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Next lot:- Impact Testing Machine Old Gas and Electric Cookers Capstan Lathe Charles Taylor Bartholomew St 1939 Static Generator and Scientific Balance Assorted Statues and Sculptures, featuring a variety of ugly blokes.... Aerial Motorcycle Engine Parts with an early gas fire in...

Thank you Mike for moving the other photos from the Thinktank thread!!!

My favorite line was Tony to Sid James on a joint date night when Sid wants Tony to "keep his girl amused" otherwise both girls will go home. Tony's reply was "Keep her amused - what do you suggest - a few card tricks, waggle me ears....." Closely followed by when Tony is awaiting a girl on a...

Next lot:- Late Victorian Electrical Generator Paper Clip Making Machine "Hand Powered" Grindstone 1849 Water Turbine 1959 Blackstone Engine 1919 Vertical Engraving Machine Harborne 1914 Blueprint Machine Model of Cadburys Chocolate Making Machine Model of GEC Blooming and...

Welcome to the new thread!! Potato Sorter Swinden Clock from City Engineers Dept in Cambridge St Wood Embossing Machine Lawrence Cabinets of Fazeley St Bicycle or Tandem Sidecar - used in Walsall Coin Blank Power Press from Taylor & Challen Hockley (the factory behind the sidings in...

And more:- Aerial Convertable, Selly Oak 1923 Castle Runabout Prototype Kidderminster 1919 Bean 14 H.P. Coupe Tipton 1927 BSA Open Tourer Sparkbrook 1912 Old Times Stagecoach Now back into the main hall:- Hot Air Engine and Pump - note this one still has the triangular revolving info...

Here are some more from the vehicle hall:- Steam Road Roller Austin Atlantic Coupe Pantographic Metal Rule Engraver Kemps Dental Products Birmingham Singer 10 H.P. Coupe Not sure on this one Lovely pattenated window on an old Ford car Clement Panhard aka Sterling Dog Cart 1904...

And some more:- Direct from Aston Cross RAMC Badge Microscopes Old Style Cadbury Chocolate Bars Now into the Vehicle Hall:- Mystery motorbikes on the shelf Er - yes............ Diesel Engine Turbo Prop Engine

More from the small objects cages:- Morse code "tappers" Tribal Masks Coronet Stereoscopic Camera - direct from Summer Lane! Tram tickets and BCT ticket rack Glove Puppets

More tin plate toys:- Model Tangye Engine Clockfaces Back to the stuffed animals:- Thats all for now - will post more tonight!

Staying in the cages - most of these had no labels:-

The next set are all in locked cages fronted with metal grills - hence the odd shadows here and there:- Tin plate toys Steel Helmet - possibly with Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals) crest on it? Ancient Egyptian Relics

Here are some more:- Childs pram and sectioned Austin car engine Decorators hand cart and knitting machine Typographic Compositing Machine (used for newspapers, books, etc) Turning Lathe - wonder how many of these were in factories in Birmingham? Miscellaneous Items Section

Here we go..........apologies if some images look a little dark but the lighting is not the best and you cannot use flash:- Gloucester Bow or Ship Wagon from Lichfield Anderson Shelter Assorted Sculptures and Carvings Music Box and Ornate Chair Gas Lantern from a station used by the...

Went to this years Collection Centre open day yesterday - attendance sadly much lower than in previous years, almost certainly due to the £11 admission charge now imposed by our bankrupt council. Thanks to the wonderful staff there who went out of their way to help and advise. I've tried to...

This is where the council SHOULD be stepping in and telling the developers they will not get planning permission for a new apartment block (which the markets area does not need) and that the markets building HAS to stay. Question is of course - when was this piece of land sold in the first...

Happy Birthday!!!

Bet there is a "sell off of land" in here somewhere to go into the councils "pay off our debts" fund.........

Super pictures!! Thanks for posting them!

The site of the colliery can be seen in this old photo taken from the Hawthorns Halt I think - it is in the middle of the line split (left to Stourbridge, right to Wolverhampton):- On these photos I took in the late 1970s the colliery would have been on the right:- These days the site is...