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    Dinger reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Clocks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    summer lane pedro lyn...
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    Dinger reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Birmingham City Hospital officially closes with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I was at City Hospital again yesterday (I'm falling to bits.....) and got some more photos of the demolition which is now progressing...
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    Dinger replied to the thread Lickey Hills.
    Definitely the Old Rose and Crown on Rose Hill in the Lickeys - Thiese photos illustrate just one of the many points that identify it as...
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    Dinger reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Rackhams Store with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Are we talking about the same Birmingham here? I've been into town today and the place was wonderful. I was there last weekend too...
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    Dinger reacted to rob693's post in the thread Wimpy Bars in Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yes, I remember it as being further up New Street, closer to Victoria Square.
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    Dinger reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Brickworks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below is a photo of Smart's brickworks, in Stonehouse Lane, California, together with a map of them from 1901. I am not sure exactly...
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    Dinger reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Brickworks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    could be stonehouse lane houses in the distance mike lyn
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    Dinger reacted to MWS's post in the thread Brickworks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    From somewhere about here perhaps, you can see the square of the chimney marked to the left of the building (map flipped)...
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    Dinger replied to the thread Brickworks.
    I'd say its looking in the exact opposite direction - the houses are the older houses that line Alwold Road - with the "Rifle Range"...
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    Dinger replied to the thread Wimpy Bars in Birmingham.
    There used to be a cafe up that end of New Street I used to frequent in the late 70s and early 80s that had the "look and feel" of being...
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