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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    Not officially but when we get near the bottom of the page there are sometimes about 20 links to be downloaded.
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    As it takes time for the 'embedded media' to load could I ask please that you give the title and name of the artiste/band in the text.
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    Songs of Praise today was the UK's favourite Christmas Carols according to an online public vote. The no. 1 was Oh Holy Night so what did the BBC do? They played Andrea Bocelli singing 'Cantique de Noël'. It was the English version that the people voted for not the French version. Not...
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    Snow Hill Station

    You will be able to see the Blue Pullman on Platform 5 at Nuneaton tomorrow (12th December) arr 14.57 dep 14.59. It is running from St Pancras to Crewe and returning via a different route. EDIT Since writing the above i have come across filmed two days ago. I have not yet watched it.
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    Childhood Memories Of Trains

    Never went to Tamworth but many of my school friends did. I never recorded numbers but spent hours on both New Street and Snow Hill just watching. Was the odd one out as I bought the Railway Magazine whereas everyone else bought Trains Illustrated back in the late 1950s
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    Rackhams Store

    I remember having a juice drink in the Juice Bar. If I remember correctly it was not in the main part of the store proper but in the entrance halfway up North Western Arcade so unless you went there intentionally or just happened to be passing you would not know about it.
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    Birmingham buses

    I may have mentioned this before. Back in 1970, I co-authored a report recommending the closing of New Street to traffic and making it a pedestrianised street. I went to the Birmingham Post & Mail and looked through their picture library and chose some photos to illustrate the report including...
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    Telephone history: Telephone Service in Birmingham

    The dialling code from Birmingham was KN0 (or KNO) for Knowle and KN4 for Lapworth so from Knowle to Lapworth, I would have expected to be just 4.
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    This song became in 1967 an anti Vietnam War song aimed at US President Lyndon Johnson and his escalation of the war.
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    Elmdon Airport Birmingham International Airport

    Mike, I think you would be very unlikely to find any records going back to 1941 as the importance of archives was not recognised until more recent times. I remember once being asked by a security organisation about an employee of the company I was working for about someone who had shown on his...
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    This version of Body and Soul by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse, which I think I prefer, was released after her death. At that time it also made Tony Bennett to oldest person to appear in the American charts.
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    Birmingham buses

    Also the city council realised that if they used it as a bus station they would lose it to the WMPTE without compensation so they kept it as part of Paradise Circus.
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    Good music to listen to on U Tube

    YMCA has been getting quite a lot of airing over the last few weeks in the US. Trump was trying to dance to it during his election rallies and then when he lost, the Biden supporters were singing and dancing to it in celebration.
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    Snow Hill Station

    You won't be too disappointed then if I point out that the news report was dated 1st August and things have happened since then so the trip has been cancelled
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    Snow Hill Station

    The first tour that I can see for this train that will be calling at Birmingham stations will be Saturday 23rd January 2021. This will start at Birmingham International, next stop Tame Bridge Parkway which means that it will take the Stetchford-Aston Line avoiding Birmingham city centre stations.
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    Birmingham buses

    We have seen that photo before and I think the consensus view was late 1930s.
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    George Dixons Grammar School

    The side door that you mention was the bike sheds. In my day they were absolutely full of bikes, the whole length of that path way and even bikes propped up against the wall. As first and second formers that was our entrance entrance to the school to our form rooms in the 'New Wing' built...
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    George Dixons Grammar School

    The old pavilion that you mention would have been the King Edwards Five Ways pavilion before they moved to Bartley Green. When we played them at rugby we never used their pavilion but used our own and walked across to their pitch when we were playing away and they did the same when we were at home.
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    George Dixons Grammar School

    I think the whole site was due to be rebuilt under the Building Schools for the Future programme but they ran out of money. I think it was the infants school which was built on the Girls playing field. The Portland Road entrance was, I think, the entrance for the King Edwards playing field...
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    George Dixons Grammar School

    Did not spot the chimney. It was behind the tower. Could be that the tower was a water tower. On a much larger scale this was the water tower for the former Holymoor Mental Hospital
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