recognise and, if you can see the captions, he does have a sense of humour. He sells most as framed, unframed or...
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    A Confidential Agent

    Slightly off-thread here as it's a radio show. As far as I can tell this is a period detective show set in Birmingham. The vagueness is from the show itself not mine. The central character is from Wolverhampton (although not originally) and moved back to the city that she was born in. At one...
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    Something good for nothing

    What follows are a set of links to sites that offer free music on the Creative Commons license. There are lots of others but these in particular point to pages of out-of copyright recordings. I know most of you prefer the 50s and 60s but this is generally older stuff...
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