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  • Smudger
    Smudger reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I’ve just finished watching this film. It’s a real treat for a look back in time at Brum of the early 70s. Lots of shots of shops i’d...
  • poker_pete82
    poker_pete82 reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I’ve just finished watching this film. It’s a real treat for a look back in time at Brum of the early 70s. Lots of shots of shops i’d...
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    Stokkie reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I’ve just finished watching this film. It’s a real treat for a look back in time at Brum of the early 70s. Lots of shots of shops i’d...
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    Taxi Tom reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Springfield Area with Appreciate Appreciate.
    In the early 1970s I bought most of my rock albums from Heavyhead Records at 803 Stratford Road, next to the Municipal Bank. It was...
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    Taxi Tom reacted to superdad3's post in the thread Armstrong, Stevens & Son with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Many thanks Mike. Just briliant. Wonderful example of Georgian architecture. What a shame that this and so much of the Gun Quarter was...
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    Taxi Tom reacted to superdad3's post in the thread Armstrong, Stevens & Son with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Armstrong, Stevens & Son Ltd. Came across this on ebay and did a bit of simple research on line. Firm was founded in 1835! with...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Joseph Sturge Statue with Appreciate Appreciate.
    They are residential apartments with the grand name of "Calthorpe Mansions" .... they're still there. For a short while in the 1980s I...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I’ve just finished watching this film. It’s a real treat for a look back in time at Brum of the early 70s. Lots of shots of shops i’d...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Allotmenttoddler's post in the thread Birmingham University with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Loving all these B’ham Uni pics and updates thanks. I went to KEHS in 1969 so used to get the bus to Dawlish Rd ( from Kings Heath)...
  • BrummieGeoff
    BrummieGeoff reacted to Horatio's post in the thread Springfield Area with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I explained in a earlier post that my Great Grandfather Horatio George Turner opened a branch of his Corn and Seed Meachants at 836...
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    Horatio replied to the thread Springfield Area.
    I explained in a earlier post that my Great Grandfather Horatio George Turner opened a branch of his Corn and Seed Meachants at 836...
  • farmerdave
    farmerdave replied to the thread Rea Street.
    Taking the bus into town in the 1950s-60s and near the Digbeth Bus Station you could see the name "Purkis" on a building in Rea Street...
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    Time Traveller 66 reacted to John L's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some photographs taken back then (1-Corporation Street, 2-Needless Alley, 3-Holloway Circus, 4-New Street, 5-Gas Street Basin, 6- Gas...
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    Time Traveller 66 reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Take Me High can be rented for £3.49 on Amazon Prime. There's a recent article about the film in The Dispatch...
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    Time Traveller 66 reacted to lmr3103's post in the thread Take Me High Film with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I’ve just finished watching this film. It’s a real treat for a look back in time at Brum of the early 70s. Lots of shots of shops i’d...
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