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      BrianE reacted to Ladywood 2's post in the thread Birmingham air raids with Appreciate Appreciate.
      My father was a fire spotter on top of a factory. On November 1940 he thought there was an early sunrise.The red glow was the night...
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      BrianE replied to the thread Birmingham air raids.
      50th German bombing raid on Birmingham bombs fell on houses 1,3 & 5 Roderick Road, Sparkhill at the Osbourne Road end it also demolished...
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      BrianE replied to the thread Birmingham air raids.
      Thank you so very much for this map and and as it was decided my mum to go to Hereford to her sister for the birth of my sister on 13...
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      BrianE replied to the thread Cannon Hill Park.
      Awesome photo thanks for putting it up
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      BrianE reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Cannon Hill Park with Appreciate Appreciate.
      A hot air balloon preparing to ascend from Cannon Hill Park .... from the side near Russell Road. Credit: Birmingham Library
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      BrianE replied to the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank.
      I remember the low wall super photo
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      BrianE reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Here's an early photo of that branch, on the corner of Stratford Road and Shakespeare Street .... dated 1928. It was my childhood bank too.
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      BrianE replied to the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank.
      The date when I open the account would’ve been 1950
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      BrianE replied to the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank.
      I was taken by my father to the municipal bank on the top of Spark Hill. I was handed down over the counter a very large and heavy...
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      BrianE reacted to Di.Poppitt's post in the thread Birmingham Municipal Bank with Appreciate Appreciate.
      The Municipal was bought by Trustees Savings Bank, now part of Lloyds. it would be interesting to find what sort of return you would get...
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