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    Sad News

    Tuesday night is one of 2 nights me and wife have a drink at home tonight we toasted Jim/Postie RIP
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    Wild West show

    Not much help @1 Asbestos roof backdrop @2 Flag Stars and Bars Confederate 7 stars early version @3 a under scaled Napoleon 12 pr great photos fun day out
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    Happy birthday Key Hill Brian

    Many Happy Returns
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    Brum snow past and present

    Yes been there got the t shirt Winter 62//63
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    Birmingham fatal drownings 20th Century

    As i mentioned on canal thread while in a classroom at Great Barr Comp a girl was pulled out of class to be told her brother had sadly drowned at the locks by Walsall Rd locks
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    Birmingham fatal drownings 20th Century

    It was a kids thing as soon as i got on ice i west though i went under but John grabbed my arm if i had been on my own that would have been it
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    Birmingham fatal drownings 20th Century

    I went though the ice just down from Walsall Rd locks wearing a duffle coat pockets full of 303s from under River Tame bridge by the ICI my mate John Coffee pulled me out back to his house stood in front of a raging fire minus 303s of course Bone dry in no time
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    Prefabs

    Yes the airing cupboards had asbestos i worked on some for BCHD Am i right in recalling some roofs were asbestos
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    Prefabs

    No asbestos this time round i hope
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    Happy birthday Frothblower

    Happy Birthday
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    Lock keeper’s cottages

    A girl in my class was a lockeepers daughter only to be pulled out of class one day of to be told that her brother had sadly drowned in the canal i recall it might have a been the above cottage
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    Crooked house

    Can't bear to look
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    Aeroplane Crash - Oval Road, Gravelly Hill - 1916

    This thread is all good stuff
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    Crooked house

    It still makes my blood boil
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    Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

    I was in Brum i went as well i wish i never did spent a lot of time in there as a kid Free pop my Nan worked in the cafe Check out what they charge for a brew?? i walked away Best to remember how it was like a lot of things these days Never Go Back??????????? im back in my own museum now Can...
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    demo pics sheepcote st/king edwards wharf

    its sad to be replaced by ugly modern building s i was in Brum at the weekend well i think it was Brum these building s were a part of my view when i lived in Granville St in the 90s in Trident House
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    Summer Lane

    That's a great photo those ditches weren't successful in preventing travelers either
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    WARNING. Midlands historical Data

    Good to know
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    WARNING. Midlands historical Data

    Abit of topic i needed to contact 02 the other day i googled it o2 top of search page so i entered no into phone and Russian Cyrillic writing came up with number
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    THE SHIRLEY TEMPLE

    Does anyone recall Shirley Temple chinese restaurant on Stafford rd used to be always busy in the 70s it was the place to impress you're date
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