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  1. Barr_Beacon

    Ford Meteor Garage Gloster Meteor Jet On Forecourt

    Found this recently, it's dated August 1973, does anyone remember it?
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    Science Museum Newhall Street

    I still like the old Museum of Science and Industry better!
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    Witton Square

    Lyn, I always got a tremendous feeling of satisfaction making that leap and grabbing the bar of the bus as it was pulling away but I still remember how cold they were downstairs in those 'proper' winters of the 1960s!
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    Witton Square

    Witton Square mid 1970s. The bus is approaching Witton Road, towards Brookvale Road, The Aston Hotel pub can be seen to the left behind the bus.
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    The Birmingham Pals in the Great War

    Yes Lyn, that's the very thought I had, it's definitely the town hall.
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    The Birmingham Pals in the Great War

    Can anyone provide any details about this photograph?
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    Brum and Black Country- Venues Of The Past

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    The Australian Bar

    The Australian Bar 1970s / 1980s Lost photo replaced
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    Dog And Duck, High Street Aston

    I found these recently. The photographs of the last two sadly are not dated, I'm sure it's the Dog and Duck in High Street, Aston (near to The House that Jack Built) as the architecture appears to be the same. Late 1960s / early 1970s Date unknown note the tiled frontage and the single...
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    Pollyanna's, Newhall Street

    Top Cats; well I found my answer. It was a club at the same address of Pollyanna's but ran in the 1990s
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    Pollyanna's, Newhall Street

    I used to go to Pollyanna's regularly from 1975, I think it was called Revolution before that (from what I can recall from the ads in The Birmingham Evening Mail at that time). I Stumbled across this advertisement the other day, it shares the same address as Pollyanna's. Was it a nightclub that...
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    Pubs Of The Past

    I was trying to put this video on of an ATV Today News report from 3.12.1975 on the opening of Teddy's, formerly The Tavern in The Town. Here is the web page... https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-03121975-birmingham-pub-tavern-town-re-opens
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    Pubs Of The Past

    https://126skyfiregce-vimeo.akamaized.net/exp=1520163398~acl=%2F239444525%2F%2A~hmac=cdc5f51a516149a300caafa003d2d79abc85762c34c48aff7b3228648cd6f364/239444525/sep/video/856286111,856286110,856286089,856286080/master.json?base64_init=1
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    Henrietta Street Ambulance Station

    Sorry, can't provide a date.
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    Bracebridge Street

    I think we had this photograph of George Formby visiting the Norton motorcycle works on Bracebridge Street previously but it was one of the photographs that was hacked. Apologies if it is elsewhere on the site. Below is a photograph of Norton motorcycle workers doing a photo shoot, I'm not...
  16. Barr_Beacon

    Lewis's Department Store

    The construction of Lewis's in Birmingham, photograph taken on 25th April, 1932.
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    Cato Street

    I was ten when we moved from Allesley Street in Aston. Close to Miller St bus depot was a park (in Stephenson St I think) and in that park was a small REAL steam engine for the children to play on. It was MY steam engine! For many years it existed only as a memory until one day while browsing...
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    Cato Street

    I enjoy a good mooch when I get the chance, Lyn!
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    Cato Street

    The Monkey House, Cato St
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    Crown And Cushion Pubs Perry Barr

    You're absolutely right Lyn. I've never set foot in what they've replaced it with. M & B have got a problem now, the 'pub' they created was to attract the student population from the nearby UCE. Now that's going to be demolished, their customer base will all but disappear.
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