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My dad cane home one night and said he'd just had great fun that day, driving a 4wd Capri round a field

Reminds me that I was invited to a Sixth Form conference in 1958 at Cadbury's on this theme, the then City Architect Mr Sheppard Fidler...

Hello Mike and everyone else, my dad worked for the Birmingham cooperative and took part in the May Day parade in 1932 in cannon hill...

This tread could become quite diverse, I had friends who worked on the maintenance of milk delivery floats, certainly Co-op transport...

From the Albany were St.Judes, church and school, Colmore Dept, remember 1965 trying out an Austin 1100, then see Mikejee pcture above.

The Shaftesbury Hotel/House/Building was at #59 - #61 Station Street. The whole building operated as an hotel until c1924. At this time...

The Lieng Nam would have been on the ground floor of Shaftesbury Hotel/House, I think, at #53-55 Station Street, next door to the Crown...

in late 50's/early60's the fish sidings had become red star parcels, certainly no bar, the entrance to the station platforms was still...

She's not familiar with the "rendering" term. "Artist's impression" or "exploded view" depending on if architectural or engineering

This view looking up Shirley Road from the village centre shows the same building on the right of the road, behind the parked car. It's...

I think this is it

The houses beyond Ivy Cottage still there just above the car. This is a bit further forward than Mike's view...

My wife worked in a studio that did this type of work "by hand" until around 1970.

In fact the church never got it's spire proved too costly, Mike's picture was taken 1928, the library was built 1932.

I believe the photo shows the site where Acocks Green library was later built. Therefore it probably shows the buildings indicated in...