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    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Hamstead Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    only just noticed but i think photo on post 32 and 34 are of the same buildings..post 32 gives us more of the location..
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    A Sparks reacted to Moor End Lad's post in the thread Aston Road North with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I've been looking out for a picture of Whitehouse Printers. My grandfather was the qualified printer there.
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    A Sparks reacted to Eric Gibson's post in the thread Hamstead Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is in my memory, when I was 13 I worked Saturdays on a Bradford's bread round, I recall taking a loaf to the top floor for a blind...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Hamstead Road Handsworth.
    Yes! The building doesn't look in very good condition does it, not with those exposed roof beams at the left side of the house in the...
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    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Hamstead Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    wonder where on hamstead road that was lyn
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Hamstead Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hamstead Road, creator: G.D.K. Boyle. 1897. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    A Sparks reacted to postie's post in the thread RULES with Appreciate Appreciate.
    THE RULES OF MEMBERSHIP By holding membership of the Forum, members agree to be bound by these rules. Members will do their utmost to...
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    A Sparks reacted to Bob Blakemore's post in the thread Stevie Wonder In Birmingham In 1963 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I worked at the Plaza when Stevie Wonder appeared. ,It was my job that night to push his drum kit away from the edge of the stage when...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Walsall Road.
    Very brave. The sort of thing your Mom and Dad would have told you not to do!! We used to call those pipes a monkey bridge.
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    A Sparks reacted to Donbogen's post in the thread Walsall Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Never used that bridge used to cross the river on that pipe once i bypassed the spiky bit
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Walsall Road.
    That would be in the Hamstead Playing Fields area I guess, Beauchamp Avenue houses in the distance?
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Walsall Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Old footbridge at old Walsall Road, Hamstead. 1981. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Balloon Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Balloon Street at corner of Brick Kiln Lane, Birmingham, creator: James Burgoyne. 1895. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    A Sparks replied to the thread The Golden Eagle, Hill Street.
    Not quite sure if this should go in the Hill Street thread? It refers to the vacant plot where the Golden Eagle used to stand -...
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    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    1992 end of hockley station key hill cemetery on the right also todays view...
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