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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Wheeley’s Lane and 2 Bank Middleway 2008-2025, not much difference in 17 years.
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    Alf Rogers 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.
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    You are calculating the average for people who survived to age 5. But life expectancy includes everyone. If you are on a lifeboat with...
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    BrumMack reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Birchfield Road Perry Barr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    E W Rees is 291 burchfield road
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Dinger's post in the thread Lickey Hills with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Definitely the Old Rose and Crown on Rose Hill in the Lickeys - Thiese photos illustrate just one of the many points that identify it as...
  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938.
    You are calculating the average for people who survived to age 5. But life expectancy includes everyone. If you are on a lifeboat with...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to MWS's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Assuming that average of the children who didn't reach the age of 5 was 2.5 then the life expectancy of everyone else was a touch over 60.
  • daimlerman
    daimlerman replied to the thread Birmingham buses.
    Yes, the Bundy clock. I seem to remember a tea stop on the route where the conductor and driver could refil their Billy cans. Or maybe...
  • devonjim
    devonjim reacted to Dinger's post in the thread Lickey Hills with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Definitely the Old Rose and Crown on Rose Hill in the Lickeys - Thiese photos illustrate just one of the many points that identify it as...
  • Dinger
    Dinger replied to the thread Lickey Hills.
    Definitely the Old Rose and Crown on Rose Hill in the Lickeys - Thiese photos illustrate just one of the many points that identify it as...
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  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Wheeley’s Lane and 2 Bank Middleway 2008-2025, not much difference in 17 years.
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938.
    Assuming that average of the children who didn't reach the age of 5 was 2.5 then the life expectancy of everyone else was a touch over 60.
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Keith R's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An obvious observation is that when the NHS came along average life expectancy would have shot up.......so many dying in infancy earlier...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The average life expectancy would have been around 47 years. Almost one third ( 228.8 per thousand) of children did not reach the age of...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Keith R's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An obvious observation is that when the NHS came along average life expectancy would have shot up.......so many dying in infancy earlier...
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