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    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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    Walsall Road

    That would be in the Hamstead Playing Fields area I guess, Beauchamp Avenue houses in the distance?
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    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 - permission refused for the building of student accommodation... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8qpee37g3o
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    Dudley street

    Would that be Alex's Pie Stand in the first picture?!
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    E.C & J Keay of Birmingham and Darlaston

    Yes, that's the one I found and put in my original post!
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    E.C & J Keay of Birmingham and Darlaston

    An interesting company that doesn't appear to have been posted before, I came across the name today when waiting for the Circle Line at Kensington High Street Station! I just happened to look down at the iron column holding up the glass roof and the name and location of the company on it caught...
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    Valor Heating

    Yes indeed, we had one too!
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    Valor Heating

    Posted recently on a FB page.. Valor Company Ltd. was founded in Birmingham in 1890, initially producing oil storage cabinets for the Anglo-American Oil Company diversifying its production to portable oil heaters, which became very popular for heating homes and later gas heaters and...
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    Camp Hill Flyover

    Yes indeed! Not saying it's a bad thing but it does make you smile to see not-so-old photos and films with no protective head gear or hi-viz jackets and wearing their own clothes! Re the flyover, what a great piece of engineering it was for the time. I don't think there was anything like it in...
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    Dudley Road record Shop

    I found this, I guess it's the shop you mean - seems they ran an agency for local bands too... http://p-c-r-l.blogspot.com/2016/02/rising-star-agency-bands.html?m=1
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    Digbeth Police Station 113 Digbeth

    Digbeth Police Station is to reopen! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxgp461wgwo
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    Skin and Lock Hospital John Bright Street

    I can't actually read the article in the link without subscribing, was the bar in the Skin Hospital then? I wouldn't have known that in 2017 as I'd left Birmingham by then.
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    Skin and Lock Hospital John Bright Street

    I think that was probably another building. I worked part time at the old Ikon Gallery in John Bright Street in the 90s and there were offices in the Skin Hospital building then, the Birmingham Royal Ballet originally had an office in there.
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    Rag Market

    I'm still using a couple of saucepans I bought from a stall holder in the Rag Market in the 80s, I'm sure they'll last me out!
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    George Shaw, early Victorian photographer

    An interesting article on a little known scientist and photographer George Shaw. New Street There is an exhibition of his work at the Town Hall tram stop until January ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d5yly53yo
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