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  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Sumner Bros 28 Digbeth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    These were seedsmen, hop and corn dealers in Digbeth and were sucessors to the former Edward Freer business. The factory looks...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread The Woolpack Moor Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The photos on this thread of the Woolpack show a rebuild of an earlier 'Woolpack' dating as far back as 1709. Polution had taken its...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread The Woolpack Moor Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The photos on this thread of the Woolpack show a rebuild of an earlier 'Woolpack' dating as far back as 1709. Polution had taken its...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Sumner Bros 28 Digbeth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    These were seedsmen, hop and corn dealers in Digbeth and were sucessors to the former Edward Freer business. The factory looks...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Winters of 1947 and 1963 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we still had to go to school,we used to sit up front right by the gearbox housing on the old buses it always warmed your cold feet
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Valor Heating with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Dad put some ting in with the paraffine to stop the smell. they were great as long as you did not stand to close with nylon cloth's on...
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey replied to the thread Valor Heating.
    don't remember any of those, but the one on #71 looks familiar!!
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Valor Heating with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Dad put some ting in with the paraffine to stop the smell. they were great as long as you did not stand to close with nylon cloth's on...
  • B
    Bobx reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Latimer Street, B15 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Not exactly what you were asking, but Latimer St was not listed in the 1845 directory,, but by the 1849 edition had a beer retialer...
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread Latimer Street, B15.
    Not exactly what you were asking, but Latimer St was not listed in the 1845 directory,, but by the 1849 edition had a beer retialer...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Valor Heating with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I loved the smell of those paraffin heaters. Had one in the hall of a cold and damp flat I lived in and it was very effective.
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread The Square Old Square with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The new Ring Road section linking Dale End with Old Square, Birmingham, during rush-hour diversions. 7th January 1963 Mirrorpix
  • B
    Bobx replied to the thread Latimer Street, B15.
    Does anyone know when the houses in Latimer Street were built?
  • B
    Bobx replied to the thread The Colwyn Great Colmore Street.
    I used to live opposite The Colwyn in the late 1950s when it was Latimer Street, does anyone know when it was built?
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks replied to the thread Valor Heating.
    Yes indeed, we had one too!
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