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    Girling Brakes - Tyseley

    Girling, Kings Road Tyseley 1940's/50's?
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    Longbridge Factory

    In addition to Wellingborough, Beans and Coventry (Morris Engines), cylinder blocks and heads were supplied by West Yorkshire foundry in Leeds. In the 1970's and 1980's, I worked for the company that supplied the different coloured block and head paints for all of these sites.
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    History of birmingham

    https://birminghamheritage.org.uk/ https://payhip.com/b/jbO5
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    Birmingham City fc

    !890/1906/1913 maps 1892/3 and 1893/4 teams
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    Birmingham?

    Some further back-ground information about Tranter's yard etc - I lived at 148 Grange Road (bottom of Bertram road on the map) in the late 1950's and early 1960's and I used to fetch coal in my brother's dilapidated pram every Saturday (except in high summer) from Tranter's yard. The yard was...
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    Birmingham?

    It's true that the lamposts on the Nelson photo do not match those on the submitted photo. However, the Nelson photo was an earlier photo (1951). If you consider the photo (number 1) that Lyn submitted on #131, this was taken from exactly the same position as the Nelson photo but looking in the...
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    Birmingham?

    Here's a photo of The Nelson pub in Grange road/Baker street in 1951. On the far Left hand side of the photo, you can just make out the entrance to the bag factory. Bertram road is about 50 yards further on. I lived opposite Bertram road in the 1950's. The old gas lamps were still evident in 1951.
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    Birmingham?

    There was a sack/bag factory (Midland Jute Bag co/ Levy Bros Ltd and Knowles Ltd) in Grange road in 1966. It was at no 47, between Eversley road and Bertram road. There was also a coal yard behind the sack factory in Green Lane. (Tranter's Yard -see attached photo- Butler's lamp factory in...
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    Small Heath

    It looks like it might be one of the Avenues off Green Lane.
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    IN OUR GARDEN 2024

    Here is the comprehensive, but not exhaustive RHS list of poisonous and irritant plants...scary! https://www.rhs.org.uk/prevention-protection/potentially-harmful-garden-plants
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    IN OUR GARDEN 2024

    Bought some lovely red flowering lobelia plants yesterday. It wasn't until we got them home and read up on them that we realised just how toxic and poisonous they are, so I'm afraid they won't be pride of place in the border!!
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    Picture re-touch

    My attempt. Very smart! Love the monocle! Also with added background, ....oops lost the end of his swagger stick!
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    Did You Have a Paper Round ?

    My first newspaper round route was at Fosters newsagents on the Coventry Road opposite the Coronet cinema and included two working men’s clubs. The morning round started every day at 7.00am, including Sundays, when the bag was so heavy that I had to go back to the shop three times for refills...
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    Picture re-touch

    My attempt
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    Picture re-touch

    Here's my attempt
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    Picture re-touch

    Here's my attempt
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    Photos - Uploading

    If you wish to resize lots of photos at once, this app is available in Microsoft store and there are number of other sites that offer it as a downloadable program for PC's and laptops... https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ndvjd459gm9?hl=en-us&gl=US
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    Picture re-touch

    My attempt
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    Arsenal Street

    An older photo of The Marquis of Lorne
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    Photo restoration

    A bit of guesswork in places I'm afraid
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