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      ChrisM replied to the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha.
      Just coming back to this and trying to clear my head as to where we are. Where I think I am – and this is where my brother came to a...
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      ChrisM reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
      In that case the Isaac in posts 267, 268 and 274 to 277 is a different person. This one died in 1848.
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      ChrisM reacted to MWS's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Yes, the Isaac Myers who died in 1848 is the grandfather of Isaac Myers (just mentioned) and Charles Moss Myers.
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      ChrisM reacted to MWS's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
      This is a little bit about Isaac Myers b1850, the eldest son of Maurice Myers and Elizabeth Abrahams, both the cousin and second cousin...
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      ChrisM replied to the thread Kynochs.
      I think that an answer to that complicated question would take up a full academic thesis or fairly dense book, Richard! (Which, in any...
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      ChrisM reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Kynochs with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Thanks Chris for your on-line history of Kynochs which gives us material which might have been omitted from the official company histories.
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      ChrisM reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread Kynochs with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Thank you Chris! What I don’t understand is why the city fathers didn’t fight (&win) to save some of those businesses or replacements...
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      ChrisM replied to the thread Kynochs.
      Yes, Richard, as Stokkie says, the business has been transformed over the last few decades with all the original activities such as...
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      ChrisM reacted to Keith R's post in the thread Cofton And Longbridge November 1940 with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Always been told that they off loaded 2/3 bombs into Upper Bittell Reservoir as they returned home and when it was drained some years...
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      Just referring to the title of this thread, I'll leave it to others to comment who know far more about this subject than I. But I feel...
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      ChrisM reacted to Key Hill Brian's post in the thread ERIC , cookie273 aged 95 with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Final farewell to Eric today - Lovely Service, RAF Flag, Last post by Royal Warks Fusilier. With Frothblower & Astoness We shall never...
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      ChrisM reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread ERIC , cookie273 aged 95 with Appreciate Appreciate.
      So glad the Forum was represented. I was sorry I couldn't make it. God Bless Eric rest in peace
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      ChrisM reacted to Astoness's post in the thread ERIC , cookie273 aged 95 with Appreciate Appreciate.
      as brian has said a lovely service for a lovely man...we entered to the royal warks fusilier on the bugle..elgars nimrod was played...
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      ChrisM reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Thanks Lyn for spotting this
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      ChrisM reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Muntz George Frederick (1794-1857) with Appreciate Appreciate.
      Muntz was involved, but as a political champion, not the inventor. 1852, Mr. Muntz (MP for Birmingham) moved for a select committee to...
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