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Did anyone see the moon occulting Saturn early this morning - this is VERY difficult to photograph on account of Saturn being so much dimmer than the moon, but I managed to get a few:- Pre-occultation - Saturn is at about 11 o-clock:- After the occultation - Saturn is at 4 o-clock:- You...

Joe 90, Secret Service and "Revamp Guest Puppets" that appeared in all of the later series:- Professor McLaine Joe 90 Father Stanley Unwin from Secret Service Matthew from Secret Service Revamp Puppet #21 = "Fraser" Revamp Puppet #41 - "Andre Verdain" - the revamp puppets were used in...

Nice set of Captain Scarlet puppets:- Captain Scarlet - normal head Captain Scarlet - "Smiler" head Captain Ochre Colonel White Captain Grey Captain Magenta Captain Blue Doctor Fawn Lieutenant Green And the "baddie" - Captain Black"

There is currently an exhibition of original and replica Gerry Anderson series puppets and models at The "Hub" at St Marys, Market St Lichfield. Free entry!!!!! Had a (very!) quick look on Friday - here are a few of the exhibits - all from Thunderbirds except Troy Tempest from Stingray:- Parker...

And some more:- A damaged roof peeking through partially boarded up windows:- A tree grows out of a upper floor window frame:- And out of another chimney stack:- The edge of the roof is in a precarious state:- Some detail on some of the windows:- And finally - in the yard a...

I went to the old Birmingham Brewery building yesterday and got some close up shots of this wonderful old building - now in a very dangerous state:- Looks like the window frame is holding this part up:- The gable on the roof has seen better days too:- The chimney stack needs a bit of...

Managed to photograph a "1 day old" crescent moon very low in the twilight the other night:-

No - I think this was Upper Priory St?

This is the old Box Carton works - just with cladding around the upper floor. One of our next door neighbors used to work there - at Christmas she would send us a gift taped with their reinforced tape which you needed a knife or scissors to open!

Tell me about it Lyn - guess who forgot to collapse the gazebo last night........ Its collapsed now though........:sob:

sorry - another duplicate message

HI Lyn - the open day on September Heritage day has been free in previous years - this is the first year (to my knowledge) that there has been a charge. Guess the council needs to get some cash from somewhere...........

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Good news - open day at collections centre is on this year:- Bad News - its not free anymore......:-

Seeing as it is General Election day, here are a few memories of elections (General and local) past:- And - just in case you thought some of the election messages this time went a bit "over the top" - here is a very famous one from before WW1:-

If there are any you specifically want I can email them over to you as hi-res scans

Here are a few more:- Nechells Green Ash Rd Saltley Bham Police Gymnastics Club No details on this one - can anyone help? Dale End Tram Shelters 1930 Coventry Rd Handsworth Park Eliot Rd Infant School perform "The Three Bears" Cannon Hill Park 1907 Hawthorn Rd Junior...

This is indeed a belter of a resource, although the above URL is out of date - just entering Birmingham in the search brings back well over 4000 and, whilst there are many duplicates if you go through them all there are some absolute gems, a lot of these are actual photos so very high quality -...

Hi Joseline; same with any of mine although they are from a slightly later period (late 70's to mid 80's).

Brilliant photos!!!