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      brummy-lad reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Ladypool Road. with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Butcher at 248 Ladypool Road in the 1960s. I wish there were butchers today giving a lb of chops for about 18 pence (3/6) Edit: Or is...
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      brummy-lad reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Ladypool Road. with Appreciate Appreciate.
      i have to thank tina for leading me to look in my photo files for one of her parents shop which we have now found but imagine my...
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      An aerial view from 1946 and 1950s map
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      brummy-lad reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Hill Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
      The photo is looking across at Hinkley Street from the junction of Hill Street and Smallbrook Street .... here's a photo dated 1957...
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      brummy-lad reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Hill Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Here is a photo labelled construction in Lower Hill Street 1950s. am not quite sure of the exact site shown
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      brummy-lad replied to the thread Westley Street.
      Hi Sylvgibbs welcom to the forum. I can't find any photos but these aerial photos are from 1923, map is 1889.
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      brummy-lad replied to the thread Potters Hill Aston.
      No. 67 would have been approx. half-way along the block of houses (behind the lamppost).
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      brummy-lad reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Price Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Here is a photo labelled Court 1 Price street. The 1886 map shows court 1 and the area immediately around having been demolished, but...
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      brummy-lad reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Cherry Orchards of Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
      1870 Archaeological Journal… “What a picture of the town the mention of these names conjures up! Here are fields, meadows, barns, and...
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      brummy-lad reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Cherry Orchards of Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
      The growing of cherries aren't something I'd associate with Birmingham, but way back, the Priory and Hospital of St Thomas had their own...
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      brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
      We are now in River Street ( 28/29?) a back street unit offereing televisions ( to the trade!!) a close look above street level shows a...
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      brummy-lad reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
      As an aside put this picture into an app that produces pencil sketches from pictures. Obviously an interpretation.
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      brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Next picture is included as it may mean something to someone, looking boarded and bricked up on the ground floor but still surviving...
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      brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
      This may or may not be correct - my rather vague list states building in Fazeley Street, but no mention of it been a former Church -...
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      brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
      A quick return to the corner of the road for a close up look at the Crown Inn, looking slightly worse for wear with windows boarded and...
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