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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Landor Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below are two photos of Bollands Terrace. Landor Street. It is a little difficult to determine which terrace this is, but think it is...
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    A Sparks reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Deritend Bridge with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An aerial view dated 1921.
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    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Deritend Bridge with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some extracts from another thread showing Lines's depiction of a building at Deritend Bridge and mijejee's map added to show its...
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    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Deritend Bridge with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A few features of the bridge were described in 1937. This section of the road has undergone many changes since that time, even to the...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Edgbaston Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a a950s map showing the position of Edmonds at no 63 in blue, and Marlins grill at no 62 in red
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    A Sparks reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Edgbaston Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A view of a building on the south side of Edgbaston Street .... Timothy Jones & Co (wholesale stationers) at Number 54. This building is...
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    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Edgbaston Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Phyllis Nicklin took this photo of Edmond Bros, Fruit & Veg premises in Edgbaston Street in 1968. The street had obviously recovered...
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    A Sparks reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Gas Street basin with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It was interesting how she would visit the same site more than once and take another photo from about the same spot and occasionally do...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Aston Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Gateway and lodge at Aston Park. 1890. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    A Sparks reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Newtown Row with Sad Sad.
    There were numerous injuries/deaths at Nos. 222 to 226 and No. 200 which seemed to be in that area.
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Newtown Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here are photos showing the site of court 34 Newtown Row with 1886 map showing position in red. It is not there on the 1949 map, so was...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread William Street North with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below is a photo which I believe is of houses 1 & 2 court 5 William Street North. It was labelled as William Street Ladywood, but, on...
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    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Gas Street basin with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Phyllis Nicklin captured the changing state of the Basin from 1961 compared with 1968. She must have realised that the state of the...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Weaman Street and Lancaster street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is Weaman Street while it still had the look of a domestic street, though, even then, most of the buildings were commercial. No 37...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Aston Parish Church St Peter And St Pauls with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Put the GE view for comparison. Was not the White House the site of the Doctors ?
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