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A concise summary of Birmingham over 100 years. Source: British Newspaper Archive -
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“In the middle of the 19C Witton was the remote and hardly-known hamlet.” Witton was the hamlet that was chosen to site the percussion...
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brummy-lad replied to the thread Rea Street.Here is a link to the 1950s map showing house numbers, the house numbers still appear to be consecutive (rather than odds and evens) but... -
My name is John Haines and my father Bill Haines was the owner of ~Radwar Motors Ltd. Initially, they were Birmingham's first Citroen...
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Once the home to the Rectory, a theatre (for only a few years) and cock fighting. Source: British Newspaper Archive
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I think you're right about the alleys for accessing communal wash-houses and toilets. I wonder if they managed to grow food in the front...
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izzy eckerslike replied to the thread Radar Motors Cowper Street.Are you displaying your Rover at Redditch town centre classic car show this weekend? -
D“In the middle of the 19C Witton was the remote and hardly-known hamlet.” Witton was the hamlet that was chosen to site the percussion...
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DFrom a hamlet with a few mills and streams and a manor house to an industrialised suburb of Birmingham and location of a substantial...
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I came across this lovely pic that shows The Anchor public house.. it's taken from Bradford street but shows a little of Rea street in...
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From a hamlet with a few mills and streams and a manor house to an industrialised suburb of Birmingham and location of a substantial...
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A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Erdington postmen heroes remembered with Appreciate.
many of you will know the history of this postal memorial plaque...it had been sited at the NMA for 10 years but was removed a couple of...
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paul stacey replied to the thread Erdington postmen heroes remembered.Well done Lyn, so very important for our cultural history, that these names of lads, who served and paid the ultimate sacrifice. I did...