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    Dudley Road

    Yarnolds ,the milky bar and Rayleigh bike shops Dudley road looks like 1950s
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    Wellington street, Winson Green

    Railway inn wellington street Winston green .
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    Barrows Stores

    2 more barrows
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    Barrows Stores

    Just a couple more barrows pics.
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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

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    Gosta Green Through Duddeston

    I don’t think we have mentioned goodrick street school Saltley .Goodrick Street School was the first state school in Birmingham between Saltley Road and Fowler Street, and is now marked by a plaque.
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    Bull Ring 1930s - 1950s

    The bull ring , st martins and war damaged market hall.
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    Canals of Birmingham

    This one I don’t thinks needs a description we all know were it was . Disappeared a long time ago.
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    Bull Ring 1930s - 1950s

    This is one of my favorite pictures of spice all street ,st martins . When you look down to those buildings in the distance.
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    Bull Ring until 1920s

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    Bull Ring until 1920s

    At the time when this whole area was cleared, a small metal ring was removed from the middle of the ground between the Shambles and St. Martin's church. Can’t seem to find out if this ring was saved to go to the history museum or not.
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    Bull Ring until 1920s

    By 1553 the Cornmarket, the Welsh Market and the English Market were all apparently separate places. Westley’s map of 1731 shows the corn market in the Bull Ring, with the shambles above it and the beast market in the High Street… The cheese market was moved to the Welsh Cross in 1768. A Monday...
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    The Hollies Lee House & Shenstone Lodge

    Hi is that the hollies in smethick . I was there in the 1960’s the school I went to was wheelwright . I think . I also went back then in mid 1960s . Not my best experience.
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    Erdington Cottage Homes

    Go on to Birmingham council site . You can make a request for your family information . You will have supply proof of your connection . I got mine a few years ago it covered the 1960’s and early 70’ from my first stay in 1961.
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    The Square Old Square

    Old square was originally the priory of st Thomas from the 1200 s until 1546 . When it was sold off to build old square . The priory was situated north of Bull Street - then called Chapel Street after the priory's chapel of St Mary - in an extensive tract of its own land that extended as far as...
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    St Benedict 's Road Small Heath

    Junction of st Benedict’s road and Summerville road . I believe this picture was taken in the 1960s . I got married at st Benedict’s in 1981 .
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    Birmingham boxers

    Johnny Prescott was an orphan, and was resident at Josiah Mason's Orphanage, Orphanage Road, Erdington, he later lived with his grandmother on William Henry Street, Nechells, he was a fan of Birmingham City, i.e. a Bluenose, as a boxer he was managed by George Biddles.
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    Photographic studio Alum Rock Road

    They did my first wedding photos in 1981 .
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    Canals of Birmingham

    I think that was true it was a heath that went across to soho and there was some posh houses spread across Birmingham heath. Late 1700 s that’s when the glass housee was built then demolished to build the workhouse in the 1800s. There are some picture taken late 1900 when they dug the old mill...
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    Canals of Birmingham

    I believe before the prison was there that area was called Birmingham heath. But Isaac Hawker built his glass house just of the main canal as seen in the pictures.
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