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Recognition for Benjamin: Revolutionary poet, writer and musician Benjamin Zephaniah is to be posthumously awarded the City of...

Thanks for info. I am very interested in the shops etc. I read an article that suggested that the site was cleared in the 1960-s when...

Henry Garners was a Datsun dealer in the early 70's. My grandparents lived oposite in the house that is now Robert Aston Estate Agents...

I worked for Henry Garner from 1975 until their demise in 1986, often went into the pub next door, until the accounts department was...

Black Sabbath to be given Freedom of the City of Birmingham All four original members of Black Sabbath - Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy...

St Albans Church, Highgate has a brilliant website including a Parish Heritage Trail. This may be of interest [copied from the site.]...

Have a look at thread called Friston Street [use search function] which you may find useful as well as a map.

It looks as if Attock Cricket Club have put in new proposals re Windermere field! An ad hoc meeting was Amazing but the Attock Cricket...

They became part of the Horseley company at Tipton in further mergers which itself was merged and closed

A trade card showing the forwarding yard at Spring Hill in 1909.

What a great picture. Thomas Piggott & Co. was founded back in 1822 and rapidly expanded including many takeovers. By the 1880s sites...

Interesting Victorian building [grade II listed] but as for running a modern library service in it........................... BCC is...

I remember it when it was operational. We reported our missing dog there - many years ago when police actually patrolled their...

Found a very similar photo - perhaps even the same vehicle? It was labelled "Birmingham co-op had a huge fleet of mobile shops which...

Birmingham Post October 1992