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    Taxi Tom reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Bromsgrove Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A picture of the impressive O C Hawkes Globe Works on the corner of Bromsgrove Street and Gooch Street North. They put a lot more effort...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Morturn's post in the thread old car snaps with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I can remember the Reliant factory on the A5 at Twogates when I lived in Tamworth. Images curtsy of:https://www.reliant.website/
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    Taxi Tom reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Bromsgrove Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    kershaws korner...corner of bromsgrove st/pershore st
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Bromsgrove Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A picture of the impressive O C Hawkes Globe Works on the corner of Bromsgrove Street and Gooch Street North. They put a lot more effort...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oliver Simmonds was Conservative MP for Duddeston from 1931 to 1945. He lost his seat in the Labour landslide of 1945. His seat was...
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    Morturn reacted to superdad3's post in the thread Birmingham Register Offices with Appreciate Appreciate.
    As pointed out in post 6 above, after 1837 Regisitration was based initially on Poor Law Union areas. There were originally four...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Bromsgrove Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A picture of the impressive O C Hawkes Globe Works on the corner of Bromsgrove Street and Gooch Street North. They put a lot more effort...
  • superdad3
    superdad3 replied to the thread Birmingham Register Offices.
    As pointed out in post 6 above, after 1837 Regisitration was based initially on Poor Law Union areas. There were originally four...
  • Dinger
    Dinger reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds with Appreciate Appreciate.
    At a luncheon in celebration of his knighthood at the Grand, March 1944. Doesn’t mention the work done by hard-working Brummies. “This...
  • Dinger
    Dinger replied to the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds.
    AH yes - Quite early in his career when he would have still been working for Supermarine - Brilliant bit of extra info. Thanks for that.
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    Dinger reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Cheltenham observer 6.11.1926. If you hover your cursor over the clipping it gives place and date
  • Dinger
    Dinger reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Not very much. The "assault" case was in a number of papers, almost the same wording in each
  • mikejee
    mikejee replied to the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds.
    Cheltenham observer 6.11.1926. If you hover your cursor over the clipping it gives place and date
  • Dinger
    Dinger replied to the thread Sir Oliver Edwin Simmonds.
    Cheers Mikejee - That story about him "assaulting" the kids was not something I was aware of - What date was that?
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Grotto pub Camden Street Hockley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The photo mentioned above were lost in a hack,.Do not know if this is the same one, . also a map showing th eposition of the Grotto in red.
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