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I am thinking its the corner of Marsh lane and Gypsey Road

I know i can be done in Google earth, but the National Library of Scotland has a super collection of maps, free to use and without all fo the personal data gathering too. There is also a programme called QGIS where you can make your own custom map layers. Did you have anything specific in mind?

It looks to me like the old Taylor Memorial Home now called the Birmingham Hospice - Erdington

Thanks, I did look at this and the Church Warden said it had been restored. I am glad to know that its been done really well with no doubt conservation grade materials

Apologies Mike that was my error it is as you point out Thomas Mills & Son. Thank you too for the information..

I popped out to look at St Chad Church in Wishaw today. It’s a church that stands almost on its own as Wishaw does not really have a village centre. To the north there is what was a country house, now the Belfry. To the southeast there is a moat form a moated manor house 1Km away and another one...

Indeed she was a lovely kind dog, glad to have known her.

Let's take a moment to remind ourselves how this thread started – it was about an AI photo restoration to help someone identify an ancestor. It's useful to have this discussion to help other members gain a better understanding of the subject, especially now that we're seeing a few AI-manipulated...

Your spot on with that Viv eyes, hands and fingers and the HDR look. There are a few so-called Birmingham History Face Book groups who are posting AL slop and getting all nostalgic about a golden past that never way. It making a nonsense out of encouraging people to think about the past and events

AI’s origins go back to ancient myths about artificial beings endowed with intelligence by master craftsmen – from Greek automatons to Hebrew golems. That idea carried forward into the modern era, most famously through Alan Turing's work on computability and his 1950 paper on thinking machines...

i recall that style as "Curls on Top"? Again a lot of work to get that looking right

I recall there was a ramp off Long Acre next to what I think was a car dealership

Here is a map of the West Midland rail consessonary travel map. Its a couple of years old now and I am not aware of any changes other than the new Mosley, King Heath stations

That looks super and I can imagine a lot of work went into doing it.

I completely agree that there were old people, i spend quite a lot of time in cemetery's and am always amazed to see the grave marker of a 90 year old, so I am not denying that. But you are describing 'life expectancy at age 5,' which is a different statistic entirely. Life expectancy at birth...

You are calculating the average for people who survived to age 5. But life expectancy includes everyone. If you are on a lifeboat with 10 people, and 2 people die on day 1, you don't calculate the average survival time by only counting the 8 who lived. You count all 10. Excluding the children...

Well, if you need an explanation, then one's not really possible—and that's fine! We can happily agree to disagree.

Are we talking about the same Birmingham here? I've been into town today and the place was wonderful. I was there last weekend too. Those big department stores are of their time and have been slowly disappearing for years. Lewis's, Henrys, C&A, Greys—and eventually Rackham's—simply no longer...

The average life expectancy would have been around 47 years. Almost one third ( 228.8 per thousand) of children did not reach the age of five and looking at how impoverished these kids are and with WWI most of these would have not lived beyond 1940.

As you say, superb quality. Many thanks for sharing them