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    Where did you live

    Good to know, I used live at number 40.
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    GLASTONBURY

    Good to see Robert Plant at Glastonbury over the weekend. Still remember going to the Shepton Mallet festival in 1970, the forerunner of Glastonbury. Still remember having a pint of " rough and black " at Mothers in Erdington with Robert Plant, John Bonhan and John Peel. Must be getting old and...
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    Good classical music on YouTube

    I've just found this thread so I apologise in advance if this question has already been asked/answered. How old does music have to be to be "classed " as Classical ?
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    I understood that Union meetings are still held there but I could be wrong, Old Age ?
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    Baldwin Family

    I remember your Dad, he came away with us on a large family holiday to Butlins the one year,I think it was to Bognor Regis. I wasn't very old but I travelled back home with him and Laurie and was very sick all over the back seat of the car.
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I worked at J.W. Hinks and Co. but they were in Smethwick. I left in 1987.
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    Birmingham Christmas of the past

    Dad was a Postie until early 1980's, started at 4.00 am Monday to Saturday. 2 deliveries a day, parcels delivered separately and I forget how many collections per day, certainly more than one !
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    Christmas greetings 2021

    Yuletide Felicitations to One and All
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    High Street Erdington

    Before Chadds then.
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    High Street Erdington

    That's interesting, whereabouts in Hereford was that ?
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    It's good to know that someone else remembers the good times of finishing work at lunchtime on Christmas Eve and heading for town, and last minute shopping of course !
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    old car snaps

    Very true
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    old car snaps

    I also had difficulty avoiding a Reliant in the winter, a few years later though. I had just collected my wifes mini from the garage who had repaired the recent body damage she had sustained due to bad road conditions, so she said ! Went down a local side road that had ice packed ruts all along...
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    Adverts of yesteryear.

    You are right Maurice but that doesn't mean they are. If they didn't condemn anything they wouldn't have a job. How many times has the advice about butter or red wine changed ?
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Don't knock the burgers, remember the ones we used to have from the street vendors in town whilst we waited for the late night bus on a Saturday night !
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