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  1. RobT

    Its Oldbrit's birthday !

    Best wishes for a happy & healthy 90th
  2. RobT

    Where is this ?

    From the 1930's Kelly's
  3. RobT

    IN OUR GARDEN 2023

    Some of my wife's hard work This is one of the many roses on the bush bottom right
  4. RobT

    88 Queens Road, Aston 1883

    I can't see a Queens Road around 1849, was Aston in Birmingham then?
  5. RobT

    A. Rodway 102 Long Street, Sparkbrook

    Thank you for finding this Janet, I am a big Meccano enthusiast, so November 1924 Meccano Magazine
  6. RobT

    A. Rodway 102 Long Street, Sparkbrook

    Anybody know the date when this advert could have been placed? And when were they in business?
  7. RobT

    Birmingham buses

    I've just come across a stamp amongst clutter, which has sat there for about 23 years! Apparently a 1st class stamp issued in 2000 at a cost of 27p. Birmingham City Transport bus is a Daimler COG5 from 1937 Read all about the stamps here
  8. RobT

    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    As far as I can see Farm street and Wheeler street are at right angles
  9. RobT

    Red Lion Inn Soho Road Handsworth

    Here's a couple of photographs of the interior of the red lion after it had been empty for many years
  10. RobT

    Red Lion Inn Soho Road Handsworth

    This is how building looked in May 2022
  11. RobT

    Red Lion Inn Soho Road Handsworth

    This is how the building looked in Sept 2020, note the note in the window about newly refurbished, note also new building constructed to left of photograph.
  12. RobT

    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    I can tell you that the car outside the M&B is a Morris Eight Series E c.1939
  13. RobT

    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    This is actually 187A Aston Road, Aston where Allesley St/Bracebridge st meet on Aston Road junction Mrs M. Darby Newsagent
  14. RobT

    Photo restoration

    Here's my effort but others much more talented
  15. RobT

    Trams

    Thanks Mike, I sat waiting 2-4 months for a complex stent to be made in Australia, I was contacted by Consultant around about 18th April, given 5 days notice of operation done privately on NHS. In Priory Hospital 8am Monday morning April 24th, finished by midday. Discharged Tues April 25th 7pm...
  16. RobT

    Trams

    I am prepared to scan any photos, prints and upload them to this forum I have previous experience of scanning many thousands of photographs. After this I can offer them to someone else on the forum if they would appreciate owing them, or forward them to wherever/whoever suggested on forum. I am...
  17. RobT

    Photo restoration

    I think it's an improvement, but there are others more talented
  18. RobT

    2 Back 22, Villiers Street, Ladywood

    Probably in Winson Green Anyone know how its numbered?
  19. RobT

    Umbrella makers - Factory Locations?

    This is from 1930 Kellys but may help
  20. RobT

    Ghost signs of Birmingham

    Enlarged photo
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