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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Is there a fashion for colourful crocheted berets, I notice my next door neighbour makes and then sells in local market.
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Not too proud to pull on long johns and matching long sleeve top if beach walking in the winter keeps the draughts from my old bones!
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    Malcolm Stent

    Just read on local facebook page that local comedian Malcolm Stent has recently died. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-paid-solihull-panto-king-28830374https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-paid-solihull-panto-king-28830374
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    Lindegren

    Anthea b 2nd quarter '43 Birmingham?
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    its vivienne14s birthday

    Happy Birthday. Thank you for your many contributions to the forum.
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    computer help

    And then it wanted my MS password, no-one has asked for that for years, but I surprised myself and managed to reset it, eventually!
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    computer help

    Thanks both, it's easy to change an "English" to something else but more difficult trying to change "Chinese" to English especially when the new machine uses different logos. But I've got there! Ta!
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    computer help

    HELP PLEASE! Just bought an Amazon Kindle on line but it "Speaks" Cantonese! The supplier e-mails me saying "it can easily be switched to English in Settings, but how? I'm not very computer literate and don't read a word of Chinese!
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    Moseley Kings Heath Line

    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/camp-hill-line-birminghams-new-28646689?utm_source=birmingham_live_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=dcc7b28c-6c0f-4440-a981-3cadae2a751e Newspaper update
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    The Grid Project – In The Footsteps Of Phyllis…

    Don't you find that someone has been in and knocked it down?
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    Kings Hall Market

    Current Google shot shows Friends Meeting place still there, many years ago I saw, I think Tibetan Buddhists, doing a talk there.
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    A little row of shops

    Realise that things are going full circle. Eye sight deteriorating so driving is off the menu so now walking to local shop, a Tesco, good exercise, taken to using a step counter. Suppose I shall be looking to the once a week "Ring and Ride" next!
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    IN OUR GARDEN 2024

    We have frog's spawn.
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    Our childhood toys

    Surprised that "search" doesn't show that someone has not extolled the joy of Subbuteo! Strictly speaking I never had a Subbuteo but the earlier version which I remember was called "Newfooty" or something very similar. Hours of enjoyment in 1950's
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    I know this is probably not the best place for this, it's just a "heads up" I spotted this morning. The travel photographer of the year exhibition is coming to NEC (is it still called that?) and I thought there would be those interested to know, anyway it's 16-19 March...
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    A little row of shops

    I suppose all of us of a certain age grew up with the local shop concept, no car in the home, there wasn't until late 50's at best, moms needed a range of shops within bag carrying distance. My earliest locals were on the Warwick Rd at Tyseley some near to Knights Rd. the others on the corner of...
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    Computer Security.

    My e-mail account has recently been hacked by someone in Lagos, Nigeria. My contacts received an e-mail inviting them to buy me a gift voucher. For a couple of days I received no incoming e-mails I guess they were being diverted to my new friend in Lagos, but on the plus side I have had lots of...
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    King Edward VI School, Five Ways 1883 - 1958

    KES promote "bright" pupils from the Grammar Schools to the high school at Edgbaston. A couple of my class mates were similarly treated.
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    King Edward VI School Edgbaston 1936

    Probably KES Edgbaston, Camp Hill head in 1950 was Tom Rogers, a Quaker so we didn't have Cadet Corps.
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    Blind and visually impaired workers in Birmingham's past

    Remploy which started in 1940's after WW2 probably took on some of the employment of the visually disabled. There was a Remploy factory in Garretts Green for many years.
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