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    1st touch on a Computer

    PS; another great thread!
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    1st touch on a Computer

    Just reread this; of course it was a 1981 IBM PC, and you saw that :), happy Sunday!
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    Smithfield Garage

    Welcome to BHF Mike! A really good place with great folks, having said that I hope that someone can help you.
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    I’ll bring a couple of bottles of red! That is a great celebration!
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    Go for it! A great taste….
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    Birmingham Central Library. What do you think?

    Just thinking the same thing! A brilliant idea preserving so much local, national and global history!
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    Rivers : Forgotten Streams or Brooks of Birmingham

    Is there a history somewhere of those mills and what they worked or does someone know?
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    Birchfield Road Perry Barr

    Yes, that car looks like a Bentley Continental!
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    Rivers : River Rea

    Amazing what a few miles can do!
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    It’s pretty easy to crisp up Duck, the grease makes wonderful roasted potatoes!
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    Ditto we had/have the same and lots of stuffing for turkey and the pork!
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    Birmingham Central Library Ratcliff Place 1882 - 1974

    Magnificent!
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    Duck is one of my favorites, my wife makes with an orange or bing cherry sauce, nice and crispy!
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    Christmas Traditions – What Were Yours Growing Up?

    When I was 5 or 6 was the first time I remember seeing the turkey other than on the table . I do remember my father having to dress the turkey which was really messy( I thought). There were a few feathers left on he pulled off with a pair of pliers. Fast forward 9 or ten years, I worked at a...
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    Birchfield Road Perry Barr

    Great memories I’m sure!
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    Kardomah New Street and Colmore Row

    Exactly, a place to get from here to there and keep going especially as the sun goes down!
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    Kardomah New Street and Colmore Row

    Thank you! I was wondering if the street was actually still there, it looks really nice almost as I (think) I remember.
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    Kardomah New Street and Colmore Row

    Is the street picture a current view?
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    Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies aged 93

    Was Timothy recognized by the Queen?
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    Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies aged 93

    Good one!
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