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    Summer Music

    Think you remember Rick Astley, think again.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlW4CFtl5Io
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    Pubs and Inns of Bull Ring and Market areas from 1940s

    What fabulous architecture, any one any idea what the building with the pillars was next to the hop pole?.
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    Attention trainspotters!

    Nice account, couple of Saltley shed pics here.. https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/mrsalt1237.htm https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/mrsalt81.htm
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    Digbeth Music Hall London Museum Music Hall

    There's not much info out there but found this and what i posted earlier... https://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/854-coutts https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/30349 and there was this thread on Coutts...
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    Digbeth Music Hall London Museum Music Hall

    Very interesting Josie, sounds a bit of a rough old place according to it's history.
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    Bull Ring 2003

    Ditto to all of that but sadly we're well used to such acts of vandalism in this City, you might like to see this corner of the Birmingham it's history it's people exhibition in the museum as they did manage to save a flag from the old Bull Ring of that same design...
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    Bull Ring 2003

    Water used to cascade down them into pools but they were removed as they built more restaurants and called it spiceal St.
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    The Place where all the Pretty Pictures are Kept

    Here Here!!!!!!
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    Digbeth Music Hall London Museum Music Hall

    It's amazing how the old music hall building on Park Street is still standing on the final picture on #608, how's it managed that?. Isn't the Boerma building going to be built there, they don't seem to have really started that for some reason. Just found it's history...
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    The Place where all the Pretty Pictures are Kept

    Just discovered the Museums Flickr account, it's very good i think:emmersed:.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/birminghammag/page1/
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    Castle Vale

    History of The Vale here.. https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-c/castle-vale/
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    Castle Vale

    Used to work on Kingsbury Rd in the eighties and used to pop into the Lancaster and another pub nearby that was definitely a bit dodgy. The old shopping centre had some interesting shops but never seemed fully occupied, there was a dentist in there whose sole aim in life seemed to be to fill...
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    Old street pics..

    That's strange:abnormal: i recently viewed this building on the Britain From Above site and it was at one time the Anglo French Carriage Company of London Paris and wait for it....Birmingham:loyal:, haflway down this page... https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw005841
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    Summer Music

    Something soothing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofJHLynad4
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    New Birmingham library plans

    Update from birminghamcentral.blogspot..with a video:excitement:.. https://birminghamcentral.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-final-literary-countdown-ii.html
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    mothers maiden same as family

    I have an unusual issue because my Gt Grandmother reverted back to her maiden name on a census when she was widowed, why would this be the case?..seems a bit weird to me:abnormal:
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    Birmingham Odeon

    What a wonderful interior it was and a crime was committed when they dismantled it all:05.18-flustered:
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    Old street pics..

    Yes i think so, looks like a tram shed next door.
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    Old street pics..

    There's some smashing ones here of my neck of the woods, anyone know what Corys was on the Coventry Road near Yew Tree Lane. Looks like a garage and there's a petrol garage at that location now. Pleased to inform that some of the other locations in Yardley village haven't changed at all. I can...
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    buses

    I just love our old buses, wish we could have a heritage route with a couple of these beauties... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeD-ddnf5KA
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