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  • Dinger
    Dinger reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Brickworks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Below is a photo of Smart's brickworks, in Stonehouse Lane, California, together with a map of them from 1901. I am not sure exactly...
  • Dinger
    Dinger reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Brickworks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    could be stonehouse lane houses in the distance mike lyn
  • Dinger
    Dinger reacted to MWS's post in the thread Brickworks with Appreciate Appreciate.
    From somewhere about here perhaps, you can see the square of the chimney marked to the left of the building (map flipped)...
  • Dinger
    Dinger replied to the thread Brickworks.
    I'd say its looking in the exact opposite direction - the houses are the older houses that line Alwold Road - with the "Rifle Range"...
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    Maz 60 reacted to MWS's post in the thread Cottage Homes Coleshill 1901 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    '...depauperisation of pauperism.' - that's a turn of phrase and a half.
  • D
    dib44 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread BSA Factory 1940s Onwards with Appreciate Appreciate.
    In 1940, there was a royal visit to the factory. Here workers are awaiting the arrival.
  • D
    dib44 reacted to SteveBhx's post in the thread OLD AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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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    dib44 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...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Calthorpe Road with Appreciate Appreciate.
    19 Calthorpe Road is currently to let to a sole occupier. It is described as a stunning four-storey, self-contained period office...
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    dib44 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...
  • D
    dib44 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...
  • Dinger
    Dinger replied to the thread Wimpy Bars in Birmingham.
    There used to be a cafe up that end of New Street I used to frequent in the late 70s and early 80s that had the "look and feel" of being...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Mills Of Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
    1878 The Builder reports…
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    Stokkie replied to the thread Calthorpe Road.
    19 Calthorpe Road is currently to let to a sole occupier. It is described as a stunning four-storey, self-contained period office...
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  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Cottage Homes Coleshill 1901 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    1878, The Buider, Marston Green cottage homes.
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