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    happy birthday alberta

    Happy birthday Alberta, have a super day
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    Palmer Street

    Easily done Mike
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    Palmer Street

    Mike, the building on the right was Cannings. I don't know about the building on the left. The demolished building in the foreground is I reckon the site of the High Stool Cafe. The centre four story building is Parmer Street flats. East and West Lodge. I understand they were originally an army...
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    Kynochs

    Nice find Mike. That second photo is showing a fireless locomotive. The were often used in areas of high risk like munitions factory's
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    Help to find a record of my parents buying their house in 1968

    Hi and welcome to BHF. I imagine in 1968 estate agents were using paper records then, so even if you can identify the name of the estate agent, and if there are still trading the possibility of the records surviving would be quite low in my opinion. There may have been an advertisement in a...
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    happy birthday to oldbrit

    Happy birthday, have a super day
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    Tyseley

    I suspect looking at those gables it here https://maps.app.goo.gl/YxDh9HnSU7tDrd1h8
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    Perry Common Road, Erdington.

    Viv They were known as a Non-traditional construction, or System build house the Boswell house. Made from concrete panels they had a number of different problems including polluted aggregate ie bits of coal and clinker on the concrete, reinforcement corrosion, cracking and a host of other...
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    member eric gibson

    Thanks Lyn, you have done all you can then
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    member eric gibson

    Would a PM be appropriate Lyn?
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    Hall Green Technical College

    Thank you for your post. I am indeed an x Hall Green student and will drop you a line soon.
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    500ft Payne and Griffiths, Birmingham Submarine Depth Gauge

    I suspect it could salt water. Fresh water is approximately 3% less dense than salt water, resulting in slightly lower pressure at any given depth in fresh water compared to salt water.
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    500ft Payne and Griffiths, Birmingham Submarine Depth Gauge

    Your most welcome! You have come to the right place. By coincidence I was in Bewdley the other day chatting to a sub mariner who said he had served for 8 years on submarines. An absolutely fascinating guy.
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    500ft Payne and Griffiths, Birmingham Submarine Depth Gauge

    I have just done a image reverse search and found this: This item is a vintage submarine depth gauge manufactured by Payne & Griffiths Ltd of Smethwick, Birmingham. It is believed to be from a British Royal Navy T-Class submarine dating back to the 1930s or 1940s. The gauge features two...
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    It's GG Jean's birthday

    Happy birthday Jean. Have a super day
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    Computer help please 2025

    Firstly, check the recycle bin in case you have accentually them, also check in OneDrive too. Here is an article on how to search you computer for pictures: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-to-find-all-photos-on-your-windows-11-computer/
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    House interiors

    The sort of thing Barry Bucknell would have been proud of.
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    House interiors

    My first thought was the block of flats is Boundary House on Pershore Road - Edgbaston Road, but the office block centre is not there now. Saying that, the site was redeveloped in the early 80's for housing
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    High Street Deritend Digbeth

    I would say its Alcester Street Lyn
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