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  • Keith R
    Keith R reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Cadbury's Bournville Factory with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An interview nine years ago with Anne Whitworth, who has just died. It is aimed at those interested in computer history, but she was...
  • Keith R
    Keith R reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Cadbury's Bournville Factory with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Early automation at Bournville. Photo from 1929. Cocoa tins being manufactured and lined at Bournville. At that time virtually every...
  • Dinger
    Dinger replied to the thread Christmas 2025 Greetings.
    I remember that giant neon "S" for Schweppes sign. On the side of a tall building in Digbeth. - Didn't it then transform into a glass...
  • D
    Donbogen reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Erdington in the 18th and 19th century with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Three years after the Tithe Map…March 1836, Aris’s. Shows that GH’s father Charles built this considerable dwelling in Erdington.
  • J
    johnny082 reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Christmas 2025 Greetings with Appreciate Appreciate.
    well folks not that long to the big day now so wishing everyone on the forum a happy christmas..at the risk of boring you all :D i just...
  • MSB
    MSB replied to the thread David Trevor - Help.
    A further unusual postscript is about David and Mary Jane's third daughter Elsie who married Victor Blocksidge and moved to the London...
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  • MSB
    MSB replied to the thread David Trevor - Help.
    As an update to the David Trevor story, I have recently been revisiting FindMyPast, looking in more detail at the daughters from David’s...
  • devonjim
    devonjim replied to the thread Moulders.
    Pete, found this very old post, from 2009 I think, reminds me of when I was doing casting of ZBA at WB Farringdon, making parts for...
  • Dinger
    Dinger reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Christmas 2025 Greetings with Appreciate Appreciate.
    i miss Brum at Christmas time glad we have the bhf
  • castalla
    castalla replied to the thread St Wilfreds R C School.
    Nice to hear a few names that come back to you , sometimes faces you remember as well. Great some of you can bring these names to the...
  • boilerman
    boilerman reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Rag and Bone Men with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we kept horses and i dont smell of them now.or its the other smells masking it:grinning::grinning::grinning:
  • boilerman
    boilerman reacted to pridd's post in the thread St Wilfreds R C School with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I went to st wilfreds school. I left 1965. I rember Mrs Corbet she had distinctive large blue eyes. She used to take some kids for...
  • boilerman
    boilerman replied to the thread St Wilfreds R C School.
    I left in about 63, and was in the same class as Steven Phipps, Andrews brother, there was also Paul Wright, we went on to the Abbey in...
  • Brummie a long time ago
    Brummie a long time ago reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Fazeley street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    the mily bar kid patrols that st so be carful you all...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Fazeley street with Haha Haha.
    the mily bar kid patrols that st so be carful you all...
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