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    Canning & Co & Electroplating

    I temped there in the 60s
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    Friend Henry Herbert of Hockley Hill and Soho Hill

    Paynes shoe repairers used to be on that corner
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    Lodge Road Hockley (and The Flat)

    H V Smiths was next to the Pentecostal Church and next to it was the Brown Lion, so it looks as though Smiths expanded into the Brown Lion. There was another H V Smiths the other side of Woolworths
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    Lodge Road Hockley (and The Flat)

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    Balloon Street

    I have seen these recently as well.
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    1921 Census

    Agree, some say the transcriptions were done in India and others AI, but some are so obvious.
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    1921 Census

    Lots of transcription errors its quite annoying
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    Whisky A Go Go

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    Whisky A Go Go

    Margate - are these the same boys
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    No 12 BUS ROUTE

    Lloyd, my error its where I caught the bus to school and forgot it went around the town first.
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    No 12 BUS ROUTE

    It started opposite the town hall through Broad Street /Harborne High Street/War Lane/Northfield Road/Stonehouse Lane/upto the terminus.
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    Norton's of Key Hill

    Yes Lynn had another look its Norton & sons
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    Norton's of Key Hill

    I have this photo of Nortons on Key Hill
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    Messrs Rabone Brothers (later Rabone and Petersen Co. Ltd)

    Frank Morrison?
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    A visit to the Doctor.

    If it’s the one on Weoley Castle Square there were a couple of Drs lacking bedside manner
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    Where in Birmingham was this taken ??

    The building all dressed up is the Co op on High Street
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    Where in Birmingham was this taken ??

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    Icknield Street

    That’s the one I had. I really still struggle on the group to reply and post on my laptop but ok using my phone
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    Icknield Street

    I have a photo of a cafe outside a bus stop just down from the Mint pub but it’s not letting me upload it
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    Ford Street Hockley

    Mrs Parlotts house was 7 Ford street
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