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Something went wrong, I gave a bigger reply to the effect that name swops were not unusual and in the last days of steam, I saw double headed Halls coming out of Plymouth up Hemerdon , particularly in the winter of 63. Bob

Ugly but big and ugly and powerful, there are some interesting films on you tube of 844s recent trip in the USofA. Bob Thank you all for your comments especially the shed details, it was just one of those surreal thoughts, what a cop it wood have ben, the only two double barrelled Halls...

On a visit to home a few years ago, just after Grand Central opened we went the full route, a sparsely used service, came back by train.....standing of course. Bob

A true neutral with federal and confederate scarf shawls. They knew no Mason-Dixon line. Bob

I love them supplying charities at wholesale prices, but what a strange mix, rich French silks and brocades and the worlds cheapest blankets and flannels. Bob

Here ìs a trivia question and I hope one of you GWŔ rail buffs know the answer. Has anyone of you in steam days, seen or heard of Burton Agnes Hall and Rood Ashton Hall double heading together? Bob

WOW!! Thanks David I like the idea of the Zephania line Bob

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Interesting. Is it on time? Where can I see that map of Andy Streets plan for the West Midlands? Bob

It was a gentler age, there was respect for children, for the elderly. The anger that seems to lurk within so many these days did not show itself, even the drunks were happy drunks, do you remember you could always rely on getting on a bus and having a singing drunk upstairs, usually having...

Super pictures, they reiterate the comments I made on the Rookery Park forum. Bob

The wonderful thing about collecting postcards is the number of times some places can be caught by the camera from the early 20th century (Two do you know the èarliest date) to today, black and white, sepia, lithograph, hand coloured, real photographic and the last seventy years coloured photos...

This time it is my first grandchild, she has just graduated from the Birmingham City University with a BA first class honours degree in advertising and public relations. How strange life is, born almost the last child of the 20th Century three minutes to twelve 31st December 1999, .in...

Thanks OM what a fantastic photo montage, brought back a few memorie, Odeon for the films one or two weeks after they had been in the City Centre Cinemas, Birchfield (like the Star, (Slade Road), the Picture House (Erdington) and countless other non-posh cinemas, scattered throughout the city...

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Where was Perry Common school?

I also thought OUCH!!,! But thank you Bob

Thanks, he set his mind on it and he has decided this is his future. Locally to date he had done Goodnight Uncle Tom, Joseph, Into the Woods, Me and my gal and 42nd Street and some I have forgotten. Bob

Interesting and this is where I gets sexstist and non woke, how many females there are in that picture. I do remember the days of Graham Warren, Tiger Hart et al, did they have fan clubs. Do you also remember 'ommer em Crodley at Cradley Heath or was this another spoort? Bob

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