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  1. Morturn

    Its Michaelwicks birthday

    Happy birthday Michael have a super day
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    Nostalgia

    You can indeed, but most bikes today have chain guards and we don't wear bell bottoms to ride
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    Actors and actresses born in brum

    I met Maggie Moon many years ago when she went under the name Sandie Ann Lee, really pleasant person. I had always thought of her as a singer than actress. I think her dad was a fireman
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    Aston Viaduct 1850's

    Is that furthest left building Aston Hall?
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    Birmingham Lamp posts, ORIGINAL Colour please?

    I agree too, in the 60's the gas lamps were cream and maroon
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    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Hope you make a speedy recovery Richard.
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    Railway staff at Chester Road station

    When I was young in the 60’s and when Erdington station was a group of wooden buildings, they won best kept station of the year on several occasions and were runners up on other years. They hung all of the certificates on the ticket office wall on the Lichfield bound side of the station.
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    Happy Birthday Cookie273 (Eric)

    Happy birthday Eric, have a super day
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    happy birthday izzy eckerslike

    Happy birthday Izzy have a super day
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    Gas Street basin painting

    I agree, Eric's painting are a joy to look at.
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    Stag and Pheasant - Bromsgrove Street

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    Happy Birthday Alberta

    Happy birthday Alberta, have a super day
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    Witton Cemetery

    The council did try putting a rule out to state that you needed permission from the relatives to take phots of grave marker in Birmingham. I raised the issue with some of the elected members who quickly quashed it.
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    Church Road, Yardley.

    Absolutely. I personally quiet like hearing there past narrative story’s, they often give us something to talk about and in reality, we may never really know.
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    Church Road, Yardley.

    They are quite common on the older churches, the ones that the Victorians didn’t modernise. The have been known as devils claw marks. Some people call then arrow sharpening groves. Edward III’s passed a law in 1363, stating that all able-bodied men aged between 16 and 60 must practice their...
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    Happy birthday Richard Dye

    Happy birthday Richard, have an amazing day
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    The Ring O' Bells

    Its all gone now with houses built on the site
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    Birmingham Model Engineering Society

    The original AJ Reeves went into liquidation late 1990’s quite sad really as they were in my opinion a leading specialist in Model Locos etc. The dissolved company was bought up by a guy who owned a car towbar a trailer manufacturing company in Tamworth and relocated it to a site near Appleby...
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    Birmingham Model Engineering Society

    Pete, am I right in thinking that AJ Reeves the model engineering suppliers and makers of Moseley Road were involved with this club?
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