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    Where did you live

    Good to know, I used live at number 40.
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    GLASTONBURY

    Good to see Robert Plant at Glastonbury over the weekend. Still remember going to the Shepton Mallet festival in 1970, the forerunner of Glastonbury. Still remember having a pint of " rough and black " at Mothers in Erdington with Robert Plant, John Bonhan and John Peel. Must be getting old and...
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    Good classical music on YouTube

    I've just found this thread so I apologise in advance if this question has already been asked/answered. How old does music have to be to be "classed " as Classical ?
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    I understood that Union meetings are still held there but I could be wrong, Old Age ?
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    Baldwin Family

    I remember your Dad, he came away with us on a large family holiday to Butlins the one year,I think it was to Bognor Regis. I wasn't very old but I travelled back home with him and Laurie and was very sick all over the back seat of the car.
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I worked at J.W. Hinks and Co. but they were in Smethwick. I left in 1987.
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    Birmingham Christmas of the past

    Dad was a Postie until early 1980's, started at 4.00 am Monday to Saturday. 2 deliveries a day, parcels delivered separately and I forget how many collections per day, certainly more than one !
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    Christmas greetings 2021

    Yuletide Felicitations to One and All
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    High Street Erdington

    Before Chadds then.
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    High Street Erdington

    That's interesting, whereabouts in Hereford was that ?
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    Birmingham Nightclubs of the Past - Memories

    It's good to know that someone else remembers the good times of finishing work at lunchtime on Christmas Eve and heading for town, and last minute shopping of course !
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    old car snaps

    Very true
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    old car snaps

    I also had difficulty avoiding a Reliant in the winter, a few years later though. I had just collected my wifes mini from the garage who had repaired the recent body damage she had sustained due to bad road conditions, so she said ! Went down a local side road that had ice packed ruts all along...
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    Adverts of yesteryear.

    You are right Maurice but that doesn't mean they are. If they didn't condemn anything they wouldn't have a job. How many times has the advice about butter or red wine changed ?
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Don't knock the burgers, remember the ones we used to have from the street vendors in town whilst we waited for the late night bus on a Saturday night !
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Did anyone try Jonathons, I hope that's the right spelling. It was at the crossroads of Hagley Road and the Wolverhampton Road at Quinton. It was a Victorian Style restaurant, I could only afford to go once and had Jugged Hare which was delicious.
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Do they still exist ?
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    TGIF on Hagley Road, not sure which decade though. Mom and Dad always went for the Old House at Home on Lordswood Road if they were meeting friends, I think it was a Berni
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    Covid vaccination process

    Get it while you can, who knows what is going to happen in the next couple of months with all the " politics" going on.
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    Lost Birmingham Pubs

    Rough 'n' Black
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