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This list of businesses is made up of business names with less than 3 letters. These are sometimes difficult to find through the search function. This is intended as a quick reference for those names.

AEW Badge manufactures

AEW badge and merchandise manufacturers

Hello, i am am researching badge manufacturers in the 50s, 60s and 70s. There are many badges and key rings from that period for Jaguar, Man Utd, Liverpool, motorcycle companies etc which have the manufacturer's mark 'AEW BIRM' in a diamond on the back. Can anyone tell me anything about this...
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ATV Studios Aston
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/bbc-isliington-row.48570/

BBC Islington Row
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/bbc-isliington-row.48570/

BSA Bikes
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/bsa-bikes-birmingham.8582/page-6

BSA early years
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/bsa-factory-early-years-to-late-1800s.48410/

BSA 1900s-1930s

Bsa Factory 1900s - 1930s

Edit. This thread is about the Birmingham Small Arms factory during 1900s - 1930s. For discussion about the factory in other periods please see the thread links here: BSA early years to late 1800s...
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BSA Factory 1940s onwards
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/bsa-factory1940s-onwards.13894/page-11

BSA Factory Transport

Bsa Factory Transport

How did BSA transport their goods from the factory, did they use the railways ? If anyone has photo`s of motorcycles being despatched i would love to see them, especially by train. thanks
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BSR Birmingham Sound Reproducers

Birmingham Sound Reproducers BSR

I remember BSR decks. And I think I had BSR cassette tapes. Viv.
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C&A Modes Corporation Street
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/c-a-modes-corporation-street.41499/

CWS Factory
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/c-w-s-factory-tyseley.48256/

Dog and Partridge, Nechells

Dog and Partridge Moseley Street

Fox and Goose Hotel Washwood Heath

Fox and Goose Hotel Washwood Heath

Anybody ever heard of a pub called 'The Fox and Goose'-almost certainly doesn't exist now but I believe my elderly Mother was a barmaid there once?:)
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F H & M Joiner

F & H M Joiner

The firm of F Joiner, later F H M Joiner Ltd of 69 Water Street, Birmingham was a packing case maker whose premises adjoined the Metropolitan Theatre in Snow Hill. The buildings were built in the shape of an L, and had a frontage to both Snow Hill and Water Street. These premises appear to be...
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GEC Witton

GEC WITTON WORKS

Hi, any one who worked in the contracts/projects dept of either GEC/C.A.PARSONS at Witton REMEMBER Keith Jenney? ASTON
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GEC Witton EDO 1965-1975

GEC Witton EDO 1965-1975

Withdrawn
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GKN Smethwick
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/gkn-smethwick.52389/

GPO General Post Office

General Post Office 1890 Victoria Square

We don't appear to have a thread dedicated to this grand old building, but it's one we'd all recognise even now. Thanks to the hard work of the Birmingham Victorian Society it's still there for us to admire today. A little bit of history: The General Post Office built in 1890, was designed by...
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GPO Engineers

GPO Telecom Engineer training

At some point in the early 1950’s, my grandfather moved to Birmingham where he trained to become a telephone engineer with the General Post Office (later British Telecom), presumably putting to use the skills he learned as a Telegrapher in the Navy during WWII. Does anyone know where he'd have...
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Hi-Ton Engineering

Hi-ton Engineering Selly oak

Is this company still around?
birminghamhistory.co.uk birminghamhistory.co.uk

H P Sauce
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/h-p-sauce-birmingham.33794/

Jam Factories

Jam factories

Does anyone know of any Jam factories in the Erdington area during the 1920's please?
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Key Hill pubs
m.humphreys

Thread 'Key Hill pubs'

My mother in law kept a couple of pubs in Key Hill, must have been a kiss of death as when she left them both were demolished so if anyone has any pics of the Abbey Tavern or the Little Abbey as it was known and also the Bulls Head on the corner of Key Hill and Icknield St. it would be nice to see them again.

Lea Tavern

Lea Tavern, Lea Village

Among the photographs I inherited from my Grandparents is the attached picture of a public house. Unfortunately there is no identification on it other than ‘Fred Smith’s Ales’, but I suspect it is Lea Tavern, Lea Village as my Great Aunt lived there, and was presumably licensee, between 1925 and...
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THe Pig Market Bordesley Street
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/the-pig-market-bordesley-street.52105/

MEM Tyseley

MEM Tyseley

Hi. My mom worked at MEM for a short time in the late 70s. She is now 73 and according to the DWP she has a pension with "Delta" but she cannot find out any information. Can anyone help please? Lisa , Welcome to the forum I think you will find Delta which MEM became part of are now under...
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New Street Post Offices until 1873

New Street Post Offices until 1873

A detailed (albeit lengthy) account of the need for the new P.O. on Paradise Street/Hill Street in September 1873, just as the new building was about to open for business. The description of the old New Street P.O (at #61 New Street ?) sounds dire. So no wonder a better P.O. was demanded. The...
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New Street Station

NewSt Station 2015

Edit. There is a thread for the 1960s New Street Station here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/new-st-station-1960s.20585/ New Street Station would you believe!! Half expected some comment on this photo in the Mail the other night, but nothing on the Forum yet so is it...
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New Street Station 1967

http://www.mechanical-horse-club.org.uk/Scammells.htm Alan, this is a great link and the index information is particularly interesting!
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New Street Station From1854

Birmingham New Street's famous footbridge, refurbished after the war, showing the section spanning Queen's Drive, which still had its mid-section canopy at this time, 13th April 1960. (1997) A century of railways around Birmingham and the West Midlands : a personal selection. Vol. 2. Great...
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New Street Station - Early History 1

After the opening of Stockton and Darlington Railway demonstrated that steam railways were commercially and technically viable, the next important development in Britain was the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, which carried heavier traffic over a greater distance, opening in. From that date on...
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Rag and Bone Men

Rag And Bone Man Ragman Tatters

hi folks thought we could have a new thread going to post photos of the good old rag and bone man...i am sure most of us remember them..will kick off with these 2 that new member gord has sent me..think it was gord who took them but i will confirm that...dated 1963 ...look forward to seeing...
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Red Cow Horsefair
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/the-red-cow-horsefair.58328/

Red Lion Inn Soho Road

Red Lion Inn Soho Road Handsworth

Midlands Today featured a pub in Handsworth about to be sold. I didn't catch it's name, can anyone identify it?
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Rob Roy Pub Fordrough Street
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/rob-roy-pub-fordrough-street.41444/

The Ice Cream Man

Ye Old Engine Tavern, Hockley
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/ye-old-engine-tavern-hockley.58300/

Ye Old Green Man/ Lad in the Lane Erdington

Ye Old Green Man/The Lad in the Lane

Very sad Chris, how long has it been like that. Where do yo go now.
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Yew Tree Hotel Yardley

Yew Tree Hotel Yardley

Maybe someone could offer a date for this great view please. And a location if possible please Thanks.
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505 Manufacturing Co
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/505-manufacturing-co-ltd.47831/
 
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