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Location wanted for this bus if possible

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At least three people now claiming to have solved it. I expect the list to increase - but no points in this thread. :D
There are a lot of unanswered questions posed here on BHF over the years. maybe they could now become the focus?
 
Radiorails said:
At least three people now claiming to have solved it. I expect the list to increase - but no points in this thread. :D
There are a lot of unanswered questions posed here on BHF over the years. maybe they could now become the focus?
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It is a team effort. However, your lack of enthusiasm is noted. Yesterday when brummy-lad resurrected the thread you responded with "I can hear the groans from here!" and later on commented "Over 400 posts and at least six possible locations did not solve it." A day later and the mystery is solved. I have you down as a glass half-full person.
 
Some half full glasses can still be bad -ie. Fosters, while some half empty can be good ie Budvar
 
www.midlandspubs.co.uk said:
It is a team effort. However, your lack of enthusiasm is noted. Yesterday when brummy-lad resurrected the thread you responded with "I can hear the groans from here!" and later on commented "Over 400 posts and at least six possible locations did not solve it." A day later and the mystery is solved. I have you down as a glass half-full person.
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Your insults are noted. I suggest you learn what emojis are and how they should be interpreted. This one is a laugh :laughing:, so the post was meant to be a lighthearted one.
 
Actually, doubters and optimists have all played their part in this post for which I’m grateful. I’m now convinced of the location and am going to enjoy a pint of old crafty hen while isolating in my sun lounger, cheers everyone, keep safe.
 
DavidGrain said:
Unfortunately at the beginning of last week, I did see posted on Facebook a photo of a no. 8 bus making the turn from Bristol Street into Belgrave road with another no. 8 bus travelling in the opposite direction. It would have been on one of the Facebook pages of Old Photographs of Birmingham. I wish now that I had taken a copy of it. On that photo you could see in the distance the spire of the Wycliffe Chapel.
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DavidGrain, I have been trying to get Facebook users, to find the photo you mention, no luck yet
Could it possibly be this photo you were thinking of?
stratford rd two buses.jpg
It's a strange coincidence there are 2 No. 8 buses & a church spire, but I am sure this one is Stratford Road.
Either way I very much appreciate your contributions to this Forum, so should I still look for another photograph?
 
RobT said:
DavidGrain, I have been trying to get Facebook users, to find the photo you mention, no luck yet
Could it possibly be this photo you were thinking of?
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It's a strange coincidence there are 2 No. 8 buses & a church spire, but I am sure this one is Stratford Road.
Either way I very much appreciate your contributions to this Forum, so should I still look for another photograph?
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Thank you for tracing it. Yes that is the one that I meant. Perhaps I jumped to quickly to a conclusion. Looking closer it does look as if there is a road going off to the right which I assumed was Sun Street but is too close to the junction where the bus is turning. The existence of Midland Red bus stops does mean that it is a main road out of Birmingham
 
RobT said:
DavidGrain, I have been trying to get Facebook users, to find the photo you mention, no luck yet
Could it possibly be this photo you were thinking of?
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It's a strange coincidence there are 2 No. 8 buses & a church spire, but I am sure this one is Stratford Road.
Either way I very much appreciate your contributions to this Forum, so should I still look for another photograph?
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It is Stratford Road. junction with Walford Road RobT. The pic is on BHF a few times. Somewhere I wrote details about the buses.
 
Got this photo off Birmingham Forum, St. Lukes Road apparently, couldn't be the end of the the road where the church was knocked down, church replaced with new buildings, leaving the Sunday School or buildings next door to it, could it?
st lukes road.JPG
 
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