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    Keith R reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Jamaica Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    “I wonder if the Political Correct Gang would allow Sambo to be called Sambo even though Sambo was as white as the driven snow and a...
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    Keith R reacted to Genmac1's post in the thread Linotype operator with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My brother was trained as an apprentice Mono Type Setter at K & J's in West Bromwich and went to night school at Birmingham School of...
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    Keith R reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Linotype operator with Appreciate Appreciate.
    That's an excellent description, Dionysus! My scout master was a printers' engineer and took a small party of us round the print shop...
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    Keith R reacted to Dionysius//88's post in the thread Linotype operator with Appreciate Appreciate.
    At the post and mail 1the lino operattors sat there duly typing away with a lump of lead on achain at the back of there machines . They...
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    Keith R replied to the thread Linotype operator.
    As kids you could use John Bull sets and play at printing..... Linotype was Hot Metal setting but when I was apprentice from 1968 the...
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    Keith R reacted to NoddKD's post in the thread Linotype operator with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Is letterpress printing in use or has that died out? NoddKD. Briefly a machine minder apprentice.
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    Keith R reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Linotype operator with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Linotype operator Linotype machines were used by newspapers and magazines for typesetting from the late 19th century until the 1980s...
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    Keith R replied to the thread Italians in Birmingham.
    We also had a POW camp just up the road on Groveley Lane Longbridge just before The Austins........its said they built Lowhill Lane that...
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    Keith R replied to the thread Italians in Birmingham.
    My Wifes tree has an Italian link from Newcastle Under Lyme. I think they were coal miners there but the one man who married wifes...
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    Keith R replied to the thread Yardley Cemetery Plot Map.
    I think they need to redo the map(s)...
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    Keith R reacted to Llij's post in the thread Yardley Cemetery Plot Map with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi have been reading all of the messages about trying to find a section, I am also trying to find the section marked as E I have the...
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    Keith R reacted to Lloyd's post in the thread John Bright Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The northern 2/3 of the road from the Navigation Street / Hill Street junction to Lower Severn Street is pedestrianised, from there to...
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    Keith R replied to the thread John Bright Street.
    Am I correct that you can't drive down here nowadays.
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    Keith R reacted to mikejee's post in the thread John Bright Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Three more
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    Keith R reacted to mikejee's post in the thread John Bright Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    These have probably been on before, but not on this thread
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