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  1. Bob Davis

    Hobbies 2021

    Thanks Bob
  2. Bob Davis

    Hobbies 2021

    WOW! and they offered me a 20% discount. Thanks Bob
  3. Bob Davis

    Hobbies 2021

    Thank you very much,it sounds fun,this could give me a retirement interest, I shall start to investigate it more closely, again thanks. Bob
  4. Bob Davis

    Hobbies 2021

    OK you have no doubt been waiting for some 'thicko to ask the stupid question, so wait no more here it is, obviously you don't have to load it with paper, so what is the finished object made of? How does it get in the printer and how do you get hold of it. Not in your hands, but who sells...
  5. Bob Davis

    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Cathy McGowan is Michael Balls partner. Bob
  6. Bob Davis

    Is this Erdington nr Birmingham ?

    Obviously fat finger struck again. Bob
  7. Bob Davis

    Is this Erdington nr Birmingham ?

    I would agree with MWS, Twilton's premises are at High Street, Erdington, but as picture postcards like this did not appear until the early 20th Century, this is a picture from an earlier era, made into a postcard. Was it postally used? Are there any Erdington post card collectors on the...
  8. Bob Davis

    High Street Aston

    Stay on the soapbox you are telling it like it is. Bob
  9. Bob Davis

    Scams: Telephone, email, texts, other 2021

    Yes it is always a robotic stilted voice Bob
  10. Bob Davis

    High Street Aston

    How right you are and of course if you look at a great many of the street pictures on the Forum, there is a corner shop. Nowadays, most of the corner shops that are left are owned by a larger retailer or if there are still individuals running shops (grocery or similar) they are also members of...
  11. Bob Davis

    Scams: Telephone, email, texts, other 2021

    Here is another side of the scam calls, since I started on my life of leisure, I notice that we get about four or five every morning as well as the little chap from Bangalore or wherever who wants o save me from the terrible virus that I have on my computer. Yesterday morning my wife answered...
  12. Bob Davis

    High Street Aston

    What a classic social history picture. Best of all is the guy wearing a tie on the site. No hi vis jackets, safety boots or hard hats, no ear defenders and most interesting of all no mechanical plant. The strange thing is that although the picture is only 70 years old, it shows the...
  13. Bob Davis

    United Talking Machines Co Ltd Broad Street

    Touche Bob
  14. Bob Davis

    United Talking Machines Co Ltd Broad Street

    John Thanks for posting a fascinating article. The 'boom box of the day and if you were not wearing a hat on a wet day,, you could pull the horn over your head. Boom Boom Bob
  15. Bob Davis

    Scanning

    Thanks
  16. Bob Davis

    Scanning

    Thank you all so much, now me and the four yeaŕ old next door are going to play with your ideas, I will let you now how I get on. Bob
  17. Bob Davis

    Saint Michaels No. 2

    Lady P How cruel at this point in the pandemic to show a man a picture of a pub.....how could you:):):) Bob
  18. Bob Davis

    Covid vaccination process

    Mine was purple well a sort of light lilac colour.
  19. Bob Davis

    Birmingham corporation transport

    .....and so say all of us, ask a question and the answer is there before you have posted it. Bob
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