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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    One of the many casualties was this small garage - obviously been there years, the brick built frontage was original and large...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next we seem to be standing on the central reservation looking down Icknield Street, the bridge in the distance is the replacement for...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now turn around to look back up the road with the underpass and Key Hill, we can see from the signs the delays and inconvenience that...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Crossing what is now the traffic island and we can see the work to create the roundabout, Lodge Road is to the left of the white...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Now at the bottom of the road where Key Hill and all the other roads join as I said piles of rubble and a lot of destruction and lots of...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    another Pub this one is Woodman Inn Sherlock Street all dark wood and leaded windows, three storeys at the front stepping down to two at...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Not sure if I have posted this one - its the Old Bull Ring from 1910 - or if it has been posted before - sure you will point it out if...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The rising sun is the next pub we have - I am afraid rather a stark image - I had to stretch the limits to get a viewable image -...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next pub is the Wellington - Corner of Balsall Heath Road and Mary Street, like the symitry of the view we have here - central door...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Back to a few pubs Bath Tavern on the corner of Gooch Street and Kent Street North. not much to add corner entrance and leaded windows...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The next picture is rather vague -old houses in Lee bank 1960, few silly thoughts, love the wooden fencing ( pailings- is that the...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This image is listed as bottom of Lee Bank but then says believed to be Lodge Road - does that make sense? Some of the last building...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Remember the pork butcher H Knight a few images ago - to the right of that shot is a line of buildings - this is Albion Works, Great...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This image has lots of history in it - plenty that you would not get these days, this is Dawsons The Ironmongers, again taken in 1966...
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    Keith R reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Back to Roll 51, firstly corner of Lee Bank and Elvetham Street apparently some of the last buildings to be demolished in the area in...
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