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    John L replied to the thread Steam Locos.
    It won't be open for 10 - 13 years though and it then won't be going to Euston from Curzon Street, passengers will instead travel to Old...
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    John L replied to the thread Steam Locos.
    My son travels between New Street and Euston to his home in London quite often and I'm sure that he would agree, that particularly on...
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    John L reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Steam Locos with Appreciate Appreciate.
    For the time that is quite an impressive achievement
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    John L reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Steam Locos with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Aug 1902, Birmingham to London in 1hr 55 mins… (The Engineer)
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    John L reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread For those interested in Black country History with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Banks’s History to be preserved… https://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/news/iconic-bankss-brewery-history-be-preserved
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    John L reacted to loveday's post in the thread BSA Factory In Blitz with Appreciate Appreciate.
    As a child I lived in Hall Green,71 Doveridge Road and our neighbour next door but one had four boys so with four of us we were always...
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    John L reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    the old cinema on the walsall road is also a banqueting suite same thing happened to the old aston transport musem so we are not exactly...
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    John L replied to the thread Kingstanding Odeon.
    What a good idea! My wife and her friends often go to the flicks at Sutton. On Wednesday afternoon's it's £5 for a film and a coffee/tea...
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    John L replied to the thread Kingstanding Odeon.
    A bit Mike, but they will probably accept the challenge again. There seems to be little will to stop them or to catch them in the act...
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    John L reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    all we can do is hope that if someone buys it it is used to serve the community...i would hate to see it go to rack and ruin like this...
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    John L reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sadly, I suspect this will "only be a matter of time"....... hope I am wrong.........
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    John L replied to the thread Kingstanding Odeon.
    I see the old cinema was subject to "suspected arson" in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday 11 August, emergency services were...
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    John L reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This was an important addition to the new Kingstanding community in the 1930s, there being few other places of entertainment or...
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    John L reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    this is very sad news indeed....i was allowed upstairs a few years ago now and all the original seating was still intact... lyn
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    John L reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    recently closed as a bingo hall this building is now under threat..there is a petition on facebook to sign its a wonderful building and...
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