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    Taxi Tom reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    apologies the skewed image - shows what I have to start with but also if I straighten it I lose the building at the top and with it the...
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    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We now move across to the Jewellery Quarter and Legge Lane - these are a selection of old buildings but I am not sure which are left...
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    Taxi Tom reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This picture is an old printers shop in Garrison Lane seems to be on its way out, no windows tiles off the roof and the old red and...
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    Mark Tooze reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now move onto Roll 72 and something different to start and may be of use to someone although the information provided is a bit vague...
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    Mark Tooze reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now have a bit of time travel to 1964 and a view of what this area looked like, and what was lost - lots of three and four storey...
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    Stokkie reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not born in Birmingham, but he lived and worked in Aston (a district of Birmingham) between 1878 and 1881...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    apologies the skewed image - shows what I have to start with but also if I straighten it I lose the building at the top and with it the...
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    Stokkie reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It's still there Steve and mounted on an original part of the brickwork in that area, but certainly not in the position of Sir Arthur...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is an interesting sign - showing the site where Arthur Conan Doyle lived , I cannot add to this as my noted read - old sign Aston...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    and we now turn around to look toward the City Centre, looking to the distance you can see the holes in the landscape - all the old...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I know we have been up and down this road a few time this is a general view of the destruction, sorry redevelopment to improve the...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next picture forms a theme as this was closed the week before - its The Avenue, Aston Street North, as you can see it is still intact...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Next we move to Thimble Mill Lane and Long Acre, this is the Prince Of Wales , not long closed but now boarded up and the windows broken...
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    Stokkie reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Good morning apologies for the gap in posts, lot happened , but I will try and continue posting. I did notice a number of replies from...
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    SteveBhx reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It's still there Steve and mounted on an original part of the brickwork in that area, but certainly not in the position of Sir Arthur...
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