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Happy birthday Jackie. Have a super day x

I imagine that when the Erdington Tram Company closed down in the early 50's the Corporation Gasworks reused the building for a gas governor house.

Thanks Lyn. Looking from above it does seem to be the right building as marked on that old map too. Sometimes the map makers got it wrong, sometime they got it wrong deliberately as a test of copy-write breach too.

That’s interesting Lyn, on the map it is labelled as a waiting room on the map. I wonder when it was originally built? Maybe it was for the trams. I recall it in the late 60’s as public loos through the two doors either side and in the middle, it was used by the gas works as a regulator house...

I think that building is a gas regulator building that had public loos either side of it.

Yes, these recent news stories about PHP are indeed concerning, I too have noticed how slow the site has been this last few days, do other services share the server? In view of the recent forum slowness and the concerns about PHP and of course assuming the forum is in a safe pair of hands, are...

I do remember the White Helmets when we would go to Wembley to see the England school boy team. The would do their stuff before the match. The family has been a Birmingham family since the mid nineteenth century all motorbike fans apparently

Not sure but thinking along the lines of a pre unit Tiger 100?

That corner shop has been a car paint shop for a very long time

Unfortunalty is was fairly common to do this with young girls as was forced adoptions

I wonder who made the 15 horse-power paraffin engine? I am wondering if it was a Bolinder?

Velocette?

You have the Lyndhurst flats on the backgound, that was built 1959

On our behalf, the moderator team would like to say a big thank you to everyone for your very kind comments about Alberta. She was indeed a very special and unique individual and a joy to work with. As both a member and a moderator, she contributed so much in helping people with genealogical...

Mike, it maybe because the inlet sucks the gas from the producer on the intake stroke