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    Grandma VIVIENNE 14

    How lovely congratulations Viv and family
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    Back of Key Hill

    Thanks Mike
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    Back of Key Hill

    Thanks Janice
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    Back of Key Hill

    Mike thank you I had never heard of it before. So would it be by Hadley Street?
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    Back of Key Hill

    Has anyone heard of Malthouse Square, Key Hill?
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    1921 Census.

    FMP and transcription errors. https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/findmypast-promises-to-fix-1921-census-transcription-errors/
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    1921 Census.

    Dont even bother to pay £2.50 for the transcription as it appears there are lots of mistakes as it was transcribed in another country. You need the original £3.50 only. I was hoping that at some point soon Ancestry would make FMP an offer to pay a substantial amount to them so they could share...
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    Alton Douglas

    If you search on here there are lots about him
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    Dunlop

    Fort Dunlop - Credit Train spotters. https://www.trainspotters.co.uk/the-dunlop-light-a-phoenix-from-the-ashes/
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    Dunlop

    The price of rubber collapsed around that time and they probably had great losses so probably people were laid off
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    Duchess Place Three ? Or Edgbaston House ?

    They were originally large houses and some were turned into small hotels before they were demolished to make way for car parking facilities for the offices.
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    Duchess Place Three ? Or Edgbaston House ?

    It was the first time I had ever heard of a Mezzanine floor
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    It still wont compare with our memories
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    Aston hippodrome

    I have just watched the TV programme about Mountbatten and they said his wife Edwina had an affair with him for a long time.
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    Birmingham Christmas of the past

    I know when our postman has been, rubber bands on the drive!
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    Birmingham Christmas of the past

    I have already seen an advert for Valentine's day.
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    Google Lens

    This is what I now get on mylaptop. (Rocky Lane photo is an example)
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    Google Lens

    Its on my laptop not my phone
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    Google Lens

    From today I have noticed that if Im trying to find info on a photograph its coming up as Google Lens (instead of just Google). All it does is show comparisons of the original photo with no info. Has anyone else had this?
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    Irving, Washington Irving (Rip Van Winkle)

    I was in Peter Leather's course of Re-writing the History of Birmingham and my subject was The Argent Centre. In it I wrote 'In 1818 an American born business man named Henry Van Wart lived in a large house on Newhall Hill. It had a big garden with a drive entrance facing onto what is now known...
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