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    Gun Trade Factories

    What a very interesting Piece. Viv.
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    Horse Fair

    Great History Viv.
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    Erdington postmen heroes remembered

    Well done Lyn, so very important for our cultural history, that these names of lads, who served and paid the ultimate sacrifice. I did something similar, here in Cambridge, for the Gas company pals.
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    Central Fire Station HQ

    THEY ARE DESTROYING EVERYTHING I REMEMBER , THAT MADE BIRMINGHAM GREAT, HARDLY ANYTHING REMAINS FROM MY CHILDHOOD.!!!
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    Georgian consumerism in Birmingham

    Great piece of social history!!
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    Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

    Great paintings. Pedro, thanks for posting.
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    Woodlands Park Preparatory School, Weoley Castle

    Dear old Weoley Castle, seems a lifetime away now!!
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    Birmingham buses

    Ha, the Ivy Bush, my local for a while!!
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    National Service

    Great reads,!!all gone now, Caterham, a housing estate, Pirbright, D' Lines,and Gods acre all gone, along with drill sheds, and Wessex on a pole!! Though to survivre 1960's, Pirbright, " Hell hath no Pain, as Guards Depot,Pirbright." My best mate John Corefield, 1st batt GG!! Anybody do a SHAPE...
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    Market Hall 1835 - 1963

    I so love these photos of Brum, from my time.
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    Ladywood

    Really miss Alan, (Astonian), great bloke, and very knowledgeable about Brum!!
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    Temple Row

    Great read, and historical background to a major B, Ham place!!
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    A lot of "status", at this time Pedro, maybe to do with that, or just the type of work!!
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Sobering thought, that most of those would have gone to war in a couple of years, given the statistics of WW1, perhaps 25% would not have returned to cadburys in 1919.
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    Woodman Public House Easy Row

    When I was at school we did a period of Birmingham's industrial history of the 19th C, I remember at the time that I was amazed at the amount of foreign interest in our city, and the amount of Industrialists, from all over the world who would come to visit. So maybe as a central pub, which even...
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