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    dib44 reacted to Neil M's post in the thread The Great Stone Northfield with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Birmingham Civic Society presented a plan for the conservation and road redevelopment of Northfield Village in 1920 and produced a...
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    dib44 reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Steam Locos with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I thought the original plan to Euston was scrapped by the previous government, but was then reinstated. The tunnels from Old Oak Common...
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    johnny082 reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    corner of victoria square and colmore row..some nice inside shots lyn
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    johnny082 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Humorous And Interesting Newspaper Stories about Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
    April 1900 in Hill Street… “On Monday afternoon, the 9th inst., there slowly emerged from the mouth of an underground pipe in...
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    johnny082 reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Birmingham Hippodrome with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Same view (?) in 2025. At this time, there was talk of it being renamed the Hammond Theatre (named after Alison Hammond). Did that happen ?
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    johnny082 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Birmingham Hippodrome with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is a view looking outside from the Birmingham Hippodrome during the extension of the stage in 1981. A big task, as the extension...
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    johnny082 replied to the thread forgotten memories of the 1960s.
    Agree with all Mike has said.Th 1/3 pint milk bottles of milk we had at school always came with cardboard tops but I can't remember any...
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    devonjim replied to the thread forgotten memories of the 1960s.
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    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    If they remove the flyover, will it be as it used to be, with a policeman controlling the traffic? For some reason, I particularly...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Was looking at those interior photos on Facebook yesterday. Martyn Ingham, who posted them on FB, said his father was the pharmacist at...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Galloways Chemist.
    A time when photography was tremendously exciting, interesting and rewarding. Waiting for your transparencies or print films to be...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    corner of victoria square and colmore row..some nice inside shots lyn
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    brummy-lad reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread Hockley Hill with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Seen this morning in the Birmingham BBC website, I wasn't quite sure where to post this! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v4z57qg7no
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Lichfield Road Aston.
    Lichfield Road (Upper Portland Street area), late 1960s and mid 1970s.
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    A Sparks replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Seen this morning in the Birmingham BBC website, I wasn't quite sure where to post this! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v4z57qg7no
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