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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    The next few images are the redevelopment of the Lichfield Road in 1991, first thing is this is a single carriageway, to fix the...
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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next image is shown for interest as the quality is not good and also shows what is often the starting point of the images - a photo of...
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Last bus image for the moment described as special at the bottom of old Dale End and Coleshall Street in 1960, as always in the middle...
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  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Next image is shown for interest as the quality is not good and also shows what is often the starting point of the images - a photo of...
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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Described as " coming down High Street Deritend ", that is all I have to offer I am afraid, the area is quite different from today, note...
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    Described as " coming down High Street Deritend ", that is all I have to offer I am afraid, the area is quite different from today, note...
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    oldjoe reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Dunlop Building with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It also involved a man on one of those little digger things with a kango-hammer end bit - he was left right on the end of the remaining...
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    oldjoe reacted to mikejee's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
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    oldjoe reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Back to bus images - slightly different, turning out of High Street into Vicarage Road Kings Heath - on the outer circle route , we...
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    oldjoe reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    To make a change from buses here are a couple of pictures of the old market hall , taken in 1920 and rather poor but give an idea of the...
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Only making a guess here - the clothes look like from the 1940s? Also, it looks like the Market Hall is without the roof and the windows...
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    oldjoe reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Big thanks to Radiorails for the "correct" bus information I have gone through and edited my entries where necessary! Shown in the good...
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx reacted to Alf Rogers's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Great photos, Steve! Yes, the mark I Ford Capri dates the photo to 1969 or later, while the Datsun Cherry on the right was launched in...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Dunlop Building with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yes they were - forgot about them! We also used to have inter-factory accounting dept at the very end of the top floor but they had...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to devonjim's post in the thread RIP OZZY OSBOURNE with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Or do as my daughter, work in an office on Broad St
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