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    cba reacted to Radiorails's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oversized starlings! Birmingham was/is famous for them. :laughing:
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    cba reacted to Phil Gundy's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I think they are the famous Birmingham Pecky Blinders. Not a sparrow to mess with.
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    cba reacted to Phil Gundy's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The house I grew up in during the 50's and 60's was on a flightpath for starlings flying into the city for the night. The sky was black...
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    cba reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Smallbrook Ringway with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Ringway Centre recently from Cafe Nero in the Bull Ring Centre. 'DUST' put his tag on the end near the roof which seems to symbolise...
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    cba reacted to Neil M's post in the thread St Thomas Church Bath Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Church of St Thomas, Holloway Head, was bombed in the war on 11 December 1940. The body of the church was levelled to the ground...
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    cba reacted to Neil M's post in the thread St Thomas Church Bath Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    When world leaders came to Birmingham for the G8 summit in 1998, each planted a tree in the Peace Garden in the precinct of the Church...
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    cba reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread cluedo with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A new collectable Cluedo 50p coin has been minted... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckx2zdj4166yo
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    cba reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Chamberlain Square Statues with Appreciate Appreciate.
    After the Paradise redevelopment, the statues of Priestley and Watt have been returned - but to Ratcliff Passage...
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    cba replied to the thread Sutton Park History.
    What a wonderful map. Superb descriptions and comments. It would make a wonderful framed picture. Thank you Neil M for posting it.
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    cba reacted to Neil M's post in the thread Sutton Park History with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A Picture Map of The Park of Sutton Coalfield published by The Birmingham Civic Society as part of their "Guide to Sutton Park". From...
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    cba reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Sutton Park History with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Bank Holiday at Sutton, Aug 1909. ( Birmingham Daily Post)
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    cba reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Kate Bunce and Myra Bunce artists with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here are Mary and Kate Bunce at the Lord Mayors Fancy dress Ball in 1914.
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    cba reacted to Dionysius//88's post in the thread The Ice Cream Man with Appreciate Appreciate.
    While the heatwave was on the wife surprised my son and me with Solero's, nice mixture of orange and ice cream
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    cba reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread The Ice Cream Man with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I visited the London Canal Museum at the back of King's Cross Station this week for Heritage week which was interesting. The building...
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    cba reacted to Time Traveller 66's post in the thread The Ice Cream Man with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I wish i was a spaceman ( great tune) . Yes i remember the Anglia van to small as you said just sold wafers and ice lols. Could not do...
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