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    A little row of shops

    The first one is 4 years old, I'm not sure about the other one.
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    A little row of shops

    Could it be this row of shops 152-170 (which I think includes the shops below)?
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    Who could forget? ;) (Pictured below as a candidate and with his band) Sadly he took his own life in 1999:
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    Sight loss in one eye can you claim benefit.

    There is nothing whatsoever to stop you making a claim to benefits. The question will be whether any benefits are paid to you as a result. That will be dependant upon the severity of your condition, upon it's impact on your ability to do day to day tasks and the extent of any help that you may...
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    Pubs And Clubs Of The 70s And 80s

    I used to pop in there occasionally in the late 70s & 80s. Downstairs was somewhere that you could go in for a quiet chat with friends. It is now run as a shop, but the second photograph shows it when it was still a pub following a name change and the third shows the old Grapes (before it was...
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    another pub closure

    Hopefully the owners will do as they have said and open it again as a pub. "Star Pubs & Bars Limited, want to now run it themselves". Such a nice old pub, both inside and out (as shown below). Filming of the first series of Call of Duty was done there, there is some super art nouveau tiling...
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    Happy birthday, Pete mwOnjm

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    Greys Department Store

    Just a youngster Barbara, like we all are at heart! ;)
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    Highcroft Hall Erdington circa 1936 to 1950

    The site now:
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    Highcroft Hall Erdington circa 1936 to 1950

    The old Highcroft hospital was mostly demolished in 1996 and new apartments were built upon the site in the 2000's, I think. The mental health service facility (Northcroft) was moved to modern buildings which are off Reservoir Road.
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    HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024

    A Happy 2024 to one and all! 1 - A bagpiper at close of business on this day in 1970 at Lloyds at the Rotunda. 2 - Auld Lang Syne at Centenary Square 1972. 3 - A New Year's Eve Ball at West Bromwich in 1970. (How it used to be done).
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    Its Brenda Barr's birthday

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    City Centre pubs

    It used to be "The Royal Mail".
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    School Dinners

    A Birmingham School at Dinner Time in 1961:
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    School Dinners

    Just one? ;)
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    CHRISTMAS WISHES 2023

    Happy Christmas to one and all! A Birmingham Greengrocer in 1947, Gingerbread hearts at the Christmas Market, Father Christmas at Lewis's and Cilla at the panto 30 years later.
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    Humorous And Interesting Newspaper Stories about Birmingham

    Nothing wrong with that chap's eyesight, he obviously had a steady hand too.
  18. J

    its janet hunts birthday

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    Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

    Sexagenarians and Septuagenarians do too... :grinning:
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    Christmas preparations past and present

    I'm with you on the sardine rolls Viv, although my Dad was happy to eat sardines straight from the tin (in oil as well as in tomato)! :eek:
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