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Thimblemill Baths for sale. (Smethwick Baths in later years) A stylish grade 2 building. Happy days swimming there as a child. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnd021xkknro

As many of us know, the Library of Birmingham has important photography collections. There's an article in the Dispatch which might give publicity to the need to catalogue and digitise the collection to make it more widely...

Happy Birthday, Alberta!

A belated Happy Birthday, Richard. Hope you had a good day! Derek

The Gas Hall exhibition runs until the end of October except Mon & Tues. I look forward to seeing it. I have childhood memories going there with Mom. Then with students and my own children. So many paintings are very familiar. For people able to travel, Liverpool and Manchester have good Pre-...

Long term plans for the Jewellery envisage more green space and preserving the historic buildings and cemeteries. Also making 'active travel' routes like Copenhagen! Cyclists and pedestrians don't mix well in my view. 2045 seems long way off, and given the present BCC finances, nothing may come...

Plans for the nearby Smithfield development come into question after the Developer pulls out off UK construction. I couldn't find a thread for the Smithfield Development (probably because nothing new has been built yet?) But do move this post if there's a better place for it...

131 closed cinemas in Birmingham. Some with photos and information. https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-kingdom/england/birmingham?page=2&status=closed Under the map, there are currently 12 open and 58 demolished- click on the tabs for details.

Warley Woods Community Trust posted this on Twitter (now X). Said it was taken when the park was opened to the public. 1906

Viv Cole has a splendid 'Walk round the Abbey' with excellent photos, floor plans and some interior views too. Warley Woods Community Trust shows that excellent work is being done in this public park. https://www.warleywoods.org.uk/blog/a-walk-around-the-abbey

That's sad. The Gaumont at 118 Windmill Lane, I think? https://www.cinematreasures.org/theaters/20722

Sorry, my geography of Waterloo Rd is hazy as it has been about 56 years since I went there regularly. I can recall the smell of the perm solution though! I don't remember the shop, I'm afraid. Some of the older ladies in Worcestershire still wear fur coats, though their grand daughters roll...

No, we have a Digital Audio Broadcasting system (DAB) in our cars and in some parts DAB+ as found in Continental Europe is available. Many radios have FM and AM as well. The problem with DAB is that it often gives inferior reception, despite the radios costing much more. (DAB+ is said to be...

Richard, AM certainly, usually called medium wave here. Satellite radio if you have a dish, usually for TV services. There has been a growth of internet radio streams which we can listen to via a computer, internet radio or with a module in a hi fi system. Derek

Richard, they are well maintained and there are two pairs of masts so one pair can carry the aerial while the other is repaired. We will see what happens to the site. FM in the UK is still high quality and many use digital radio (though reception isn't always brilliant). Domestically we can use...

BBC Radio 4 currently broadcasts on Longwave 198 kHz (just over 1500 metres in old money). But live cricket (Test Match Special) and the Shipping Forecast are now available elsewhere. The Droitwich transmission masts at Wychbold will probably be dismantled as analogue broadcasting ceases this...

And Eric Coates' Knightsbridge March signature tune of 'In Town Tonight'

A 'Tommy Knocker' is a hob or goblin, often thought to haunt mines. As a child, I knew the woods [like Leasowes Park- Blue Bell Dell] well in the 1960s -1970s, but I think this wood was long gone by then. Looking at the newspaper photo, I doubt this was done by children. More like housing...

An 11 cm Ogham inscribed stone found in a garden and now exhibited at the Herbert Art Gallery. Ogham was an early alphabet mainly used to inscribe names on stones, before early Irish adopted Latin...