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Hi Lyn; just round the corner from where I used to live too (but not in WW2 I will hasten to add....) Amazing to think you could have a munitions factory smack bang in the middle of a tightly packed residential area - how many people would it have taken out if something had gone "bang"?

Hi Viv; if you look at virtually all the IWM photos I have posted everyone is spotless and most of the photos look posed - very much for propaganda I think - most are by official photographers as well. Any photos from these establishments would have been subject to censorship I guess -...

National Munitions Projectile Factory Dudley in WW1:-

MIlls Munitions Factory Bridge St West 1915:-

All these from the Imperial War Museum Website:- Cartridge Making Kynochs 1917:- Bullet Velocity Testing Kynochs 1917:- Cartridge Manufacture Kynochs 1917:- Cartridge Barrels Kynochs 1917:-

Nice photo! Hope you got well clear before that car arrived!

And of course there is always Crossroads - as Brummie as you could get - loads of episodes from the 70's and 80's on YouTube

Kids from 47A would be a good starting point - made in Birmingham in 1973 I think - pilot episode is here:-

Happy Birthday!

I hope the "legs" on this 42-storey building are well made...... Looks like the kind of thing International Rescue used to get called out to on a regular basis......... If you are going to indulge I would go for one of the flats at the back personally........

Display the photo, screenshot into word or powerpoint, then screenshot it again from there at a smaller size and try posting that - that's what I do and it seems to work.

Hi Harry; if you check my posts most feature photos from this period- although not of inside houses sorry!

You must have served us at some time then - we got nearly all our toys from McGauleys!

And me!

I bet somewhere there is already a clever lawyer working on loopholes...... hope I am wrong...... can the courts sequestrate assets of the convicted people in lieu of fine non-payments does anyone know?

If they are going to rebuild it do it at the Black Country Museum! At least it won't get burned down and demolished again! Bet it will cost a few bob though (a few million bobs I would think)........

Looks nice from my back garden in Sutton too (either that or the allotments behind the railway bank are on fire....):-

How about this one - courtesy of the IWM website - taken during the war at a pub somewhere in the West Midlands:- The guy on the left - "Trainee Homicidal Maniac"........

And a nice nearly-full moon tonight as well:-

It may have been a poor week weather-wise, but the end of day views have been superb - various posts above and this one tonight from Sutton Coldfield:-