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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I Know it does not as, a couple of years ago I asked a nember of staff where it was and they told me
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It is in what was the old Debenhams, but for somecreason the store, despite being big, does not have a cafe
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    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    yes its gone sparks...about 2 years back now think its in the bull ring now...after 8 years of being away you would not recognise the...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Birmingham horse drawn buses.
    Does the name refer to the Browns Green area in Handsworth Wood?
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Birmingham horse drawn buses with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Browns Green three-horse bus ran from Colmore Row and Handsworth around 1890 to the early 1900s. I am not very knowledgeable about...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Union Street.
    Has M&S gone now then? I haven't been to Birmingham for about 8 years now!
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    A Sparks reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I agree Sparks, it does look very different! I would imagine it's very quiet around there now Marks and Spencer is no longer in the High...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Union Street.
    Yes, sorry, I meant Corporation Street! :rolleyes:
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It is looking up from High Street towards Corporation Street
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Salvation Army view of Birmingham in 1899 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is from the Salvation Army publication Social Gazette. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, the commentator spoke highly of the well...
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Union Street.
    Gosh that looks different! Would that be looking up towards where Union Street joins with New Street, with the old arcade on the far...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is Union Street in the 1950s. Very run down, though the old dispensary is still standing, though now subdivided, with a nesagent in...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread The Moat - Moat Row & Moat Lane with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a photo of a back yard from a partially demolished Moat Row in the 1950s. Making a tentative guess that the yard concerned is th...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Greetings from a half Brum in Ohio, USA. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The electoral rolls show James as follows: 1922,1925 1 Crown Avenue, Birchfield Road with James Nathaniel & Martha Woodfield 1927, No 4...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Selly Manor with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Selly Manor and Minworth Greaves, Bournville, Birmingham. 1980.
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