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Yes, the mill picture is beautiful

The first painting is by a guy called Stuart Moore the others are sarehole mill By Willis Pryce and a very early painting of smethwick, artist unknown

Thanks bob I see where your at with that, it's a pity they can't keep the frontage of the old buildings and build the modern, compliance passing, building cert areas off the back of it, from the front it would look like nothing's changed and keep the look of the old building intact

There's a trilogy of books called the accidental gangster written about Eddie and his rise to fame, tells you all about his family and the club empire plus all the so called stories about the krays etc. I'm not sure but I think his daughter had something to do with them which resulted in them...

Why do they pull down beautiful brick built factories like that and replace them with a hideous metal framed sheet metal covered monstrosity, can't these buildings be made into units for small busineses or something more productive and try and keep some of our heritage :worried:

This is Birmingham bullring by Robert k Calvert

I think a company called Hacker made decks which were on a stand, I think those had Dynatron speakers which came separate

This guy has a few videos on YouTube from inside St Margarets this video is the abandoned isolation ward

Hi Dave So the story of a tunnel was probably true then, maybe there were a series of tunnels running under the site for various reasons known to the staff That's for the picture and the reply Ade

Before it was fully demolished for the houses to be built I spent some time on the estate with a mate of mine who was helping to set up the security there. Most of the buildings had been pillaged or vandalised over the year's but all the building's on this very large site were standing. It was...

Hi Bob I know rackhams were agents for Bang and Olfson, they made some beautiful HiFi systems, it was always my first on the list if ever I won the pools

I think the shrimp with the ladies head is a bit weird, sort of put me off the prawn cocktail before the carvery today I might go for the soup ;)

Typical, you wait for one bus and then two turn up :D magnificent photos thanks for sharing them

Absolutely agree one hundred percent, we need to support these shops who still provide a service in brum, they have probably survived some harsh times especially when most people started downloading music, when there gone, there gone forever and all we'll have are record fairs and that would be...

Jumpers for goal posts

My mates dad Brian Brennan had worked there since he left school

I think Eric might mean an RSL which stands for returned and services league, they support men and women who have served or who are serving in the military, there like bars which serve food and have areas called pokies where you can gamble on horse racing etc or play fruit machines all night...

You can't beat fools and horses absolutely brilliant, I also love Goodnight Sweetheart with Dervla Kirwan and Nicholas Lyndhurst