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    Everton vs Villa 1959 - Sports Argus query

    I'm trying to track down a photograph from what I believe to have been the front cover of the Sports Argus on the 14th, 15th or 16th of February, 1959. Aston Villa played Everton away on February 14th and my Dad, as a 12 year old, traveled alone on the train to Liverpool to see the game and back...
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    Wilfred Albert Bedson

    According to my husband his grandfather was something of a hero. He was a Birmingham tram driver who saved someones life (lying across the tram track) and was subsequently awarded a set of three leather bound works of Shakespeare by the then mayor of Birmingham. These books were originally...
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    Local Newspaper headlines August 1914...Post?Mail?

    Hi there, I am looking for a front page picture of birmingham Post/Mail/othe for the announcement of the outbreak of war in 1914...i am not having much luck. There must be a picture on the internet somewhere....but i can't find one...can anyone help? I have tried the Newspaper Archives to no...
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