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Hi it most certainly is I have been to Worcester Beacon several times and know it well.

Happy birthday, have a super day

To me it’s one of those things that was of it time. It was a novelty, but I don’t see it as part of the Birmingham identity or a significant piece of artwork.

If you look at post #102 you can see an arch shaped doorway, we were around there.

Kings Norton to Birmingham newly opened trainline Well, its been a long time coming. I first rattled the cage of the cabinet member in 2005, but its here at last. I took a ride on the first running day, it is absolutely fab.

A quick follow-up to my earlier post about the Quaker Friends Institute. Since then, I've been in touch with Cllr Phil Davis (Chair of Trusts & Charities Committee) and Cllr Izzy Knowles (Moseley ward). Both have acknowledged the council's long-term neglect of the building. Key developments...

I have stepped into the dispute and as a retired construction professional and local resident, I wrote to our ward councillors (Izzy Knowles and Philip Mills) objecting to the sale. I highlighted three main concerns: The 1982 Charity Commission trust – which obligates the council to maintain...

Happy birthday Chris, have a super day

It was interesting how she would visit the same site more than once and take another photo from about the same spot and occasionally do this more than once

Sweet water tanks?

I once found an empty nest box full of the fur off my cat too

Have a super day!

If your referring to the two conical objects they are dust cyclones used to suck away sawdust and wood shaving from machinery. They are also used in other industrial processes to as separators, but they look like the were used in a woodwork workshop. The object in the middle is an oil filled...

Its never been straightforward in my memory. In imperial, if you asked for a piece of 4 be 2 (4x2) then sawn would be 4 inches by 2 inches. If you said PAR (planed all round) you got 3 7/8 inches by 1 7/8 inches. Today’s almost equivalent is 47x 100 sawn or 44x94 PSE Timber = Planed Square...

Im just thinking out loud here and am wondering if there was ‘first’ metric house? I know on a lot of the social housing development sites in the very early 70’s there was a compromise of metric as near as dam it imperial materials used. One such place was Frankley Beeches where I was dealing...

I would say so too Viv

There seems to be a significant market in architectural salvage and quite a number of traders who make money from it.

I remember Hunt's jewellery as a shop on Lichfield Road just below Aston Cross on the right towards Salford Bridge. The 'pledge' department awas indeed a pawn shop. Access via a green doorway then down an entry.

Happy birthday Viv have an amazing day