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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This picture is an old printers shop in Garrison Lane seems to be on its way out, no windows tiles off the roof and the old red and...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    apologies the skewed image - shows what I have to start with but also if I straighten it I lose the building at the top and with it the...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This information is a recap for newcomers, I scanned a lot of negatives of these old images - see the initial post for more...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now move onto Roll 72 and something different to start and may be of use to someone although the information provided is a bit vague...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now have a bit of time travel to 1964 and a view of what this area looked like, and what was lost - lots of three and four storey...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is an interesting sign - showing the site where Arthur Conan Doyle lived , I cannot add to this as my noted read - old sign Aston...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    and we now turn around to look toward the City Centre, looking to the distance you can see the holes in the landscape - all the old...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I know we have been up and down this road a few time this is a general view of the destruction, sorry redevelopment to improve the...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next picture forms a theme as this was closed the week before - its The Avenue, Aston Street North, as you can see it is still intact...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next we move to Thimble Mill Lane and Long Acre, this is the Prince Of Wales , not long closed but now boarded up and the windows broken...
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    Morturn reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Good morning apologies for the gap in posts, lot happened , but I will try and continue posting. I did notice a number of replies from...
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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread W J Myatts Co Silversmiths - FrederickStreet with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Myatts in 1921 were at the Argent works, who are listed in Kellys as in Graham Street,. ,But this was on the corner of Frederick Street...
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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Bordesley Green with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a photo of 204 to 216 Bordesley Green in 1967. Kellys shows that in 1967 204 was Reg Burt , butcher; 206 was Mrs M.J.Twist...
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    Morturn replied to the thread Hall Green Technical College.
    Thank you for your post. I am indeed an x Hall Green student and will drop you a line soon.
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    Morturn reacted to IsabelleFreeman's post in the thread Hall Green Technical College with Appreciate Appreciate.
    That's amazing! So glad you could take this into your working life. I'm not sure if you saw my previous comment about the campus turning...
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