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    Dionysius//88 reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We are back in the city again September 1957 and this is the corner of John Bright Street Navigation Street, imagine having a corner...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Dionysius//88's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This takes me back to my days in St John's Ambulance Brigade , when this used to be the good old ice rink early 60's , I was supposed to...
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    Dionysius//88 replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    This takes me back to my days in St John's Ambulance Brigade , when this used to be the good old ice rink early 60's , I was supposed to...
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    Dionysius//88 reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Our next picture is taken in Summerhill Road, once a FIAT dealership, this now boarded up property was apparently a Cinema in the...
  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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