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    Brighton Arms Balsall Heath

    Could be the Malt Shovel - different place. the building is still there but it's not been a pub for some time add to that it's near Moseley Road rather than half way down.
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    212-213 Broad Street in the 1980s

    the convention by that time was that there were TV programmes and computer programs. As far as I can remember the only computer programmes were things like Tommorow's World (on the BBC).
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    Free e books from the library service

    The standard ebook service is available at the moment through an app called either libby or overdrive (depending on version etc of your computer/tablet. You can get at the library's regular ebook stock that way and you do need a library card for setup. I haven't yet been able to find this thing...
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    Shops on Ladypool Road

    These are scans from Kelly's directory 1965. Not everyone is a shop.
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    The Spotted Dog - Bordesley Street and Meriden Street

    I always thought it odd that there were so many pubs around Digbeth that had the same or similar names. Mostly there was just the Bull's Head but there were two Spotted Dogs as well (that one and Alcester St).
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    You might like this http://bullsheadbob.blogspot.com/2019/04/bulls-head-bob-april-2019-dave-peace.html It does mention the band but mostly it's an obituary the guy who seems to be the centre of it.
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    Ad blockers

    DuckDuckGo still use advertising but, because of their non-intrusive policy it's going to be based on what everyone wants or, at least, everyone using their searches wants. So you get what people are asking for. If you look for stuff in a particular area, there's a chance that you'll get house...
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    Ad blockers

    There are around half a dozen real search engines and a lot more that compile results from searches made on them. DuckDuckGo used to be owned by Google so I'd suppose they're either just using Google or the same spiders to compile the list. You should get different results from the likes of Ask...
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    Birmingham Cinemas

    I might have seen that one in the same place (but not the same day). Was that the one that had an episode with an over-the-cliff ending in which the hero is seen to have escaped from the car in the next episode although he was visibly in there on the first?
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    Why does my PC keep telling me some sites are "not responding"

    I often get messages like "unable to resolve" etc. It's usually a local network thing. What happens is that the browser is expecting response from the internet faster that it's getting. Unable to resolve host comes when the computer that tells it where the computer it wants is hasn't responded...
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    Moseley Road Baths

    Although this is about an art exhibition at the top, if you scroll down you can find details of talks about and tours of the baths this month. https://moseleyroadbaths.org.uk/gala-pool-art
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    Films From The 50s And 60s?

    Surprising that, despite the obvious, they resurrected the character for the TV show.
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    Films From The 50s And 60s?

    Surprising that people watched reruns of Dixon of Dock Green but no-one seemed to notice the re-run of The Blue Lamp in the last few weeks. Back then PC Dixon could walk down the street, singing, talk to some dodgy character who looked like Dirk Bogarde in a doorway and get shot dead in the...
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    Birmingham 2019 Christmas Quiz

    15 from the clue and the width of the road, I'd guess Belgrave Road corner of either Moseley Road (looks wrong for that) or Longmore Street. 12. That seems to have been a pretty standard design. It's a lot like the one by the cannon hill pub but there's no railway bridge there. There used to be...
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    Lionel Strawbridge And Laurie Williams, The Nightingale Club, I'm Kat Strawbridge, Tracing Family.

    A couple of months back the folks from Birmingham LGBT started a history project about the Nightingale to coincide with its 50 year anniversary. If they had any success, you might find they know more than they did then. It might be worth getting in touch with them again if you haven't since 2018.
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    Tindall Street School memorial

    Considering the picture you've posted here has a date and name for the photographer, it might be worth asking the WMA to get in touch with whoever posted the picture and ask them where it was at the time. By 2015 the site of the old boys club would have changed usage a couple of times so it's...
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    A Lost Memorial at Ark Tindal Academy

    There seem to be different rules about what happens to old memorials depending on where they were and who put them there. I remember asking around at the time the Methodists plaque was found and it seems memorials in churches are reported to the ruling body of the church. Apparently the...
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    A Lost Memorial at Ark Tindal Academy

    This appeared on Facebook in a post from the Ark Tindal Primary Academy. "This beautiful plaque, commemorating the ultimate sacrifice made by the old boys of Tindal Street school in the Great War, has sadly not been sighted for some years. We would love to see it returned to the school for...
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    Birmingham Printing Companies circa 1900

    Where did you get the address for Saunders? In the 1912 directory 100 John Bright St is a publisher (National Labour Press Ltd) but Bright Buildings (shown on the letterhead) is at 110 John Bright Street and Harold Saunders is in office number 9. It's unlikely that you'll find a photo of the...
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    Bingley Hall

    Clocks that size would run off the mains. There's not enough space for clockwork in the back and batteries wouldn't have managed it. If they were supposed to be different time zones, they'd all have the minute hand in the same place.
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