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    Coventry Road Hay Mills

    There is one here east of the Bulls Head: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/coventry-road-to-forest-road-4/
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    Coventry Road Hay Mills

    Yes, I think you are right. They had no one living there by 1971. I don't suppose there are any photos?
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    Coventry Road Hay Mills

    It seems strange that they went so early. Did you hear why?
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    Hannams Bakery. Hay Mills. 1056 Coventry Road. VIC 0700.

    See: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/coventry-road-to-shipway-road/
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    Hannams Bakery. Hay Mills. 1056 Coventry Road. VIC 0700.

    See: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/coventry-road-to-shipway-road/
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    OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS

    Highfield Road, Hall Green, the date I have is 15th March 1961, and the reference suggests a Town Planning Application photo: x65765 6. Became Highfield Hall Community Centre. Henry and Mair were dance teachers pre- and post-war.
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    Field Gate Farmhouse, Acocks Green

    AGHS has a picture of Fieldgate Farm at the bottom of the Yardley Road page
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    Flint Green Road

    The website says that Sherbourne House is number 42, and not that it is 44.
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    200 years of Nelson in the Bull Ring

    Does the Dublin one count, opened four days earlier? I know it was blown up in 1966
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    Save Birmingham

    I could write plenty on the sites I care about and know well. I have looked at the Save Birmingham website, and it is a very laudable exercise. It may be missing the point, if the following passage from Birmingham Live in January is accurate: "That leaves libraries in 25 neighbourhoods at risk...
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    Save Birmingham

    As I understand it, the City did not buy an off-the-shelf product that worked but demanded that the company re-write its software to suit the various different systems all over the council that were already there. Birmingham thinks it is bigger than everyone else and can therefore require this...
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    Save Birmingham

    In case you think my post is 'political', I might add that local libraries promote local history. You can say goodbye to that.
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    Save Birmingham

    The Council has produced a strategically framed plan to cripple the library service. The 24 libraries to be identified as of no use any more are not being mothballed until better times but withdrawn. The remaining buildings will not be libraries with other useful services added on but absurdly...
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    There was another one in 1902.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    I know about their wedding anniversaries. I can't see the article
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    Acocks Green Congregational Church

    It is by Geoff Dowling
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    Congretional church in Hay mills in the 1950s

    I have added to the page a colour image of the interior, taken in1984. I hope that brings back memories.
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    What puzzles me is why there are so few images of Hay Mills, Yardley and Stratford Road Hall Green. Multiple copies were apparently made for Planning meetings, so why the gaps?
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    Congretional church in Hay mills in the 1950s

    Try here, at the end of the page: https://aghs.jimdofree.com/coventry-road-to-forest-road/
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    Harrison - Butchers and Slaughterhouse Yardley

    I am interested in what was displayed and the background to the items that were collected. Would you be able to say a bit more?
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