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  • AlanM
    AlanM reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Hockley Hill with Appreciate Appreciate.
    could have been the cedar club...if so we should have a photo of it somewhere on the forum lyn
  • AlanM
    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Yes! It was the Cedar Club.
  • AlanM
    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Thanks for the link it's very interesting, local brands is one of my special interests. I was spelling Brooks wrong. When I worked...
  • AlanM
    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Brookes saddles was a world famous maker of bike saddles. I had a few bikes with their saddle. The other thing I remember was there was...
  • AlanM
    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Indeed there is. I worked at Electromagnets (Boxmag) right next to that burial ground (see my posts under factories,offices) and...
  • AlanM
    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Thanks, that's what I thought. It's a case of 'known as'. I grew up in West Bromwich and my parents always referred to it as Hockley...
  • B
    Ben Rudder replied to the thread Aston Hall Road (formerly Aston Lane).
    Hi John Could you provide a link to the original of the aerial image? I'm wondering if there is anything similar I'm pretty sure the...
  • AlanM
    AlanM replied to the thread Hockley Hill.
    Up till now, I've always thought that the road junction of Hockley Hill and Soho Hill (where the roundabout Hockley Circus is now) was...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Neil M's post in the thread The Great Stone Northfield with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Both maps above mark the Old Rectory and it's shown below in the 1920s along with two passing gents who remind me of Vladimir & Estragon...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Keith R's post in the thread The Great Stone Northfield with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I noted that the Moat lasted a long time but is now Old Moat Drive...
  • Keith R
    Keith R replied to the thread The Great Stone Northfield.
    I noted that the Moat lasted a long time but is now Old Moat Drive...
  • Keith R
    Keith R reacted to Neil M's post in the thread The Great Stone Northfield with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Both maps above mark the Old Rectory and it's shown below in the 1920s along with two passing gents who remind me of Vladimir & Estragon...
  • warren
    warren replied to the thread Donations.
    How is it now?
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Radiorails's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    At the age of 16+ my family decided that we would move to Devon. For a period of six weeks I was drafted to Stoke-on-Trent, I presumed...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Keith R's post in the thread The Great Stone Northfield with Appreciate Appreciate.
    How it looked in 1882.....
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