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    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Ordinance survey maps with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Survey of Birmingham 1849. (The Builder)
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This was an important addition to the new Kingstanding community in the 1930s, there being few other places of entertainment or...
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    Morturn reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Odeon in Kingstanding, most recently a Bingo Hall has just closed and is now 'at risk' :confused...
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Street furniture with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some street oil lighting fittings on Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston. These are still in place today and are visible as part of some of the...
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Calthorpe Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Phyllis Nicklin must have feared that some of these buildings might disappear. Fortunately, many along this road have survived. This...
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    Morturn reacted to John L's post in the thread Coventry Airport closure with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Pity, I used it several times 25 years or so ago. It was no nonsense in and out, within an hour, my personal record was 10 minutes from...
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    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Hiroshima with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Did not realise there was a fadeout. They invited subscribers to pass story on. Have copied last part of article This gave the Peierls...
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    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Hiroshima with Appreciate Appreciate.
    38 Calthorpe Road was not only remarkable because of three key figures, Peieris, Frisch and Fuchs associated with the nuclear project...
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    Morturn reacted to Laurie_B's post in the thread 1953 Coronation Street Parties with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I can just about remember the Coronation street party that was held at the end of Cranes Park Road,near the junction with Whitecroft and...
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    Morturn reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread Grand Hotel Colmore Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Am article on the Grand Hotel from the BBC Birmingham website today.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxp1nxx72eo
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    Morturn reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Hughes Evelyn Margaret with Appreciate Appreciate.
    If she is (and I can see an address for that date) she would be 98 or 99 I think.
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    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Canals In Wartime with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is another picture from the IWM and is also for sale on Alamy. On Getty images it is £150-275 ! “With Miss March, dressed in...
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    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Canals In Wartime with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A cargo of steel which has been transported from London is unloaded from a pair of canal boats at Tysley quay on the Grand Union Canal...
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    Morturn reacted to rwdm's post in the thread Moseley College Wake Green Road/Yardley Wood Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I went to Moseley College from 1954 to 1957. My older sisters had been there before. It was very convenient as we lived in St Agnes...
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    Morturn reacted to superdad3's post in the thread Kings Heath with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Alcester Road South This is a view on Alcester Road South/Kings Heath looking towards Addison Road on March 9 1953 with a close up...
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