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  1. Morturn

    Keith Berry's Photos (bhf Recovered)

    Yes, that's definitely possible. I have the professional software needed to extract the images from the PDF files directly, which will preserve the best possible quality. Once extracted, we can work as a team to categorize them by area and timeframe before posting them here. As a first step...
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    Keith Berry's Photos (bhf Recovered)

    It should be possible to extract the individual images form the PGF files and to post them on here. Do you know how each of the PDF file area arranged, i.e. grouped by place or road etc?
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    Pardoe’s Yard Ward End

    Hi and Welcome to Birmingham History Forum. The yard your referring to was Pardoes Yard on St Marys Walk and St Margrets Road, Ward End. The yard belonged to my Great Grandfather Herbert and wife Martha and he would convert old buses for family to live in. Lots of Gypsy family’s lived in...
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    tidy up please

    Here you go Lyn, is it your mom?
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    Phyllis Nicklin Photos

    I was in Key Hill Cemetery yesterday and noticed Phyllis Nicklins grandfathers grave marker on on of the Guinea Graves. Viv has identified some of here ancestors, so am wondering about posting the photo I took?
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    Key Hill Cemetery

    I popped out to Key Hill Cemetery today and did a 3D render of one of the many Guinea Grave markers. https://skfb.ly/pBs7t Around 80-100 people would have been buried up these markers.
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    Birmingham Walking Tours

    Hi Andy, I know this guy and hes very good: https://bluebadge.co.uk/places_visited.html
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    Alldays & Onions

    Richard It looks like by the style of the hosues that replaced it, it must have gone in the 1930's
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    WW1 recruitment parade in Corporation St

    Welcome to Birmingham History Forum. Thank you for post on the forum. We strongly advise members not to post their personal email addresses, phone numbers or any other personal information on the thread. Your email address and data could be harvested and used for scams, fraud, and identity...
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Verbina is another one I grow for the bees, it just seesmt o go on floowering the whole summer
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    Our childhood toys

    The “John Bull” printing set was a classic children’s toy.
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    Our childhood toys

    You could buy “Caps” for cap guns in little rolls coiled up in a small round paper box. We used to fold them over, double or triple etc to make a louder bang. One day I struck a whole box with a big stone, the resulting band nearly deafening me.
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I’ve had plenty of bumblebees. I grow lots of lavender and a few other bee friendly plants, that keeps them happy
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    That’s interesting Pete. I did notice out local blackbird looking a bit ragged so he must be in the moulting season then
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    Earl Grey

    Its not been demolished, its been repurposed again as Issacs Leagal Services now. https://maps.app.goo.gl/yUSvKN7RxH51mWf19
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    Aston Hall

    I have been to one of these events, it was quite good with lots of reenactors interacting with the visitors.
  17. Morturn

    Our childhood toys

    I had one and remember all the solid rods and roof. It was a bit fiddley and, in all honesty, I would make a start and never finish it.
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    Dolman Street Stores photos taken by Mark Tooze

    Nice photos Mark. The Canon nifty 50 f1.4 is a really good lens for stuff like this. The images quality does stand out and it has a beautiful shallow depth of field that you can use to isolate background clutter.
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    Science Museum Newhall Street

    There was an aeroplane cockpit like the one in your photo at the Newhall Street Museum right at the far end of the museum where you crossed over a redundant canal arm to the building that housed the Spitfire and Hurricane. I remember it because as a curious kid I was just bursting to sit in it...
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    Our childhood toys

    The one thing I remember about childhood toys was the advertising and artwork on the box depicted how you will have an amazing experience way over and above anything you could imagine and with a high degree of realism.
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