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    Susan D reacted to MSB's post in the thread David Trevor - Help with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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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    Susan D reacted to MSB's post in the thread David Trevor - Help with Appreciate Appreciate.
    As an update to the David Trevor story, I have recently been revisiting FindMyPast, looking in more detail at the daughters from David’s...
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    Susan D reacted to MSB's post in the thread David Trevor - Help with Appreciate Appreciate.
    @Susan D (if you're still monitoring this thread) hello again. As my collection of David Trevor CdV images has grown I've tried sorting...
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    pridd replied to the thread St Wilfreds R C School.
    They had a sister too. She was younger than me. She went on to Blessed Margaret Clitheroe Pype Hayes where I went after st. Wilfreds...
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    Dinger 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...
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    Dinger reacted to adap2it's post in the thread Christmas 2025 Greetings with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It's funny listening to Bing Crosby singing White Christmas, a song written in 1942 about Christmases gone by, and watching a video...
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    pridd reacted to boilerman's post in the thread St Wilfreds R C School with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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...
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    MWS reacted to MSB's post in the thread David Trevor - Help with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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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    adap2it replied to the thread Christmas 2025 Greetings.
    It's funny listening to Bing Crosby singing White Christmas, a song written in 1942 about Christmases gone by, and watching a video...
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    adap2it 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...
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    Dinger replied to the thread Christmas 2025 Greetings.
    That's a really nice video of the modern Christmas market. Its interesting to think of someone in 2090 finding that video and it...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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.
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