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  1. Morturn

    Help Required WW1 Regiment

    I think you have nailed it
  2. Morturn

    Slade Road Service Garage

    The Pegasus horse was the logo for Mobilgas or the Mobil Oil Corporation
  3. Morturn

    A canal that never was built

    That did cross my mine too. When you consider that Gas Street to Worcester and the Severn is I think about 52 locks lower, the technical challenges would have been significant.
  4. Morturn

    Scams: telephone, email, texts 2025

    That one has been doing the rounds for sometime now, but it catches people out, so think you for sharing it. You can always agree a secret word between family mebers that only they know to validate messages like this.
  5. Morturn

    Keith Berry's Photos (bhf Recovered)

    I understand thats what happend, the account got closed and images deleted
  6. Morturn

    Water Orton

    It is indeed. It been bashed down and rebuilt a few times by lorries hitting the narrow parapet, I think they built up the kerbs to stop lorries and put a weight limit on to too.
  7. Morturn

    Keith Berry's Photos (bhf Recovered)

    I suspect Phil was one of the Photobucket or Flicker users where you posted a link to embed the photo, so it shows the image seamlessly. Unfortunately, Photobucket change the game and started asking for a subscription and disabled the links unless people paid up.
  8. Morturn

    Pardoe’s Yard Ward End

    Thank you Richard, if I say so myself, the Pardoe’s were a fascinating family
  9. Morturn

    Keith Berry's Photos (bhf Recovered)

    Yes, that's definitely possible. I have the professional software needed to extract the images from the PDF files directly, which will preserve the best possible quality. Once extracted, we can work as a team to categorize them by area and timeframe before posting them here. As a first step...
  10. Morturn

    Keith Berry's Photos (bhf Recovered)

    It should be possible to extract the individual images form the PGF files and to post them on here. Do you know how each of the PDF file area arranged, i.e. grouped by place or road etc?
  11. Morturn

    Pardoe’s Yard Ward End

    Hi and Welcome to Birmingham History Forum. The yard your referring to was Pardoes Yard on St Marys Walk and St Margrets Road, Ward End. The yard belonged to my Great Grandfather Herbert and wife Martha and he would convert old buses for family to live in. Lots of Gypsy family’s lived in...
  12. Morturn

    tidy up please

    Here you go Lyn, is it your mom?
  13. Morturn

    Phyllis Nicklin Photos

    I was in Key Hill Cemetery yesterday and noticed Phyllis Nicklins grandfathers grave marker on on of the Guinea Graves. Viv has identified some of here ancestors, so am wondering about posting the photo I took?
  14. Morturn

    Key Hill Cemetery

    I popped out to Key Hill Cemetery today and did a 3D render of one of the many Guinea Grave markers. https://skfb.ly/pBs7t Around 80-100 people would have been buried up these markers.
  15. Morturn

    Birmingham Walking Tours

    Hi Andy, I know this guy and hes very good: https://bluebadge.co.uk/places_visited.html
  16. Morturn

    Alldays & Onions

    Richard It looks like by the style of the hosues that replaced it, it must have gone in the 1930's
  17. Morturn

    WW1 recruitment parade in Corporation St

    Welcome to Birmingham History Forum. Thank you for post on the forum. We strongly advise members not to post their personal email addresses, phone numbers or any other personal information on the thread. Your email address and data could be harvested and used for scams, fraud, and identity...
  18. Morturn

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Verbina is another one I grow for the bees, it just seesmt o go on floowering the whole summer
  19. Morturn

    Our childhood toys

    The “John Bull” printing set was a classic children’s toy.
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