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    Abbey Street Hockley

    Hi Lynn Yes i can recall when you first put that photograph up all those years ago and i also added an in put then meaning i comment about the other view of that top end of the street where the first car is on the bend you can see a very slight...
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    Lodge Road Hockley (and The Flat)

    Blimmey peg is that Hmv cake shop still there operating its been there for donkeys years even before my time many years than i count , even when i was six and our dad was working at charles Harris the bakelight moulders way back in the fifty early sixty...
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    National Time Recorder Co.

    Hi Alan On your thread regarding these old time clocks, there was only one company i ever worked for with the third photo on showing on there web page And that was at Radex electricals whom made alot of things electric even plugs and fires...
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    Air raid shelters

    HI Maurice , I dont mind you rambling on my friendyou make sense on all your threads and story,s and i enjoy them and i learn things from you , as i am sure there are other members as well learn from your threads...
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    Air raid shelters

    Hi Frothy I never knew that myself either i would inmagine thats a weeks wages to a man in those days I wonder how much the scrap man got for them Astonian,, Alan,,
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    Air raid shelters

    Hi Maurice Here is a photograph taken on the subjects of Air Raid shelters which i was quoteing on the thread afew days back, when in my opiniun what great comfort of not knowing what my happen you may recall me saying how i thought about the...
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    Air raid shelters

    When i think back to those shelters of galvanised metal sheets, being used for shelter from bombs being dropped on you, i think how on earth can they protect you from death because if the houses around you took a direct hit all that weight of tonnage of...
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    Walford Road Sparkbrook

    Hi Viv that was a very well taken photo and very tranquel looking road with all those trees, lineing the road It was a crying shame when you look back at photos of old brum in the early years with most of our roads tree lined roads Especialy around the...
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    Rag And Bone Man Ragman Tatters

    Frothy I dearly love that cracking photograph you put up, and i think it is a reall clasic , Well;; it say alot about our old longbridge then, don,t you think so ;? I say that with thought of our yester years when they had the fight on there hands...
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    Peaky Blinders - A world away from Downton!

    well Lady The only thing i did not like about the peaky blinders is the story lines are not what they should be from day one yes it started on the right footing with the story line begining about the irish connections which was about the area...
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    Rag And Bone Man Ragman Tatters

    Come on viv you have to have a sense of humuor to watch them it was a great gas indeed So did millions of us , i know you said it gives you the creeps watching the replays but in my case i cannot like watching programes from the...
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    Post War Pubs

    hi viv , the pub building looks good from the outside but inside it needs abit of a make over very dark and very sparce inside beleive me it still very busy thou with the gangers meaning the Irish road gangers and builders IT as a very cold...
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    Famous catch phrases.

    Have a go Joe, mabel is at the table sunday lunc times on the radio by wilf pickles Lary Grayson shut that door ,weekly television shows Larry grew up in a miners village in Nuneaton many years ago called burmuda village Wakey wakey billy cotton radio show sunday mornings
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    Heaton Street Hockley

    the boys brigade company close to springhill was at the methodice chuch just up past sprinhill and it would have been them the boys photograph are in books that i have also there photographs are on the old ladywood site and they was put on there by my old friend albert mosedale whom we went...
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    Park Road Hockley

    hi wonder whether or not the hortons which incidently lived local to our school ickneild street boys whom was in our class there and i was in the same class was a george and a raymond horton two different family i would say they was not brothers i know that because the gorge was slow the...
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    Up The Terrace, Down Aston And Lozells By Ronald K Moore

    Well guys and gals If you want a good book to read at bed time may i suggest a book called UP THE TERRACE, DOWN ASTON AND LOZELLS By Ronald K Moore A Fascinating Account of life in the back streets of birmingham, before,during and after the first world war It also as picture of alot of the...
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    Park Road, Aston

    Eric did,nt your wife work for mr taylor the toy shop at the bottom of victoria road and by lichfied road aston
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    Gorman. J.

    are these gormans related to the gormans family of winson green , whom aso ran the wheatsheaf public house on the corner of Ickneid port road and dudley road next to the police station
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    Steam Locos

    Hi Adap2it Here is another one for you at tyseley sheds
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    Moor Street Station

    Hi Norfolk brummie Can you recall the very big building just along to the main corner of moor street and that goods yard which in fact would have faced the old bull ring and st martins there again it would have beenjust before...
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