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    Old English/Latin/Dog Latin

    Ask Susie Dent. :)
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    Old English/Latin/Dog Latin

    Are you sure it's Latin? I had a scroll through it and thought I detected a couple of Welsh words.
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    A gas turbine car

    There's a write up on Wikipedia under Rover BRM.
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    happy birthday to vivienne14

    Happy Birthday, that 21st really comes round quick doesn't it. ;)
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    Old street pics..

    I was working for Brooklyn Garage when Aldridge Road was widened to accommodate buses and the canal bridge removed, the garage belonged to the Brooklyn farming family member John Maybury, the house next door to his sister His sister sold the land on the next junction to a company called The...
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    Humorous And Interesting Newspaper Stories about Birmingham

    Soldiers all around, I wonder if it was a 'special' brought in to transport them and on an unfamiliar route.
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    Emigration from Birmingham

    I've been out there a few times Richard, their first place was UK government owned outside Ellicott City then when they resigned from their GCHQ jobs they bought a bungalow with a couple of acres of woodland on the edge of Cornflower creek which feeds into the bay. Her husband had a brain...
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    Emigration from Birmingham

    My brother and his family (a wife and 6 kids) went to Australia in 1970 we kept in touch, he came home a few times and I visited them a couple of times. Brother's passed now but his daughter calls me regularly and his sons have stayed with me on visits home. My own daughter after 5 years in the...
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    Anybody heard of a Helyage Or Kelyage Street?

    There's this from the late 1800s https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/warwickshire-bank-crash-1887-even-disastrous-great-fire
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    Anybody heard of a Helyage Or Kelyage Street?

    Certainly looks like that Janice........but who or what was Kelynge? ;)
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    tidy up please

    Looks like the camera had been drinking plenty of the same stuff as the guys. :)
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    CCSM ? Meaning

    I keep looking at the photos hoping to see one of my granddad Charles Coughlin, he was in the South Staffs all through WW1 and in the home guard but I don't know which regiment in WW2.
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    CCSM ? Meaning

    I wonder if that's really nothing to do with the military, maybe a civvy professional qualification, letters after his name such as FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) or similar, there are lots of them.
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    Anyone good at reading handwriting

    Ah thanks I can see it now, I thought it was something she'd been charged with not the prison locality. :( any idea what the numbers mean?
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    Anyone good at reading handwriting

    Sorry folks it's Irish prison register not Brum from 1899.
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    Anyone good at reading handwriting

    Popped in as an Ancestry hint this morning Janice together with 30 more pages of hints. I just did a screen copy of the part of interest to me.
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    Anyone good at reading handwriting

    Mary Casey in this prison list seems to be family but I can't read why in prison or what the figures mean.
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    Anyone good at reading handwriting

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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    I must have been away too long I recognise hardly any of the places photographed. :confused:
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    Use of genealogy section

    That's why I called it a trap Lyn, intended to catch people who forget to cancel. :) like me maybe.
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