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    Alum Rock Road Shops

    I'm pretty sure that Ted Hayes was...Ted Haynes.
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    Brummies who moved to the USA

    Maybe this is a little off topic...and requiring a spank...I don't know. Anyway; not America but a Brummie next door in Canada. Probably Canada is more likely to be a destination for Brit's than the US of A; it being a commonwealth country and has universal healthcare. Not perfect but still a...
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    The Greatest Gift

    Great poem...Subee is great at that though. I think public health care is what separates good nations from mediocre ones. (was going to say 'great nations' but not sure there are any around at the moment). America will, maybe, never be great again until it takes care of it,s own people, I think...
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    Seven Unusual or Lost Occupations from History

    Manufacturing jobs have become unusual me-thinks. Gone away.
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    Snow Hill Station

    Planes are very polluting, right up there near the ozone layer. I wonder how many people there are, up there at any one time. What's wrong with having a good time at Torquay...or Penzance...or Bournmoth. Gosh...Blackpool. You have great stuff right in your own back yard.
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    Worst car of the 1960's

    Sorry if I offend some of you guy's but I think the Triumph TR6 belongs here. Lovely sports car to look at...super looking dash...However; sagging rear springs, exhaust muffler hangers that broke regularly (had to make my own leather ones...temporary electric wire worked better...lump of a...
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    Market Hall 1835 - 1963

    Yeah...I know, but I wish we had a bit more than that from back then. Nobody cares about industry anymore and there is not much of that now. I suppose the world is unfolding as it should.
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    Boars Head Inn

    That is a stunning photo. Thanks.
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    Market Hall 1835 - 1963

    Come on guys...you can become accustomed to most anything. Built not very nicely on some Grecian style maybe...more like an elongated flack tower. Looking for some place to be to ward off the invaders. Way over designed to provide cover for a few stalls I think. For much of it's life it did not...
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    Market Hall 1835 - 1963

    Yeah...the Market Hall...of forever memory. No roof ever for most of us and yes, little plates of whelks...a good chew. Hmmm., sorry, I loved them. Gone but not forgotten and after saying that...it was an ugly monolithic building; roof or not. Missed now because it was ours. A style anomaly...
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    Midland “Red” Worcester Street

    Yeah....the Malvern bus terminus was down Station Street on the right and you can just see the Old Rep in the distance on the left. The little island by the two single deckers used to have a water trough for horses...where the two phone booths are. Actually....stand by the trough and turn around...
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    Description of Modern Birmingham 1818 by Charles Pye - extracts

    Holloway Head was such a road. Hence the name perhaps. Although the Dog and Duck seems to be at road level in 1865'. Behind the middle of the roof...not very visible... are the remains of Holloway Head windmill; which can be seen on the Lines' drawing of the Theater Royal in New Street from a...
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    Old Birmingham Repertory Theatre

    Yeah...the old rep in all of it's glory. Still there today and maybe for ever. Us Fogey's will remember that Midland Red bus terminus's were across the street and up the hill to the...hmm. old roofless market hall on Worcester Street. Was at the Rep. twice from school. One play was 'Gaslight' an...
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    British house styles across the ages

    Most of the houses that I was familiar with did not have an indoor loo...let alone a bath room. Tin tub in front of the fire place was the mode. The name or style of the house was of no interest what-so-ever. I wonder how much that situation has changed. The tin tub was stored hanging on the...
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    The Boer War

    Not an episode to be proud about....the start of concentration camps for Boer women and children and salting of their farms. Children died. War crimes do you think?
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