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    devonjim reacted to Dinger's post in the thread What 3 Words with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I've been using it for a few years. Its brilliant for meeting up with friends. I also use it a lot when reporting flytips, potholes and...
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    devonjim reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread What 3 Words with Appreciate Appreciate.
    You can amend the title of a thread you have created. Next to the word "watch" at the top of a thread you have created there should be a...
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    devonjim replied to the thread What 3 Words.
    Sorry can I amend title, should be "What 3 Words". So you find the three words from the app from your position and then your contact...
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    devonjim reacted to Morturn's post in the thread What 3 Words with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I use it occasionally It quite a simple way of showing, recording or sharing a location with three words based on 9m squares. I find it...
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    Probably much belated came across this "App". Anyone been using it? Your thoughts?
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    devonjim replied to the thread Acocks Green.
    My parents married there in 1939, the Church was bombed in 1940 and services were held at alternative venues including the Warwick...
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    devonjim reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread When Everyone Wore A Hat... with Haha Haha.
    defiinatly to the front.i have a solection of hats:)
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    devonjim replied to the thread When Everyone Wore A Hat....
    A knitted base ball cap? Peak to the front I do hope! A cap was part of my school uniform fairly rigorously enforced. I can't remember...
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    devonjim replied to the thread When Everyone Wore A Hat....
    I went to a football match on Saturday, I wore a cap, it kept the sun out of my eyes.
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    I'm rewatching the wonderful series "Full Steam Ahead" as a box set on PBS America (see British History). Well worth a watch or re-watch...
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    devonjim reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Acocks Green with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Stable yard at Hyron Hall Farm, Acocks Green, Birmingham creator: Fred Green. no date. (Birmingham Archives and Collections) The...
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    devonjim reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Acocks Green with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hyron Hall Farm, Acocks Green, Birmingham. 1938. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    devonjim reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Acocks Green with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hyron Hall Farm appears to have been roughly at the junction of what is now Hyron Hall Road and Starcross Road. The 2 red arrows are at...
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    devonjim replied to the thread Olton station.
    The statue is a Saxon King by John Mckenna But why is it there, who paid for it etc. What's the story?
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    devonjim replied to the thread Acocks Green.
    Shows how little traffic there was in 1930's to off load passengers in the middle of a traffic island. Apart from the trams that were...
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