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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    this is very sad news indeed....i was allowed upstairs a few years ago now and all the original seating was still intact... lyn
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Calthorpe Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I think "Ashley House" (post #1) and #36 Calthorpe Road (post #8) must be the same premises.
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Street furniture with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some street oil lighting fittings on Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston. These are still in place today and are visible as part of some of the...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Dionysius//88's post in the thread Grand Hotel Colmore Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The company I worked for had 3 or 4 of the Christmas do's here in the 80's . Uselesss bit of information The Rolling Stones were in town...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This was an important addition to the new Kingstanding community in the 1930s, there being few other places of entertainment or...
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey replied to the thread Street furniture.
    Brilliant piece of our city's history Viv. So Iconic, of an age before electricity. We lived in Edgbaston as a child for a while, in...
  • S
    Stokkie reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Calthorpe Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I think "Ashley House" (post #1) and #36 Calthorpe Road (post #8) must be the same premises.
  • Astonb6
    Astonb6 reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This was an important addition to the new Kingstanding community in the 1930s, there being few other places of entertainment or...
  • paul stacey
    paul stacey reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Street furniture with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some street oil lighting fittings on Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston. These are still in place today and are visible as part of some of the...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This was an important addition to the new Kingstanding community in the 1930s, there being few other places of entertainment or...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread Kingstanding Odeon with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The Odeon in Kingstanding, most recently a Bingo Hall has just closed and is now 'at risk' :confused...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Street furniture with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some street oil lighting fittings on Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston. These are still in place today and are visible as part of some of the...
  • C
    cba reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Grand Hotel Colmore Row with Appreciate Appreciate.
    sounds lovely...think i could quite easily see myself doing that... lyn
  • C
    cba reacted to Lloyd's post in the thread Sutton Coldfield Station with Appreciate Appreciate.
    2003 photo of the station & footbridge. The Lichfield platform does not have a canopy, but buildings remain. Presumably the derailed...
  • C
    cba reacted to Laurie_B's post in the thread Sutton Coldfield Station with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I saved this cutting from the Sutton Coldfield News (October 1980) which recorded the closure of the signal box.
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