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I already included that link on my post Teddycat

Jesse Hills workshop is an amazing step back in time as it's full of antique machines running from overhead countershafts and still in use! https://www.westleyrichards.com/theexplora/jesse-hill-gunmakers-photography-bybrett/

--------------------------------------------- That photo is quite interesting and also rather odd, seeing a lamp post actually sitting in the road along with the post for the washing line o_O . the scaffolding is also very basic compared to more modern times but it's clearly set up with boards...

ITVX have now added a programme about the "real Nolly" Helena Bonham-Carter narrates it. I have not watched it yet myself though

I'm running Win10 still using my Win 7 ultimate key I bought in 2009 as it lets you keep upgrading for free. It came with two disks, inc one for 64bit which I use. My PC failed the Win11 check and although there are easy ways to get around it I can't be bothered. An electrical shop near us...

I have made a number of Youtube videos and tried some of the so called "free" ones. In the end I just went back to the Win10 video editor which works just fine

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Apparently there was a mass breakout from the Stoke Prior reformatory A SPECTACULAR break-out by more than 60 wayward teenage boys from a Worcestershire reformatory naturally captured the headlines in Berrow's Journal this week exactly a century ago. "Revolt by Stoke Reformatory Boys" was the...

Here is one uncovered by demolition in 1962 , BP&M

Coin collectors refer to the portrait on this coin and on the pub as the Gothic head, Florins were also issued with the Queens young head, old head and Jubilee head. Also Double florins or four shilling pieces were issued with the Jubilee head

It's about time you came out, you must be hungry by now :p

This is a Maisonette at Rubery in 1963 where the water tank in the loft had burst and then frozen

This photo shows Needless Alley traders in 1974, does anyone recognise someone?

Last year we walked along from Bidford to the Marcliff lock and opposite the river just past the BAA car park were hundreds of swans in the fields only a few in the river, never seen anything like that before, they must have come from miles around, really strange

Maximum speed permitted 15 mph ? they go way faster than that in Redditch, the things are a menace and just abandoned everywhere you go

Here in Redditch there is an ongoing electric scooter trial period where you can hire one via your mobile phone, problem is they get abandoned everywhere when the allotted time runs out. Usually the cretins that ride them just step off and walk away, often leaving the scooter in the middle of...

I spent hours in there in the 1950's, dad used to deliver BR parcels in Rubery & Barnt Green area and in the school holidays I often used to go with him. While he sorted out the order of the parcels at Curzon St I used to wander around, I remember gigantic curtains that could be used to block...

I forgot to mention I worked in both of them doing building repairs etc

The only two premises I remember were the one in Irving street off Bristol street Horsefair and one in Aston which had their offices etc

Here is a photo from an old book, it shows New street and Council House Square in1875, it was renamed Victoria square in 1901. Look at all those shop blinds, something you rarely see now, also a sign for the 'Waterloo Bar'