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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread High Street Deritend with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Reconstruction works at Deritend Bridge, Birmingham. E.H. Sargeant. 1937. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    A Sparks reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Great Charles Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I have the impression that Phyllis Nicklin either checked or was told of planning applications for demolition. She did seem to capture a...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Great Charles Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Demolition of a house next to the one photographed by Nicklon in post 3, This was yaken in 1963. Probably the Nicklin house was next.
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    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Rifle Crescent Aston with Appreciate Appreciate.
    cracking photo and a new one to me..dated 1930 of the junction of rifle crescent which was off victoria road aston..6 ways in the...
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    A Sparks reacted to bestcover's post in the thread Rivers: River Blythe. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Used to live at Maxstoke and had to cross Dukes Bridge to get to Coleshill. Only one bus twice a week so walking 3 miles was often the...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread The body in the tree with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I note that on Sky History on 14th Nov at 3.00pm there is a story entitled "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm"
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Harborne with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Harborne post office, not the one today. One probably 1950s, the other much earlier with staff arrayed
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread High Street Erdington with Sad Sad.
    Afraid I am a bit cynical about that. This is because my local library authority (Reading ) are in the process of building a small...
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    A Sparks reacted to John L's post in the thread High Street Erdington with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I have used Erdington, Sutton, Streetly and the Central libraries. They are a great way for everyone to be able to read such a wide...
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    A Sparks reacted to Lady Penelope's post in the thread High Street Erdington with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I was in the Library last week picking up some history books about Erdington. I was pleased to see that it was busy and it seems to be...
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    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Birchfield Road Perry Barr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    the chemist shop is no 359 so much further down from 142 and on the other side of the road lyn
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Birchfield Road Perry Barr.
    I really don't know I'm afraid, although I would have travelled past on the bus into Town, I lived towards the Great Barr side of Perry...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread High Street Erdington with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Apologies. That was incorrect. For some reason I thought it had been demolished. Ignore my comment about that building, though it would...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Birchfield Road Perry Barr.
    Number 142 looks as if it was towards the Newtown/Lozells end of Birchfield Road. There are no houses on that side of the road now for...
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    A Sparks reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Horseshoe Hotel Stratford Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Finally - Costa coffee opened on 18th October. At one stage I thought work had stopped but assume they were sorting out inside. Not sure...
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