It seems a bit extreme for pressing one`s trousers.Birmingham Gazette pictures the largest power press in the world at Rubery Owen.
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It is such a shame that messers Picot and Balfro stitched up the Arabs in the first place. Palestine was for the Palestinian’s. The holy land belongs to no one it is a universal state in the same way as the Vatican City. Israel should not be allowed to keep setting in Palestinian areas, or dividing the land to their advantage .
March 1940, Birmingham Gazette report, somewhere on Coventry Road.
Boundaries & districts are odd. My great gran died at the old Keresley Hospital, Coventry. Now a Hotel. The death certificate said Meriden.Quite far out I think, even though she is listed at Elm Cottage, Coventry Road, Birmingham on the 1939 reg. it came under Meriden (passed Clock Lane).
Given that the population size of Birmingham was smaller then, I'm surprised at the numbers. I was prompted to find this National Archives Blog on Internment of Enemy Aliens in 1940 which describes the experiences of Italians instancing the caterers Carmine (Charles) Forte and Frank Berni (who would found Berni Inns with his brother).Something that has not been much discussed, aliens during the war.
(Birmingham Gazette June 1940)
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I think they have to, although it grates a bit, as knowledge is not being passed down. The grandchildren think I am wonderful with the simplest games and make shift toys, even my fingers, that is not on an ipad or needs a battery.Some of us oldies remember and still follow making use of junk. Younger folk come on daytime tv re-inventing the wheel.