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  1. devonjim

    IN OUR GARDEN 2024

    Who needs a mower it's no mow May. The other day in "What's New" adjacent to "In Our Garden 2024" was "Peacocks in the Bullring". Well in 1990's we had peacocks in our garden, not ours they belonged to a neighbour (the same one who created the Hopwood pong) but they roamed and could cause...
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    happy birthday bob davis

    Hi neighbour! Have a great day!
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    Voluntary fire fighting WW2

    Now, two and two may be making five, but " during the war" the house I lived in had the letters "FP" stencilled on the brickwork to the left of the front door which I always understood meant fire pump. So maybe my grand dad, whose home it was, was a member of such a fire crew and the FP...
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    It's Lloyd's birthday

    Have a great day!
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    Cadbury's Bournville Factory

    Sad to read that the Girl's Grounds are no more, my wife had her leaving do in there when she left Cadbury's. Must have been 1973. Club house was licenced at that time.
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    its mikejees birthday

    Have a great day, thanks for your many posts, a map for all occasions!
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    The Bell Marston Green.

    Screenshot to make the point!
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    The Bell Marston Green.

    Looks the right place, comparing windows etc with existing building on google
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    Camp Hill

    So the photograph is of the station that was over Brighton Rd
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    Camden Street, Brookfields Birmingham

    My brother was groundsman at Wilmot Breeden, Elmdon, his house on the sports field was built by Sapcotes, trying to recall the date, perhaps about 1980.
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    Camp Hill

    Was this the station corner of Moseley Rd and Highgate Rd
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    Camp Hill

    picture 1 Daily walk term time 1951-56 up from High St Bordesley picture 3 As Boy Scouts we practiced urban tracking, involved chalk marks on pavements along this stretch of road and neighbourhood. The properties on the left of "446" were the view from school art room windows, I was once...
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Is there a fashion for colourful crocheted berets, I notice my next door neighbour makes and then sells in local market.
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    Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

    Not too proud to pull on long johns and matching long sleeve top if beach walking in the winter keeps the draughts from my old bones!
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    Malcolm Stent

    Just read on local facebook page that local comedian Malcolm Stent has recently died. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-paid-solihull-panto-king-28830374https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-paid-solihull-panto-king-28830374
  16. devonjim

    Lindegren

    Anthea b 2nd quarter '43 Birmingham?
  17. devonjim

    its vivienne14s birthday

    Happy Birthday. Thank you for your many contributions to the forum.
  18. devonjim

    Computer help

    And then it wanted my MS password, no-one has asked for that for years, but I surprised myself and managed to reset it, eventually!
  19. devonjim

    Computer help

    Thanks both, it's easy to change an "English" to something else but more difficult trying to change "Chinese" to English especially when the new machine uses different logos. But I've got there! Ta!
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    Computer help

    HELP PLEASE! Just bought an Amazon Kindle on line but it "Speaks" Cantonese! The supplier e-mails me saying "it can easily be switched to English in Settings, but how? I'm not very computer literate and don't read a word of Chinese!
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