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  1. A Sparks

    Emigration from Birmingham

    One of my mother's cousins and his wife emigrated to the Ottowa area of Canada in the 50s I think it was, he did very well, had his own business and a private plane. Some of my father's family emigrated to New Zealand in the first half of the 1900s. One of Dad's Uncles later came back to...
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    Happy birthday jukebox

    Happy Birthday!
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    Birmingham buses

    Oh dear, glad no one was badly injured. Where was Queens Hospital? I don't think I've heard the name before.
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    Happy birthday Ray Griffiths

    Happy Birthday!
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    Cotteridge

    A nice story on BBC Birmingham today :) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpw60pyzeo
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    Birmingham Automobile Association

    I have an amusing story about the AA from years ago. As a family we were on the way to my Nan's in South Worcestershire via a stretch of the motorway. There was something sounding funny with the motor of Dad's Mini so he pulled off at one of the junctions to have a look inside the bonnet, just...
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Great old street clock! I wonder if anyone can identify what the building originally behind was?
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    Ozzy Osbourne (John)

    Just noticed while looking for a road in the Witton area on Google maps that Ozzy Osborne's childhood home is now actually marked as such! I guess the people now living there are not going to be very thrilled if lots of visitors gather in the street during the concert period!!
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    Presbytery Aston (Hall ?)

    I guess this is the church here....
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    Birmingham Light Festival 2025

    Some pictures from the Light Festival on the BBC website today. .. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr5017znko
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    Articles: The Iron Room, Birmingham Libraries. Recent Articles

    My cousin worked for James A Roberts at that time. I used the Lloyd's Bank in the lower part of the building so have been inside a number of times.
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    happy birthday anthea

    Happy Birthday!
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    A bit of Birmingham's history now in the USA

    Wow...a very nice piece of furniture! I'm sure one of our members will be able to help with some information.
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    Bulls Head pub Coventry Road Yardley

    Gosh yes, I remember some of those bands! Galliard, and Erskine T who was a DJ and also worked at the Elbow Room and Mothers. The Locomotive and the band Ten Years After who became quite well known and played at the Woodstock Festival! ...and of course Carl Wayne and the Vikings, some of whose...
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    Bulls Head pub Coventry Road Yardley

    Gosh....some memories of the Bull! The staircase going up to the room where the bands played in the mid 60s! Known then as the Hereford Lounge.
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Me too! That was my bus route into Town, the number 16, must have passed the Pelican hundreds of times!
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    Today is Lumpammer's Birthday

    Happy Birthday!
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    That building was originally J Ashford & Son and is still there... https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4397225
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    I think the large S brackets were to strengthen the walls of buildings?
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    Ozzy Osbourne (John)

    I suppose it's not so bad if you all chip in together! Edit....just realised that price IS per person:oops:.....or is it, I've confused myself completely now :worried::rolleyes:
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