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    GLASS MAKING QUERY

    Hello everyone - does anyone please know what you call the long wooden paddle like thing that glass was put on to be carried about to and from furnaces etc? A bit like the thing they use to put pizzas in an oven. I'm writing about Chance Bros and wonder if they had a particular name? Thank you...
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    Prosthetics - an artificial limb many years ago

    Can anyone help me with this? I had contact with someone at the prosthetics department at Selly Oak but they have so far not seemed keen to be any help... I am wondering if anyone knows by chance, about the fitting of artificial limbs way back to about 1900 - 1910. I know this developed a lot...
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    Schools in Bath Row/Cregoe/Ridley St area

    Hello! Can anyone advise me... I'm writing at the moment about the area very close to the middle of Brum round Washington St, Cregoe at etc, staight after WW2 - 1945 onwards. Does anyone know which were the schools round there - which school would be the one for age 11-15? Many thanks of anyone...
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