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    Colroy07 replied to the thread St John’s Chapel Deritend.
    This building of 1735 replaced an earlier chapel of 1380. By 1939 it had ceased to be used for worship and its fate was sealed when it...
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread The Old Crown Inn Deritend.
    I believe when Substorm flow went down there in 2016 the water was higher . But the areas that date back to 1368 were not accessible...
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread The Old Crown Inn Deritend.
    Next to the tunnel you can see the trickle of the river ray . Accessed from one of the old paths now locked .
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread The Old Crown Inn Deritend.
    The team that found them.
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread The Old Crown Inn Deritend.
    Workmen digging up Digbeth to make way for the new West Midlands Metro line have uncovered a secret passage leading to a historic...
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread The Old Crown Inn Deritend.
    The tunnel, which dates back to 1368 and leads to Birmingham’s oldest pub the crown, We’re found when work began in 2022 .
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread Worcester Street.
    I love this view with the big roof of new street station . At the top you see the market.
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    Colroy07 reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread Bull Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Spectacular maps showing a chronological change in Birmingham! Thank you for sharing…
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread Bull Street.
    The lamb and as it was as haywards drapers.
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread Bull Street.
    These two maps don’t have dates but we’re a long time apart the first one shows welch end . But not bull street. Then the later one...
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread Bull Street.
    If you look close at the picture . The sign says union passage so this means it must have gone before I can rember . In the. 1960 all...
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    Colroy07 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Bull Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Pencil Drawing Bull Street from High Street, Birmingham, 1835 c By Samuel Lines Snr. (Birmingham Museums)
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    Colroy07 replied to the thread Saltley / Duddeston & Nechells Area.
    Wow that looks a lot like my kitchen in dolman street opposite les’s cafe we left in 1971. The times I had a bath in our sink. Because...
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    Colroy07 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Canals of Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A Birmingham Canal Lock, 1920-30 By George Leonard Leigh (d. 1942) *View of Cambrian Wharf in Ladywood. (Birmingham Museums)
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