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Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
I am so confident that this will give trouble, I am going to give a clue at the outset "Look to the South" This building is still standing today although you may have a little trouble identifying it. It also until very recently still filled the same purpose.

Phil

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It looks very much like the toll house at the Avoncroft museum.
 
Could be right Mike we went on courses close by from the council. A little pub close by called the Grass Hopper. Jean.
 
Nothing to do with a toll house, park or pub. Another clue its just over the border of Birmingham.
 
Going to bed soon Phill and will probably wake up in the night wondering where it is. Jean. ps. Did anyone guess where my photo's were taken?.
 
Jean

It has nothing to do with Wooton Wawen, anyway thats a little more than just over the border.

Phil
 
Hi maggie

No sorry, try a bit more s.e. as opposed to s.w. Another clue would be although I have no doubt someone lived there it was also a type of shop. I am looking for the location and type of shop.

Phil
 
Christy

No I'm sorry, nothing to do with Highgate Park, I think I said earlier there was no park connection

Phil
 
The only thing I can think of, and don't think it fits unless the roads have been altered a lot, is the house on the corner of Redditch Road and Back Road, Kings Norton Green. That has been a undertakers, and a butchers I believe, and dimly recall it was a house where the banker lived who originally ran the bank at what is now the Green island.
 
Ragga
no cemetery near to this place that I know of

Lloyd
its a little more S.E, just over the boundary of Birmingham

maggie
if you think that about 5 miles as the crow flies is close, then the answer is yes.

I have to pass by this place tomorrow, if it has not gone by then I will take a snap of how it looks today and put it up, that should be a big enough clue.

Phil
 
Hollywood (old) Post Office, Alcester Road / Dark Lane junction?

Edit. Replacement image - may vary from original lost image. This one is c1908. Viv.

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Lloyd you are still nowhere near it, but you are on the right track.

Phil
 
As promised as I passed this location this morning, I took this snap from roughly the same spot. As you can see it has changed a little.

Surely somebody can identify it now?

Phil

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hi ya is it handsworth/west brom island rd / hollyhead rd junction? have,nt been that way in an age, regards derek.
 
Lloyd

Its Olton Post office on the corner of Warwick Rd and Ulverley Green Rd, Olton. Or rather it was until TB closed it down a couple of years back. Well done, its about time for you to give us one of your tram locations now. (remember a new thread)

Phil
 
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