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  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Unknown Birmingham photo.
    Mike, my first thoughts are it could be Birmingham as the houses look like back to backs. I am not aware of other towns or cities who...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Unknown Birmingham photo with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This photo is claimed on Facebook to be of an unknown place in Birmingham. It is not familiar to me, and is, of course, not necessarily...
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    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread ARP volunteers/workers who served in Birmingham in WW2 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The above is an alphabetical list of civilians serving in ARP functions during WW2. It brings together all the, so far, known names of...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread ARP volunteers/workers who served in Birmingham in WW2 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is a list of known civilian volunteers/workers who served in the different functions of Air Raid Precautions (ARP) during WW2. It...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Hall Green Hall with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hall Green Hall, William A. Clark. 1935. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Sarehole Mill with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sarehole Mill, P.W. Robinson. 1933. (Birmingham Archives and Collections)
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    tomkil reacted to Dinger's post in the thread Toy/Model Shops City Centre with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Advert from 1944 for "Studette Handicrafts" of Kent Street, Birmingham 5, who made a range of "solid" model aircraft. They would have...
  • mikejee
    mikejee posted the thread Unknown Birmingham photo in Old & New Brum Pictures.
    This photo is claimed on Facebook to be of an unknown place in Birmingham. It is not familiar to me, and is, of course, not necessarily...
    • unknown place in brum.jpg
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    Lynag reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Cox's Bakeries with Appreciate Appreciate.
    i have a shed load of birmingham books a lot with old photos..tomorrow i will go through a few just in case lyn
  • L
    Lynag replied to the thread Cox's Bakeries.
    That’s awesome! Thank you. Re the map, do you have a view of Iknield Port Road? Mom‘s grandparents ran the sweet shop at 176 Icknield...
  • L
    Lynag replied to the thread Cox's Bakeries.
    Yes that’s correct. It was Arrowsmiths greengrocers in the 40‘s. Hoping that someone has a photo somewhere! Thanks.
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    Lynag reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Cox's Bakeries with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It looks like Coral's was 197&195, the entry on the far right would have accessed No. 193. On the image attached I think No. 193 is just...
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    Lynag reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Cox's Bakeries with Appreciate Appreciate.
    yes i also noticed the outline of the fireplace..at the min its the best we can do but dont give up yet on finding a good photo.. lyn
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    Lynag replied to the thread Cox's Bakeries.
    We hope someone will have a photo somewhere Appreciate you asking Carl too.
  • L
    Lynag replied to the thread Cox's Bakeries.
    This is wonderful, thank you. It’s the only picture we’ve seen of the shop, still hoping someone will have a closer view.
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