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  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    In this picture we can see the sheer scale of the construction , pallets of stone slabs and the thousands of brick paviours all hand...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    In this picture we can see that it has all got a bit too much for Queen Victoria and she has gone "walkabout",
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now move back to the city centre and the construction/ redevelopment of what was the grassed area infront of the Council house and...
  • S
    Smash replied to the thread Hicken family.
    Thank you!
  • S
    Smash reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Marriage cert for Alfred and Elsie Audley is on Ancestry. Yes - at St David's
  • S
    Smash reacted to MWS's post in the thread Hicken family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Alfred Morris Hicken (son) birth reg. Dec qtr 1923 and death reg. Dec qtr 1924. Age listed as 1. Alfred Morris Hicken (father) and...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We have now turned around and walked down Ludgate Hill to this building on the corner of Lionel Street, brick built with large windows...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we are now at the top of Ludagte Hill picture taken in 1991, looks like a fire had recently damaged the building on the left doors shut...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now pop around the corner to Barwick Street, an intriguing shot of the back edge of a the buildings, it was always an empty street...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Now onto Roll 75 and we continue up and down Edmund Street with the ENT Hospital ( Ear Nose and Throat) very dour looking building and...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    and finally on this roll we turn around and come to the White Swan, 134 - 136 Edmunds Street, doesnt look like it can make its mind up...
  • Jayell
    Jayell reacted to www.midlandspubs.co.uk's post in the thread Watt Tavern - Soho Hill with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Edifi asked for a photograph of this pub so I am posting a close-up of the frontage showing nice M&B glass :
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    We have now turned around and walked down Ludgate Hill to this building on the corner of Lionel Street, brick built with large windows...
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    Donbogen reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we are now at the top of Ludagte Hill picture taken in 1991, looks like a fire had recently damaged the building on the left doors shut...
  • SteveBhx
    SteveBhx replied to the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS.
    we are now at the top of Ludagte Hill picture taken in 1991, looks like a fire had recently damaged the building on the left doors shut...
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