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  1. Dinger

    Weoley Castle Traffic "Islands".

    The area centred on Weoley Castle Square, bounded by Alwold Road in the North, Castle Road in the East, Shenley Fields Road in the South and Shenley Lane dual-carriageway in the West, has a number of traffic "islands" with the main roads cutting through the middle of them. For example, the one...
  2. Dinger

    Lee Crescent, Lee Bank

    Edit. the following 5 posts were copied to this thread from the "Address plaques ..... " thread as this street is of significant historical interest. Maybe a new contender for the oldest plaque so far. Set back from the busy Lee Bank Middleway is Lee Crescent, with an almost surreal "Cathedral...
  3. Dinger

    Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds

    I'm researching an essay on Sir Oliver Edward {Edit - Edwin] Simmonds who served as an MP for Birmingham's Duddeston ward from 1931 through to 1945. A fascinating bloke who "reinvented" himself many times. He served as a fighter pilot in World War One, then trained as an engineer and did...
  4. Dinger

    "Better 'ole" Pub ???

    Long shot - maybe someone can help. I have a distinct memory from my young childhood back in the 1960s of standing at a bus stop with my father next to a pub which had the typical style pub sign hanging outside with Bruce Bairnsfather's famous WW1 cartoon "The Better 'ole" on it. I remember it...
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