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Is there a canal back of the windmill pub?..as I understand, they were used to move the water around the canal system, I know there is a canal in the City Hospital ground because my office was but 50 feet away from it when I worked there in the 1960s, I feel there is one because as you drive up...

Used it in the 1960s so if it was a Windmill it was well before my time, try accessing any OS maps...bound to be on those. TRY Francis Frith? Pub was built in 1936 by M and B. So your going back possibly to pre 1900s. Birmingham City Council declared a climate emergency in June 2019 and made the...

She worked for him many years before.

I am related to a Leonard Hart he married Lillian Corrall, he looked after Curzon St station, this no longer and HS2 station.

had first friendly Monday and Won...next is 2morrow lunchtime...keeps you off the PC.

to continue, The George Warley, The Wernley Wolverhampton Rd( I belong to)..another what went was The Lightswoods one, two there, plus bird aviary, a tennis court, yes taken away by LABOUR council in Sandwell, supposed to keep us fit and socialise.

I am now 78 and rejoined the Wernley Bowling Club Wolverhampton rd, Warley, after over 50 years ago I played for them.

Jack Allen Motor bodies Buckingham St, I supplied them with the the electrical equipment that went on them. 1970s.

I had a contract with Jack Allen Motor Bodies in Buckingham St supplying electrical equipment to go onto the refuse Vehicles they built from scratch 1970's.

I remember Reg Boon went out with his daughter, remember Ian McGregor and Mervyn Astley, theres one name missing there, Sally ?, married to Tony?

What year/s are we talking here, I supplied starters and alternators to Davenports for their trucks from my own business, before that I worked for A.T. Gittins..transport manager was Harry Simpson and stores manager was Tony O'Neal, I went out with the receptionist Iris, was middle 1970s..

I have a feeling it was on the A41, Soho Rd, my Mum went to it she lived in South Rd in the 1940s....I can see a tall building in my head but cannot really place it on that road sorry, could be close to Thornhill Rd where the police station is or used to be, would have been on the right side...

Info on Quinton station a station I kept open 30 years ago with another officer, was wrong it did not remain open, it closed and went up for sale for sometime, then they changed their mind and refurbushed it and reopened it, problem is these stations are not walk in stations, just like Harborne...

Is Digbeth Police station still there, I did some training there in the 1980s.

Do we have a section for WERFS a ladies clothing shop opposite Lewis's.