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Another one which has a hole punched for some reason

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Here we have a series of market tokens from various traders in the Birmingham wholesale markets. They were posted on a forum called Worldofcoins (the link will take you to the thread where you can view comments etc). Permission is granted to post them here. The owner would like to hear from...

My wife joined the local lunchtime WI in 1983 when we had our first child, it was probably an experiment to attract new members as most groups meet in the evening. All the women had babies or toddlers with them or were pregnant o_O she has remained close friends with several of them after all...

My wife had a strange one from a WI lady who my wife knows very well, she was asking if we could buy an ipad for her off Amazon and send it to her son and she would repay my wife at the next WI meeting as she doesn't have an Amazon account herself. My wife thought it very strange that she would...

A fantastic building to look at and it's so big as well, according to the article they never let out rooms upstairs either so it was never a proper hostelry so what did they do with all those rooms upstairs?. A mile back along the Bristol Rd towards Longbridge is another grade 2 listed pub...

Does anyone know anything about a token like this? 1 and a 1/2 pence and made of some kind of plastic, what would it be used for?

I've only just cottoned on your talking about the aqueduct :D

I have a rare book, "A Numismatic History of the Birmingham mint" it shows photo's of all the coins made by Heatons mint for countries all over the world., Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, India, Mombasa, China, European, African and South American countries, the list goes on to cover just about...

Here,s another one showing the two statues in 1948

My first school was at Kings Norton Green in 1951, I remember I had problems with the school dinners and the worst was the gravy being all thick and lumpy, to this day I've avoided thick gravy and have mine really thin in a separate jug. I even take my own in a small flask if we go to a carvery :D

We always preferred Brean and camped there a few times when the kids were little, climbing up all those steps at the far end you get a view across to Weston and at the far end is the old fort which was built to protect a possible invasion by Napoleon, you could explore it for free and see the...

If your Steve you must be in the second B&W photo below the one above ?

There is a blog:- https://coventryfolkclubs.blogspot.com/2012/08/scotch-mist-electric-folk-band-c1974.html and photo's https://keithjonesmusic.wordpress.com/bands/scotch-mist/

It definitely does so must advertise the services of a painter and decorator, above is probably his name in small lettering and then higher up is more large lettering which might be another tradesman sharing the advert. Alternatively of course it might read as WALLPAPERS PAINT and everything...

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