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    Ladywood 2 replied to the thread Portland Road School Ladywood.
    Your father might have left the year before or the year after me.
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Home Guard with Appreciate Appreciate.
    i cant help with info on his home guard work and you may already know this but on the 1939 eve of war register he is living at 187...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Smallbrook Ringway with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Birmingham Archives have photographs from 1961. These are not digitised though. I don't know if this is any use to you...
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    Martello posted the thread Home Guard in WW2 Discussion.
    I am seeking Home Guard information on my late father-in-law, Edwin (Ted) Walter Apted. He was an architect and lived in Edgbaston...
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    Stokkie reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread Black Patch with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An article about Charlie Chaplin with regard to the Black Patch on the BBC Birmingham news this morning, relating to a film to be shown...
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    Stokkie reacted to Lemonella's post in the thread Rotunda with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Rotunda has always been my favourite building in Brum.
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    Stokkie replied to the thread Smallbrook Ringway.
    Birmingham Archives have photographs from 1961. These are not digitised though. I don't know if this is any use to you...
  • BrummieGeoff
    BrummieGeoff reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Congreve Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    And here is a similar scene without the ladder, again probably taken around the same time
  • Keith R
    Keith R reacted to MWS's post in the thread Bayley Charles William with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Did you work out who Charles Stephen Bayley was because there is a Charles Stephen Bayley b1862, a widower, listed on the 1901 census in...
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    Cheeky71 replied to the thread Carrington Road / Dixon Road School.
    Hi Lyn I moved to Sandfields Avenue in January 1973 when I was 2, with my brother and sister who are older than me, they told me about...
  • Graham Paul Smith
    Graham Paul Smith reacted to Covroad's post in the thread Bull Ring 1960s - 1980s with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yes, technology has revolutionised civils works , I recently worked on a project where we met the designer on site, his team set the...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Congreve Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    And here is a similar scene without the ladder, again probably taken around the same time
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread Smallbrook Ringway with Appreciate Appreciate.
    You are absolutely not alone, because it is! And just think about how much was wasted building something that lasts only 60 after you...
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread Smallbrook Ringway with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I'm afraid that seems to happen in all big cities, I've only been in London for 24 years and it's changed so much - I'm sure the proper...
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey reacted to Pete Elliott's post in the thread Smallbrook Ringway with Appreciate Appreciate.
    And you dare not make a sound while people were reading, even dropping a book was frowned on , now it’s a free for all and chaos , no...
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