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    Rhode car

    Yes Lloyd doesn't look gold it was a question that needed an answer. ;)
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    Rhode car

    On the inner rings it has 325, is that a part number or a gold hallmark?
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    Tallyman

    Remember "Come Mr Tallyman tally me bananas." Harry Belafonte?
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Beyond the pale. ;)
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    There used to be one at Kingstanding Circle.
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    D.N.A. TESTING

    Ancestry tells me every day that they've found some 'hints' but want to charge a lump to see them. :(
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    Lewis's Department Store

    Piercings...........self inflicted injury.:)
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    Woolworths Memories

    This is my regular reminder of Woolworths, when I moved in this spot was occupied by a couple of overgrown Leylandii's, I cut them down and replaced them with this, £9.00 from Woolies.
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    Cock Inn Coventry road Elmdon.

    We have one of those locally, one of the factories had an American visitor, a factory girl told him of a police chase through the town, "They chased him past the Hare and Hounds and the Church Inn and the Red Lion and caught him by the Cock." :blush:
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    Chain Walk, Birmingham

    My memory of the Chain Walk is, back as a child our family had been to see Aunt Ada in Victoria Road, when we came out to go home there was one of those thick yellow smogs so we couldn't see more than a yard in front. Dad said "We can follow the tram lines to Perry Bar." but we missed the turn...
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    Those Z vans at the post office had rubber front wings...........obviously didn't think much of the driver's skills. ;)
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    Birmingham City Police 1839 - 1974

    I recall a mate who worked as a Co-op milkman, he stepped down from the cart as the horse shied and twisted the turntable fracturing his femur, Visiting him in the Accident hospital he pointed out a few cops who had damaged ankles and tibs & fibs caused by coming to grief on the motor scooters...
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    I found an empire safe

    Quite a few old safes on Ebay at all prices, might be worth a try, lots of 'watchers' on the ones listed.
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    Whites Removals

    In Hay on Wye just about every other shop does second hand and vintage books, I wonder if an enquiry there might find what you want.
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    Sutton Coldfield Station

    My brother would have been sixteen when he started there as porter shunter in 1961, once shown the ropes he was often left on his own while the main man went off...........to the betting shop? I now he was paid well and spent most of his pay in the camera shop in Sutton on his way home.
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    Sutton Coldfield Station

    As I said Mick I've never been to where he worked all I know is that it was Sutton and he worked for BR.
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    Sutton Coldfield Station

    My brother Douglas, sadly no longer with us, worked there as a porter shunter, from memory it seems his main work was for Royal Mail trains and I assumed they had a separate yard on site although I've never been to the station.
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    Whites Removals

    Whites did our move when we came from Great Barr to the Forest of Dean in 1965.
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    Marriage laws change 27th February 2023

    I and my wife married at seventeen, it worked for us.
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    Birmingham's pioneering motor industry - Dallison Gearing, Universal Motor Body Builders, Flewitts

    303 Broad Street must be somewhere close to where P J Evans and the Hangar Motors showrooms were, Watson where I worked was at 297.
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