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He is a star and such and interesting with a lot of lived experience. I have been following the You Tube channel myself

Mark, many thanks for this fun quiz. I am thinking number 6 is an oil pot with a dipper. I have seem stuff like this in the building trade for placing a spot of oil on hinges.

Yes that's right the motor boat. They had one in Sutton park too. I cannot remember if there was a cafe at Brookvale. if so It would have been above the boat house like at Witton Lakes.

Brookvale Park did not have a model yacht club. It have rowing boats and then a manned yacht club. The yacht clubs were at Witton Lakes uper lake and Bournville Lake who still operate

Thinking about the house at a right angle to the road, I suspect it's here Viv

I am thinking its the corner of Marsh lane and Gypsey Road

I know i can be done in Google earth, but the National Library of Scotland has a super collection of maps, free to use and without all fo the personal data gathering too. There is also a programme called QGIS where you can make your own custom map layers. Did you have anything specific in mind?

It looks to me like the old Taylor Memorial Home now called the Birmingham Hospice - Erdington

Thanks, I did look at this and the Church Warden said it had been restored. I am glad to know that its been done really well with no doubt conservation grade materials

Apologies Mike that was my error it is as you point out Thomas Mills & Son. Thank you too for the information..

I popped out to look at St Chad Church in Wishaw today. It’s a church that stands almost on its own as Wishaw does not really have a village centre. To the north there is what was a country house, now the Belfry. To the southeast there is a moat form a moated manor house 1Km away and another one...

Indeed she was a lovely kind dog, glad to have known her.

Let's take a moment to remind ourselves how this thread started – it was about an AI photo restoration to help someone identify an ancestor. It's useful to have this discussion to help other members gain a better understanding of the subject, especially now that we're seeing a few AI-manipulated...

Your spot on with that Viv eyes, hands and fingers and the HDR look. There are a few so-called Birmingham History Face Book groups who are posting AL slop and getting all nostalgic about a golden past that never way. It making a nonsense out of encouraging people to think about the past and events

AI’s origins go back to ancient myths about artificial beings endowed with intelligence by master craftsmen – from Greek automatons to Hebrew golems. That idea carried forward into the modern era, most famously through Alan Turing's work on computability and his 1950 paper on thinking machines...