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    Elf9 replied to the thread Springfield Area.
    That clinic was where you had to go if you didn't have a dentist. It was indeed dreaded! We took the no.29 bus over to Handsworth where...
  • BrummieGeoff
    BrummieGeoff reacted to Elf9's post in the thread Springfield Area with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Thanks for there amazing photos - and memories!Our first telephone number was SPR3449. In the 40s I lived at 1004 Stratford Road, on...
  • devonjim
    devonjim replied to the thread Springfield Area.
    The school clinic where I had to go in 1940's The dreaded gas!
  • ChrisM
    ChrisM reacted to MWS's post in the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Elsie is also listed with George & Elizabeth Snook on the 1911 census. The transcript at least has her name incorrectly as Elise. Listed...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread BANNISTER, Mary and Martha.
    Elsie is also listed with George & Elizabeth Snook on the 1911 census. The transcript at least has her name incorrectly as Elise. Listed...
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread Icknield Street.
    Here you are, in red
    • map 1913 showing position of Rees & Felix.jpg
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    Elf9 replied to the thread Springfield Area.
    Thanks for there amazing photos - and memories!Our first telephone number was SPR3449. In the 40s I lived at 1004 Stratford Road, on...
  • mikejee
    A photo in 1910 of the Sponwell Brewery of Thomas Henry Bates in Spon Lane. The position is shown on the 1913 map below The...
    • Spon Lane Brewery, West Bromwich in 1910...jpg
    • map 1913 showing sponwell brewery.jpg
  • superdad3
    superdad3 replied to the thread St. Mary's Row, Gun Quarter.
    What a cracking photograph. Can identify many of the properties in other posts above starting from St Chads Convent on the extreme left...
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  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    First time for a while - Posting Roll 69, these are mainly City Centre around the council house when the area fronting was been...
  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Phyllis Nicklin Photos.
    I was in Key Hill Cemetery yesterday and noticed Phyllis Nicklins grandfathers grave marker on on of the Guinea Graves. Viv has...
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  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread St. Mary's Row, Gun Quarter with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Possibly Aston Street at its junction with Duke Street .... The picture shows a shop on a corner on the right with signs saying "Gilman"...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Salisbury Road, Moseley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A photo, pre WW2, from a site trying to identify unknown photographs. 32 Salisbury Road, Moseley. During WW1 and for some years after...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Birmingham horse, steam and cable trams with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a photo of a cable tram no 175 in the early 1900s on the route from New Inns to the city centre
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Monument Lane Station/Shed with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Monument lane station
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