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This is of course the old hospital, I do not have a date but I assume it is soon after opening.
 
Stitcher, on the thread "City Centre Photographs" #1644, you have this photo taken at a much later date. It's interesting to compare them, thank you. You have been posting so many lovely pictures lately.
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Picked up this somewhat unusual postcard today. It shows the opening ceremony of the "Africa and the East" exhibition in Birmingham. There is no writing on the back but I believe the date would be around 1910 and that the event was organised by the Church Missionary Society. I have no idea where the event was held. Dave.
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Picked up this somewhat unusual postcard today. It shows the opening ceremony of the "Africa and the East" exhibition in Birmingham. There is no writing on the back but I believe the date would be around 1910 and that the event was organised by the Church Missionary Society. I have no idea where the event was held. Dave.
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There was an Africa and the East exhibition at Birmingham during June 1910, but as yet can't find details.

looks like it was a regular exhibition that moved around the country until at least 1922.
 
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Hagley Road postcard which was franked in 1905. I'm not really familiar with the Hagley Road so I don't know exactly where this was taken. I wouldn't have wanted to be one of the window cleaners working at such heights. Sorry for the dirty sky. Does anyone have a "today" photograph? Dave.
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Church of the Redeemer corner of Wyndham Road. Demolished 1970s
 

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I remember the Church of the Redeemer but I did not recognise the tower. Perhaps I never saw it from that angle. However I did place it by the shops near the Ivy Bush
 
I have this same postcard. There is a stamp on the back but unfortunately it is not franked. The stamp is a George V green halfpenny. This, plus the clothes worn in the photo, perhaps suggests 1910 or soon after. Dave.
 
I wonder, could Heathfield Hall be what became the maternity hospital, it sort of reminds me of the building where my children were born.
 
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