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  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Beasley Blythe Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    thanks mark so just a little more than half way up the street..normally i would find the map myself but i am having a problem at the min...
  • brondrange
    brondrange reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Taking Morturn's picture, Post 20 of the Trams thread, and comparing to the Street view of 2024. There is still some of the frontage of...
  • brondrange
    brondrange reacted to Pat Downey's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Ah, memories galore! I booked my own passage with Ellis Travel Agency and sailed for New York on March 12th, 1958, arriving on St...
  • brondrange
    brondrange reacted to Banjo's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Joining two photos together, I made this panoramic photo of Salters hardware shop which was situated on the corner of Gerrard St &...
  • brondrange
    brondrange reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Article from Birmingham Gazette January 1941, with present Google Earth view. “The city possesses one of the best designed nursery...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Beasley Blythe Street.
    From 1954...
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  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to rosie's post in the thread Birmingham buses with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The 7 was usually on time because of the Bundy clock on the Portland Rd./Shireland Rd. boundary.
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to daimlerman's post in the thread Birmingham buses with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938.
    With a high infant mortality rate lowering the life expectancy figure it tends to give the impression that there were very few old...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks 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...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks 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.
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks 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...
  • 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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