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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    'Milk-Bar' on the left, the 'Yoofs' of the day would hang about in there. Two shops down is 'Marsh & Baxters' butchers.
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    Smallbrook Street

    'Milk-Bar' on the left, the 'Yoofs' of the day would hang about in there. Two shops down is 'Marsh & Baxters' butchers.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Here's the same bridge but this time looking from the Coventry road/ Watery lane junction.
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    Camp Hill locks

    Here I go again, sticking my neck out. I think the photographer is stood under the bridge at the junction of Watery lane and Coventry road. On the right is what used to be the the 'Council' rubbish yard. Just a thought.
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    Birmingham corporation transport

    It would be helpful if you could tell us the: Make and model. Year of manufacture Route(s) it worked Which garage it was assigned to Bob
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    Birmingham Mayor

    Is this the 'Harold Black, Radiologist'?
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    Music groups in pubs

    What was the name of your group?
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Here we go. I think (could be wrong) this is the junction of 'Great Charles Street' and 'Easy Row'. The man on the corner is looking into the Midland Red booking office.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Another great picture. Thanks.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    An update. I have found the following info that confirms that this is the building in the original posting. A company called 'Hydrapower Dynamics Ltd' purchased the building in 1996 (still trading). The original picture was taken in 1958 when the owners were 'John R Lee' decorator's merchants...
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    What I intended to say was; "This is a picture of St Mark's St, found on another site".
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    I think it is St Mark's street. Snippet attached.
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    1930s cycle makers decals

    https://cyclemuseum.org.uk/ is an option.
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    1930s cycle makers decals

    What a fabulous collection. Thanks for showing them.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    I remember this site when it was 'Colmore Depot BMC commercial vehicles'. The garage was next to 'Tucker Eyelets'. I think the garage in a previous life belonged to the 'Danish Bacon Co'. At the back of the workshops were the original smoking rooms and chimneys, one of which I think is in the...
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Scala cinema on the left. The Jester pub on the right.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    I have visited this place many times to have crankshafts reground and cylinders bored. One of the last companies in Birmingham to offer 'white metal' machining. There is a video I'm sure of the inside of this factory.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Another great picture. I can see Pruden's the barbers, can you? I have had my hair cut there many times.
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