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  • M
    Mark Tooze reacted to superdad3's post in the thread Iron founders with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Think this is the same company? Advert 1929.For sale/Ebay Advert 1872/Graces Guide
  • M
    Mark Tooze reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Iron founders with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Originally the company are listed as engineers, though cranes were always a large part of the business, and it is Richard Cadbury...
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    Mark Tooze reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Iron founders with Appreciate Appreciate.
    hi superdad to go with mikes info is this photo any good to you although you may have it already..it shows gibbins factory now and then lyn
  • Morturn
    Morturn replied to the thread Galloways Chemist.
    Me too, those old chemist shops were so interesting to kids like me too. They were proper laboratory's with lots if glass and coloured...
  • M
    Mark Tooze reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Booths Farm Road Great Barr with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This must be the photo posted in post #1 and an unmarked copy of that in post #8.
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oh boy - would I have liked to have been let loose in here! A photographers dreamland....... Now replaced by some stone steps and the...
  • anthea
    anthea reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    It was my uncle also that introduced me to the joys of photography, I still have his bellows camera. There would be no photos of me as a...
  • anthea
    anthea reacted to Mark Tooze's post in the thread Galloways Chemist with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Oh boy - would I have liked to have been let loose in here! A photographers dreamland....... Now replaced by some stone steps and the...
  • devonjim
    devonjim replied to the thread Galloways Chemist.
    It seems that was what uncles were for, my dad's youngest brother taught me the basics, of photography and eventually I converted the...
  • M
    Mark Tooze 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 ?
  • M
    Mark Tooze 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...
  • M
    Mark Tooze reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Lichfield Road Aston with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Lichfield Road (Upper Portland Street area), late 1960s and mid 1970s.
  • RRJ
    RRJ reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread Maps of Back to backs in Birmingham? with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I've never seen such mapping or annotation. Back to Backs were built all over the city and as @brummy-lad said were occupied in some...
  • M
    Mark Tooze reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Kings Norton with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Her is a corner shop in Camp Lane, Kings Norton. The street name around corner is indistinct, but is almost certainly Station Road.
  • M
    Mark Tooze reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Smith Street Hockley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Mrs Leah Stewart is listed a shopkeeper in the 1940 Kellys at 29 Smith St. I regretfully have no photo
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