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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Turning round we can see a wider view of the New John Street / Summer Lane junction, lots of cones and plenty of the old style wooden...
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    Morturn reacted to devonjim's post in the thread Church with graves with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Gave this link a try using family data, at first without sucess but tried again not providing DOB and did much better, seems less is better!
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    Morturn reacted to Dinger's post in the thread Longbridge Factory with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Great that you saved that bit of roof! - I used to often work as a sub-contractor in the Flight Shed in the 80s. I maintained the...
  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Church with graves.
    A long shat but worth a go here: https://www.findagrave.com/
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We have now followed the new inner ring road down to New John Street West and Summer Lane and the the Texaco garage , in the process of...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now start heading back towards Hockley on the inner ring road - work is still ongoing but most of the infrastructure is in place...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now move to the other side of the bridge and see how big the building site is - there are barriers and piles of rubble everywhere...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    and a final closer look at the site and we can see in this picture that there is work to both sides of the road and they are loading and...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Moving down Icknield Street we can see the work to remove the buildings and embankment, we can also see the the bridge across the road...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Another location - hop over to Hockley and Pitsford Street to see how the inner Ring Road is coming along, we are now back to see the...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Roll 56, first up looking up Avenue Road , to Aston Road North, nothing much to add quite a standard 1990's landscape - nothing left...
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    Morturn replied to the thread Longbridge Factory.
    The roof construction of the ‘flight shed’ sounds like it was patent ‘Lamella’ roof, quite often seen in the construction of aircraft...
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    Morturn reacted to Velox Chris's post in the thread Longbridge Factory with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi there! I was always fascinated by the building known as the 'Flight Shed' at the lower end of Lowhill Lane. It seemed an unusual...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This street has a strange ghostly feel about it - this time non of the properties are boarded up, streets are empty no obvious damage -...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This time the shop is on the corner of Stretton Street and again any uncovered windows have been broken. Judging by the size of the...
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