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A close up shows numerous cable going in different directions, either they are to hold the thing up or I wonder if it's the early days of telephones

Very sad news, my condolences to his family

My father used to deliver parcels for British rail, his round included Rubery. During the school holidays I used to go with him and sometimes there were parcels for Rubery hospital. I never forgot the shock of seeing a row of patients, about 10 of them, pulling a large wooden truck with...

We used to regularly go fishing in the Teme valley, Worcestershire in the 1960's and there were numerous hop fields and Oast houses everywhere. One place we went countless times was Eardiston where we fished the river Teme by the old mill, on the way down the track we passed rows of little...

I'm thinking some of them must be going one of the 7 day coach cruises, not a day trip with suitcases

The caption for the photo says they are boarding midland red buses

---------------------------------------------------- I don't know how we came to have it, I remember seeing it at my Grandads when I was little

This isn't strictly a domestic item but this huge 10" key been in our family for as long as I can remember. Perhaps it's the key to our ancestors castle!

We have a 100 year old broom, so far it's had 5 new heads and two new handles :joy::joy:

We have the central heating on first thing in the morning and again now and then during the day but we also use those little 3 bar halogen heaters which are just 400 watt per bar and give out a lot of instant heat. Here is an old photo of a burst pipe in the loft for some unfortunate resident...

Lovely original photo and thankfully not computer coloured. It looks like a nice area, maybe for people who were better off so no evidence of it being a slum

Many happy returns Maurice

Much better to see it as original B&W, I see so many old photo's converted to colour and personally I don't like it. On Facebook groups there are old Victorian & Edwardian era street photo's of Birmingham and other places that have been ruined with horrible garish colour and I just can't see the...

I used to love my fishing but not been for decades, both my dad & I began fly fishing in the 1960's. I got a Veniard fly tying outfit for my birthday and began tying dry flies. I ended up with a large suitcase full of Veniard feathers & equipment which I still have. The dry flies require...

The biggest themed display had to be the Dutch Tulip festival which went on every year, They built a wooden windmill as well and had ladies in costume wearing cloggs

There are numerous ways to upgrade to 11 and bypass the checks, even Microsoft are telling you how to do it providing you accept responsibility. Why would they do that though?

After endless problems with dried up printing heads I got a Xerox mono laser printer/scanner and am well pleased with it, it also prints on both sides of the paper if required so more often than not it saves wasting paper

Happy birthday Lyn

There's a video on Youtube showing this event, you can see the airship dropping water ballast all over the crew!

How about this one :eek: USS Los Angeles airship lands on USS Saratoga, January 1928 (Fb Historic photograph group photo)