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    Definition of “Brummie”, “Astonian” etc

    Hi Yep I can still see all those people in the Queues waiting to go home from the Lickey hill from the Tram Terminus. It was a large Circle the Trams did to turn around as far as I can remember. I think the Tram Rails are still there. Around 1951/52. The noise on them was deafening and the...
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    Grove Lane Swimming Baths, Handsworth

    Hi Yep good old HTS can still taste the water as Mr Stokes yelled at us to kick kick when were learning to Swim. The Good thing about those Baths were our lessons there started a little later so we could sleep in a little later. Nice walk back via the Tuck shop Grove lane. Mike Jenks
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    The Oak Selly Oak, The old white lion lancaster street

    Hi yep great Photos Mike Jenks
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    Canals of Birmingham

    Hi Yep they were green in my days chlorine from the Gas Works etc. Mike Jenks
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    Jasper Carrott

    hi No 1 Brummie Happy 68 Mike Jenks
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    New Street Station 1967 - 2014

    Hi Yep as a young Kynoch Apprentice everyday from 1959 to 1964 I would alight from St Martins Church and walk thro to the no 39 Witton Bus. It was a fabulous walk thro the Bull Ring development. I knew every nook and cranny being also a Trainspotter at New St. The Midland Bus Station was a god...
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    JFK Kennedy Memorial Mosaic

    hi Really good news about JFK in Digbeth. Back home to all my Irish Morans and McCans Ancestors. Mike Jenks
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    New Birmingham library plans

    Hi I'm just cringing on what the Royal Prince of Wales will say. His last comment was a Carbuncle on the Existing one. The new one has a Chinese Birds nest Soup appearance. Clearly its down to Mike Whitby on the vast amount of Money allocated to the New Library and the Re-Build of the area...
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    The Spitfire

    Hi just had a Fantastic piece on Flog it. A south African Air force Spitfire fully restored took 9 years and still flying from Manston. Mike Jenks
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    The Cold War

    Hi Yep its how amazing with all that Technology nobody new. It came at the same time as the huge asteroid that just missed us. In the next cycle of the Elliptical Orbit of our solar system we are heading into the bits and bobs zones of these guys. We will have to get the Anderson Shelters...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    hi Yep have the same problem in Dundee where Tim lives Mike Jenks
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    Hi Yep quite true the further you move out from the Centre the accent will change. Although the huge re-housing and new towns around Birmingham moved the accent all over the place. I shop quite a lot with the Redditch area and often smile when I hear the full blooded Brummie. Clearly his or her...
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    Curzon Street Railway Station

    Hi Yep Birmingham was the centre of Pen nibs and the Railways exported them. I saw a google reference to Pens nibs and Curzon St although not to the Drawing. Well done best yet on this puzzle Mike Jenks
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    New Birmingham library plans

    Hi Still looks like a huge cruise ship in Harbour to me with its huge Funnel on Top. Mike Jenks
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    Curzon Street Railway Station

    Hi There,s interesting normally this is easy for our string of Historians. very early in Railway History there may be a series of them representing early city Stations. Well done a good challenge. Mom96 a lot better from the bad time last few weeks. Still cant eat or drink but the Nose feeding...
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    Origins of the Brummie accent

    Hi It seems King Richard 111 spoke in Brummie. Clearly the answer lies in the Northern ees and owws etc from another contibuter. The original dialects many times due to the various tribes and battles. No the answers is ee bahh gun ows and ees owers ow from King Richard 111. Its a very...
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    Where is this? Schools #1

    Yep Sat my 11plus there its the Old Camp Hill Grammer Mike Jenks
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    Definition of “Brummie”, “Astonian” etc

    Hi Yep If you take Football as a Matrix and work it out. The Blues ground well its South of the Bull Ring ie Brummies. The Villa ground is in a Rival Borough Aston. Even when Aston came into what is Greater Birmingham the intense rivalry exists today. I know Football fans now come from all over...
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    Definition of “Brummie”, “Astonian” etc

    hi Yep my old mate always said a True Brummie was born South of the Bull Ring. So the Theory on Digbeth rings true. Its hard to compare Brummie with Cockney Mike Jenk
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    New Street Station From 1854 - 1966

    Hi Great Pictures from the Famous Michael Mensing of New Street Platform 7. I would hurtle down or up from Platform 2 (stechford) along the Bridge to 7 and down the Steps. In those days a Seperate Ticket Office for the old Midland Railway operated. It was situated on the edge of Queens Drive...
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