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    Help please with RAF badges

    I don't know what their sleeve patches are but they've obviously pulled them into view for the photo so must be proud of them.
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    Birmingham's pioneering motor industry - Dallison Gearing, Universal Motor Body Builders, Flewitts

    303 Broad Street must be somewhere close to where P J Evans and the Hangar Motors showrooms were, Watson where I worked was at 297.
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    Slab cake

    That's the one Lyn but I had Bridge Street in my head and I knew it wasn't that. :)
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    Slab cake

    I used to buy a chunk of cherry cake on my way down from the Villa Cross to work in Villa Street, there was a shop in the road leading down, can't remember the name of the road or the shop. :confused:
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    Is This Your Motor?

    First car I ever bought for my own use BNP14, a non-runner the company took part exchange, £5 to buy £5 for a second hand engine £5 for a respray £3 for odds and ends, on the road for £18, kept it for two years and sold for £65. ;)
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    Is This Your Motor?

    I had a tired old Morris 1000 traveller in my yard, a young lady customer begged me to restore it for her so when business was a bit quiet I fixed it up pretty well like new, mechanics all good interior spotless etc. She and her husband came to look it over, inspected it carefully, she said...
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    Microsoft Edge

    Microsoft on my Win10 computer list Edge as 'Microsoft Edge (Chrome)' It works for me so I haven't interfered with it.
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    Air raid shelters

    After one night of bombing myself and my brother walked up to see the damage, they had obviously been aiming for Kingstanding Road, fortunately they missed the road and the houses but there were bomb craters in many of the front gardens
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    Plans for Digbeth/Highgate area

    Somewhere to dump the old bikes and shopping trolleys and for the magnet fishermen to fish maybe.;)
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    Air raid shelters

    When the war ended those curved panels made excellent sleds.
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    I think the days of the 'journalist' have slipped on by, all we get now is the editor saying "I need a page filler write me a thousand lines, any old rubbish will do."
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    Kingstanding Community Centre 623 Kingstanding Road

    I looked at it and couldn't decide, the front is Lloyds but maybe the original 'proper' bank building is hidden behind the frontage.
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    Kingstanding Community Centre 623 Kingstanding Road

    Blimey Viv that's all changed, just did a Google Earth search on the address, it's all open space, further back towards the Harringay Road junction there's a Lloyds bank I think where I used to bank at the Birmingham Municipal Bank when I was a boy, not sure if it's on the same site.
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    Is This Your Motor?

    Only the neglected ones, if properly maintained they would last forever.
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    1st touch on a Computer

    Collectors out there paying good money for those old Commodores Mo.
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    Hairdressing & barbering

    No not that one Viv this one was down by the Brooklyn Tech.
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    Hairdressing & barbering

    We had a customer in Great Barr with a ladies hairdressing business, her son learned the job from her, when he got to 18 years old he went to New York and got involved with a hairdresser over there, we used to laugh at his stories, He grew a goatie beard and the NY company sold him as Mr...
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    Wain

    Sorry Chris I've just had a look through the tree and found that it wasn't Wain it was Quain. :oops:
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    Wain

    My sister in law was difficult to find when I was doing the tree her family, I thought, was named Baggot but I later found she was Betty Wain, a mystery I still haven't really explained.
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    House interiors

    Pretty normal for here in the Forest of Dean plenty of people still use coal fires and wood burners.
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