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Recent content by Keith R

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    IN OUR GARDENS 2026

    These are all the same Butterfly...just different light.....A Gatekeeper.
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    Birmingham 1838 - 1938

    An obvious observation is that when the NHS came along average life expectancy would have shot up.......so many dying in infancy earlier was a crying shame.
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    1st picture shows houses along Witton Lane,all gone now.Dont know if Villa bought them all up to extend the stand or not.Used to be the chippy near this end..it might be the building in the picture and terrace houses further along . Used to go to matches on my Honda 90 and park in a blokes back...
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    Harrisons Ltd Bradford St. Birmingham. Curtain rail Manufacturers.

    Worked in Alcester St during 80's and early on parked car in Green St by a place dealing in tyres (probably a garage) and they didnt like me being there but its a free world so sod 'em...anyway after we had left spotted Dog one lunchtime the garage had put loads of cones all over my...
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    Lordswood Maternity Home

    1957
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    Winters of 1947 and 1963

    Not all bad then....LOL
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    Newspapers : Newspaper Archive new issues of local journals

    Does this mean I can view say 1911 from Birmingham Daily Post. I just looked and need to sign in.
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    skip Ads

    yes wish I knew
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    skip Ads

    Thanks a lot.
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    skip Ads

    I disabled the pop ups...but cant remember how...lol and the skip ads went BUT now has come back.
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    skip Ads

    when I opened this site I got this "skip ads" at top of page and also on that thing that slowly comes up at bottom of page ( which is a right old pain)... Anyway I clicked to get rid and was on a merry go round and eventually multi pop ups/warnings etc etc until I remembered how to turn off that...
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    Cotteridge

    Mom-in-law and Wife Cotteridge Park with their house in Franklin Road behind 1957
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    Computer help please 2025

    I tried using the stuff on the link and got nowhere............no sure it went to "explorer" with windows + E. As I say I have zero understanding of computers.
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    Computer help please 2025

    Sorry not been on all day.....No I haven't found the file yet.
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