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    Pollution monitoring

    There are several main roads around Chester which have had speed limits reduced from 70mph to 50mph based on monitoring air pollution. Maybe Birmingham is looking at reducing 30 mph limits down to 20 in places.
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    Street furniture

    Does anyone remember the fire alarms on street corners. Bright red posts with a box on the top, It has a glass panel which you could break to summon the fire brigade. There was one close to where I lived in Saltley in the 1950's, I think it was on the corner of St. Saviours rd. and Hall Rd...
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    "Red Lion" pub near a fish market?

    Unlikely to be Birmingham, it's about as far from the sea as you can so you would not expect to meet any sailors here, only bargees off the "cut".
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