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Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

Pedrocut said:
Editorial in the Birmingham Gazette in March 1940.


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It is such a shame that messers Picot and Balfro stitched up the Arabs in the first place. Palestine was for the Palestinian’s. The holy land belongs to no one it is a universal state in the same way as the Vatican City. Israel should not be allowed to keep setting in Palestinian areas, or dividing the land to their advantage .
 
Hot mill run-out table at a steel works. Each of the rollers is driven by a G.E.C. variable frequency motor.
March 1940

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MWS said:
Quite far out I think, even though she is listed at Elm Cottage, Coventry Road, Birmingham on the 1939 reg. it came under Meriden (passed Clock Lane).
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Boundaries & districts are odd. My great gran died at the old Keresley Hospital, Coventry. Now a Hotel. The death certificate said Meriden.
 
Birmingham Gazette of May 1940 reports the advice the Lord Mayor. Councillor T. B. Pritchett gave the previous night.
“BIRMINGHAM has hardly yet appreciated that the country is at war…”

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My dad had the tail fin of one of those hanging up in his shed for years. It was made from pressed mild steel with small rivets holding it together. I assumed it had been used as some of the rivets were popped open.
 
Pedrocut said:
Something that has not been much discussed, aliens during the war.
(Birmingham Gazette June 1940)


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Given that the population size of Birmingham was smaller then, I'm surprised at the numbers. I was prompted to find this National Archives Blog on Internment of Enemy Aliens in 1940 which describes the experiences of Italians instancing the caterers Carmine (Charles) Forte and Frank Berni (who would found Berni Inns with his brother).
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.u...ate-of-italians-resident-in-a-britain-at-war/
 
My thumb won't work. I am giving you a thumb.Was this the same as the A.T.S. or have I got it wrong. ? My friend's parents met in the A.T.S. I thought it was. They wore uniforms .
 
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According to Mr Google :

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed on 9 September 1938, initially as a women's voluntary service, and existed until 1 February 1949, when it was merged into the Women's Royal Army Corps.
If that
 
Not Birmingham but from the Birmingham Gazette July 1940. Anyone have any recollection of these exercises in Birmingham ?
My aunt said they had similar practice.

“These London school-children are practising the new instructions issued by the Board of Education on the precautions to be taken in schools during an air raid. The picture shows the children drop under their desks and in the gangways.”


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Pedrocut said:
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Radiorails said:
Some of us oldies remember and still follow making use of junk. Younger folk come on daytime tv re-inventing the wheel. :D
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I think they have to, although it grates a bit, as knowledge is not being passed down. The grandchildren think I am wonderful with the simplest games and make shift toys, even my fingers, that is not on an ipad or needs a battery.
 
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