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Thanks Warren! It does seem much better this morning, just an Ad at the top and bottom of the page but no pop ups in the middle.

I wonder is this is the same group https://www.birminghamsme.co.uk/ Founded in 1936 and still going strong

There certainly is the greyhound marked on the 1882 map at the same site The old Hare& Hounds, demolished 1929 , is shown below, and...

There wasa guy who worked for the Houseing Department called Stan Crump who used to do lots of fencing arond Kingstanding

Done loads of chestnut fencing on Finchley Rd had a Aunt & Uncle live at no44 so i got fed and watered there

My dad had his own version of 'Little Russia'. We lived in Atlantic Road and he claimed the winds were off the Atlantic Ocean...

I used to work around Kingstanding as an apprentice and recall some of the people around Old Oscott Lane and Darleydale Avenue calling...

Inshaw Steam Carriage 1882 John Inshaw from the Aston Manor area of Birmingham, seen here at the helm, said that he built this...

Sorted, thanks Viv

According to Wikipedia: Hockley Brook rises just outside the city, in Smethwick, and runs through Black Patch Park and then through the...

Thank you!

What exactly is a drag engine?

Heaton Brothers Steam Carriage Co. prospectus September 1833. Passengers conveyed at say 10 miles per hour, under present cost. (Aris’s)

“Dr Church's Steam Carriage. The works at Bordesley have in a state of great forwardness a Drag Engine, computed at 50 house power and...

There are two parts of this testing which was basically static testing that would be appropriate: dynamic testing which would vary the...