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  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Snow Hill Station with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Went and had a look at the retaining wall of the Snow Hill sidings on Livery St yesterday - still plenty of evidence of its "old age":-...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Snow Hill Station with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I was wondering when they were put in, and also where the other end is. Presumably inside one of the structures below the track. There...
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread Snow Hill Station.
    I was wondering when they were put in, and also where the other end is. Presumably inside one of the structures below the track. There...
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Birmingham horse drawn buses with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A picture of a Union Omnibus Company bus that ran down the Bristol Road to Griffin's Hill .... dated as 1880. The fare to go all the way...
  • D
    Donbogen reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Snow Hill Station with Appreciate Appreciate.
    They did not try to insert heated rods; they put them in place then heated with blowlamps or small coke braziers hanging from wires...
  • J
    jaspercabbage reacted to T Q's post in the thread Celebrities in passing with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A number over the years, but by far the loveliest was a good while ago now in Newcastle Upon Tyne - sometime in the eighties I would...
  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Snow Hill Station.
    They did not try to insert heated rods; they put them in place then heated with blowlamps or small coke braziers hanging from wires...
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread Warstone Lane.
    In October 1907 the driver of a tram in Warstpne Lane lost control, resulting in 2 dead and 12 injured
    • Ev.Despatch.4.1.1908.jpg
    • Warstone Lane tram crash 1907.jpg
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd replied to the thread Snow Hill Station.
    ...or just continue tightening the end nuts as the wall buckling reduces. I cannot imagine workers trying to insert a heated rod through...
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Old Meeting House. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Apparently Old Meeting Church was used by the Home Guard during WW2. Credit: www.staffshomeguard.co.uk
  • poker_pete82
    poker_pete82 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a different photo without modification , showing building next door to pub
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Old Meeting House. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Old Meeting Church had a set of Edward Burne-Jones stained glass windows, made 1910-1912. They were removed from the church during...
  • R
    Richard Dye replied to the thread Aston Technical College.
    Oh my goodness, chemistry! As a part of my BSMe in the US, I had to take 6 credits or 2 classes, I was scared to death, I wasn’t very...
  • A
    Alf Rogers reacted to izzy eckerslike's post in the thread Old street pics.. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Fantastic photo's, I've said it before but these photo's show a lost world where you could walk around and find local shops for...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Tom Knockers Wood Harborne with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The 1834 Harbourne map shows Tom Knocker's Wood, also in the 1878 painting by Charles Burt. The apostrophe could possibly suggest that...
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