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    Articles: The Iron Room, Birmingham Libraries. Recent Articles

    Thanks! That's personally interesting as I knew the artist Paul Bartlett when he worked at the MAC in the early 90s.
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    Heavyweight boxing legend George Foreman dies aged 76

    Sad to read :( George Foreman delivers a blow to Joe Frazier on the way to winning his first heavyweight title in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973. Photograph: AP RIP
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    Old street pics..

    It looked vaguely familiar from an old photo I've seen before - is it the Law Court's end of Corporation Street somewhere?
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    Proposed new building Gas Street

    What about this proposal for Gas Street Basin?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgm1dew2mlro
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    British Restaurants

    As our late member oldMowhawk posted back in 2018, I too remember the British Restaurant in Perry Barr, next to the Library (now gone) but I never went in there.
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    It's chocks2's birthday

    Happy Birthday!
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    Birmingham boxers

    I do, my parents were great boxing fans! Did he live in Birmingham?
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    Station Street Birmingham

    The Council are now exploring the possibility of making Station Street a Conservation Area https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg81e4g8dyo
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    Electric Cinema Tatler Cinema Station Street

    The Council are now exploring the possibility of making Station Street a Conservation Area https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg81e4g8dyo
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    Jasper Carrott

    Jasper is 80 today :D https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ljg21dvn7o Happy Birthday!
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    Old English/Latin/Dog Latin

    I agree, it looks like a complaint of some sort!
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    Old English/Latin/Dog Latin

    Thomas Sudeley? He was Baron Seymour of Sudeley.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Seymour,_1st_Baron_Seymour_of_Sudeley#:~:text=Thomas%20Seymour%2C%201st%20Baron%20Seymour%20of%20Sudeley%2C%20KG%2C%20PC,1547%E2%80%931553).
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    Swanage Road,

    I do understand the practical reason why people extend the front of houses to make a porch and enlarge the front room but, to me, it really spoils the original design of the house!
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    HOLBROOKS

    Very interesting. Here's a bit more I found about the company... https://baybottles.com/2020/05/22/holbrook-co-holbrooks-worcestershire-sauce/
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    happy birthday to vivienne14

    Happy Birthday! Hope you have a lovely day :) :party:
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    Station Street Birmingham

    This has just come up on my Internet, would the company have been on this Station Street in Town?
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    Trams

    Great set of photos!
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    Scott Arms, Great Barr

    Here's the Beacon Cinema from the thread on Birmingham Cinemas.. Does that look like someone sitting on the roof to anyone else?! One of my schoolfriends went to work at the Lloyd's Bank in the row of shops when she left school. I think there was a supermarket there in the late 60s, can't...
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    Rose Taylor, 709 Walsall Road, Birmingham, 1949

    Dr Calderwood was my mother's family's doctor when they moved to Perry Barr. His practice was in a house on the Walsall Road just up from Church Road, he was in partnership with Dr McConnell the younger doctor who delivered me! Later on, in the 60s I think, they moved to the health centre next...
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    Lewis's Department Store

    With a lone gentleman!
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