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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Hiroshima with Appreciate Appreciate.
    38 Calthorpe Road was not only remarkable because of three key figures, Peieris, Frisch and Fuchs associated with the nuclear project...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Calthorpe Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    38 Calthorpe Road was not only remarkable because of three key figures, Peieris, Frisch and Fuchs associated with the nuclear project...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Hiroshima with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Apparently there is a blue plaque on the Poynting Physics Building at the university that commemorates their achievement. The Spy that...
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    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Hiroshima with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Interesting information and a new insight into Birmingham's role in the weapons programme. The house where Peierls and Frisch lodged is...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Hiroshima with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a description as to how Birmingham contributed to the development of the atomic bomb...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread The Pelham with Sad Sad.
    Here is The Pelham being demolished in 1989
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Grand Hotel Colmore Row.
    Am article on the Grand Hotel from the BBC Birmingham website today.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxp1nxx72eo
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Canals In Wartime with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is another picture from the IWM and is also for sale on Alamy. On Getty images it is £150-275 ! “With Miss March, dressed in...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Birmingham During Wartime with Appreciate Appreciate.
    In support of the 'Holidays at Home' scheme, members of the public enjoy an open air performance of 'Devonshire Cream' in a Birmingham...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Canals In Wartime with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A cargo of steel which has been transported from London is unloaded from a pair of canal boats at Tysley quay on the Grand Union Canal...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Birmingham During Wartime with Appreciate Appreciate.
    “Men and women shop amongst the market stalls that line the centre of the road in Birmingham's bomb-damaged Bull Ring Market Square...
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    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread When Women Ran The Railways with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Women railway workers cleaning locomotives on the Great Central Railway, Birmingham, September, 1918. (IWM)
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    A Sparks reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Hamstead Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We used to run cubs and scouts back here in the 1980s - in the church (Bonner) hall at the back. Church Parades in here in the winter...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Bulls Head Camp Hill with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This photo, when I first saw it, was rather disingenuously labelled as The Bulls Head Camp Hill. While not completely inaccurate, as it...
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    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Day's Crystal Palace Concert Hall Empire Theatre with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Memories of the birth of the concert hall on the death of his son in 1883
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