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I’ve just been out with my dog, but I did avoid going into the woods with the risk of falling trees. All the dogs seemed extra lively, which apparently is quite common with groups of dog when it windy. Maybe its all the new smells blowing in.

Happy birthday, have a super day

You maybe right. I do know that some of the commercial building in the town had accommodation for caretakers. I think it was some offices on Temple Street that had a flat on the top flow, but sure you could see the off house on the roof of adjacent building too.You maybe right. I do know that...

In the days of working horses on the cut it was quite common aparanlty to just work the horses till they droped dead.

Does anyone know or have any suggestions as to the origin of Gone for a Burton? A couple I had heard are: Gone for a beer (Burton on Trent being the heart of the brewing industry) An RAF phrase to say someone had died in a crash Gone to join the armed forces. There was a suggestion that...

Just to let Birmingham History Forum members know, The Birmingham project will be exhibited in The Central Library Gallery from Saturday 25th January 2025 and on show until mid-April. The exhibition s free, so please do pop in and enjoy what is a super Birmingham community project.

It was indeed Pete, half a day to tax a car, if you were lucky to have the right forms, stand in the right queues and have the right money…… I did some UXB exploring in that old school as a kid.

If you lived opposite the school would you remeber the Newton family?

Thanks, thats the one I remeber as a kid.

Thanks for your kind offer of information. Unfortunately, member Jennyann passed away a while back, hence her avatar is showing “gone but not forgotten”

Happy birthday, have a super day

Happy birthday Pete have a super day!

Happy birthday, have a super day

It was quite common in my childhood to be taken to the pub with parents or grandparents and be given and bag of crisps and a glass of pop and told to play outside. There were always lots of other kids doing the same. I got to go to a few interesting places including The Golden Cross Short Heath...

It was, but then changed to 0121, but cannot recall when.

Thank you, thats kind of you to say so.

There you go Pen

I love the job title that goes something like Head of Strategic Planning or Planning Strategy etc. Commonly used in public bodies. Most people with half an ounce of business knowledge will know this is an utter contradiction, with strategy being a theory and planning a known quality. Two...

Edgbaston Pool with the golf course on the left and Winterbourne Gardens to the right

Robert, the older boy by about four years who would push insisted we sit on the outside under pain of death.