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    podgery 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...
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    podgery 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...
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    podgery 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...
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    podgery 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...
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    podgery 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...
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    podgery reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    we have now moved a couple of Streets to Edmund Street, this is 128 Edmund Street, with the To Let sign , I used to work for the council...
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    podgery reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    We now move to the rear of the council house and to Church Street, we have the corner here of Barwick Street and this is the Eye...
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    podgery reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This final view looks up towards the Town hall showing the brick flooring and one of the hazards of working in the city centre, cutting...
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    podgery 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...
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    podgery 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",
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    podgery 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...
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    RobertEvans replied to the thread Smallbrook Ringway.
    Hello from NZ, I was a barman at the Viking in the mid sixties before I left to travel the World. It was ‘The Local’ for the staff and...
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    Donbogen reacted to I Am Nico's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My birth sister did her DNA we are 30% Irish I am Brummie born she is Worcester. But to find them they would have to have their DNA done...
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    Donbogen reacted to boilerman's post in the thread Birmingham Irish with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Me too, never did me any harm
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    I Am Nico replied to the thread Birmingham in 1960s.
    I am told I could wear the Mac An Phearson / MacPherson Tartan and I am very very distantly related to the Turnbull Clan. I don;t if...
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