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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Chelmsley Wood with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The bluebell wood on the site of what was to become Chelmesley Wood estate
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    Morturn reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Summer Lane with Appreciate Appreciate.
    map of the guinea gardens also posted on below thread...
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    Morturn reacted to ocker's post in the thread Worcester beacon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Thank you so much for your input. It is amazing that so much positive information has been obtained from this site and the wonderful...
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    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Worcester beacon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Almost certainly Worcestershire Beacon, the clue is the stepped topograph to the left of the beacon, Queen Victoria’s 60th year in 1897...
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    Morturn reacted to Pedro42's post in the thread Worcester beacon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I can't answer your question I'm sorry, but I've taken the liberty to clean up your photo. I hope that you don't mind
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    Morturn replied to the thread Worcester beacon.
    Hi it most certainly is I have been to Worcester Beacon several times and know it well.
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    Morturn reacted to ocker's post in the thread Worcester beacon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hello to the group. I have only one photo of my father which i thought was taken c1930 in Epsom Surrey as he was born and orphaned...
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Summer Lane with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some history. Where exactly was St George's - in - the - fields church (built 1822) ? Soirce: British Newspaper Archive
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The late Dennis Williams posted this on another thread - shows more detail of 'The Grey House'. The former Dispensary building is to the...
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Union Street Dispensary building (also [later ?] known as Union Chambers) was demolished in the 1950s The photo below may be dated...
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    Morturn replied to the thread Its Key Hill Brians Birthday.
    Happy birthday, have a super day
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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Birmingham horse drawn buses with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Browns Green three-horse bus ran from Colmore Row and Handsworth around 1890 to the early 1900s. I am not very knowledgeable about...
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    Morturn replied to the thread King Kong Statue.
    To me it’s one of those things that was of it time. It was a novelty, but I don’t see it as part of the Birmingham identity or a...
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    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Salvation Army Home for Working Men with Appreciate Appreciate.
    C1915.
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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Union Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is Union Street in the 1950s. Very run down, though the old dispensary is still standing, though now subdivided, with a nesagent in...
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