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    Shops Muntz st/The Cov

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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    Clarence Road/Holyhead Road
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    Wolseley Street Small Heath

    I remember the Tilton Road headmaster's name was Mr Hinchcliffe.
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    Wolseley Street Small Heath

    Now this is a shot in the dark but is the Janet you're referring called Jan and did she move to Knowle? I worked with a woman called Jan in the early 2000s who told me she lived on Wolseley street.
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    Small Heath

    On which road did Betty Whitehouse live?
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    Small Heath

    If you look to the end of the road you can see a house. This house looks like the house (still standing) at what was once called six ways Golden Hillock Road. If you look at the rows of houses on the right hand side, they appear identical to those on Golden Hillock on the 30's. The road on...
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    OLD BIRMINGHAM PHOTOS FROM STEVEBHx

    The beginning of the clip below starts with a film taken from the 53/54 bus heading along Bordesley green in 1960s towards Town. It shows Charles road on left and then the junction of Victoria street and Bordesley Green and a shot looking down Victoria street @ 18 seconds. Then it shows the old...
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    Bordesley Green

    We moved there in 1970
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    Bordesley Green

    We moved to the area in 1970
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    Bordesley Green

    This is a comparison with how it looked years ago.
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    Bordesley Green

    The church is still there.
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    Coventry Road Small Heath

    I thought it wasn't on the cov but just realised where it was
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    Bordesley Green

    Its the junction of Bordesley Green (straight ahead), Victoria street on right, Bordesley Green Road on Left and Cherrywood Road between Bordesley Green and Bordesley Green Road. If you go straight ahead on the Bordesley Green you next turning on the right is Carlton Road, followed by Whitehall...
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    Bordesley Green

    Junction of B
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    Pub Quiz Time Again

    Its the junction of Green Lane and Victoria Street. The board above the shop on the corner is advertising Aston Ales and Stouts but it might not have sold them. I've attached the same event from a different angle. There was also damage done to Palace Road a bit further up in the direction of...
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    Pub Quiz Time Again

    Vine pub 2020
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    Pub Quiz Time Again

    The Vine Pub changed its name to the Grapes. Its long since closed but the building is still there on Green Lane.
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    Pub Quiz Time Again

    Not the Wrexham, was not far but it was around the corner. This is on the corner. It had gone by 1970, probably many decades before.
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    Pub Quiz Time Again

    Ever Every pub had a smoke room. Then at some point we could smoke in all rooms. When I first started drinking the gunner, coach, brighton all had smoke rooms, but they were alterated and you could smoke in any room, then we went full circle and no smoking in any room, but they should bring...
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