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michaeln544

michaeln544

birmingham-uk

age-64--like collecting cameras-coins-electronics

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1970, UK last £sd coin set. - World Coinsin World Coins
3 days ago
Farewell to steam, 4th August 1968. - Railroadianain Railroadiana
9 days ago
1979-xmas party dhss office at Edgbaston. - Photographsin Photographs
2 months ago
Vintage 1966 rabone boxwood 24 inch folding ruler . - Tools and Hardwarein Tools and Hardware
5 months ago
Old civil service pay rise letter, April 1975. - Paperin Paper
6 months ago
Old civil service pay slips , 1986 to 1989. - Paperin Paper
6 months ago
Moon landing newspapers Monday July 21st 1969. - Paperin Paper
7 months ago
Old Birmingham street index map from 1971. - Paperin Paper
7 months ago
Satellite pocket transistor radio, early 1960s. - Radiosin Radios
8 months ago
Birmingham evening mail, 21st June 1988. - Paperin Paper
8 months ago

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  1. Thanks all for comments and interest
  2. Thanks all for your interest.
  3. Merry Xmas to you toyrebel and all at collectors weekly.
  4. Thankyou you gotta have stuff for the comment, would like to go over to see America, maybe next year?.
  5. The office opened in 1977 and closed in 2007. It was transferred to Birmingham City centre. I worked there from 1977 to 1989 as a stationery officer supplied forms and office stationery to different d...
  6. Was a 2 bedroom flat, no balcony, it was quite large and had an additional box room at the end of the hallway where you came in, the box room was as big as the kitchen, the rent then was £11 per week ...
  7. Thanks all for your interest. I left the post office in December 1967, I then worked for British Leyland at the Morris commercial cars in Adderley Park, Birmingham in the cost office for a higher wage.
  8. Thank you fortapache for your interest.
  9. Thankyou both for you interest.
  10. Thank you both for interest.
  11. Thanks brunswick for comment and interest.
  12. Thanks all for interest, I remember the record it was an instrumental one.
  13. Thankyou all for your interest.
  14. Thanks all for interest, a week later we had a heatwave summer and drought conditions for 18 months which led to the famous heatwave summer of 1976.
  15. Thank you all for your interest.
  16. Thank you all for comments and likes, remember watching it live when got up for work in the morning and ended up late for work,! Was not the only one though that morning at the office.
  17. April 24th, see website for more stories posted on there website when first started in April 1969.
  18. Thanks for interest,
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  20. Thanks all for interest.
  21. Back in 1972 you approached the security guards office on the right hand side with the” danger razor wire” sign on front of his old brick building which was a office where he booked the delivery lorri...
  22. Thanks all for likes and comments. Further info, gentleman standing up on first left of photo overlooking me is a Mr Harold dunkley. He took over my old job as cost clerk in 1971 when I went over to s...
  23. In 1972 it became known as the triumph motor company, bordesley green, Birmingham. In 1971 we were the first to get the electronic desk calculator which ran of the mains supply and gave a digital red ...
  24. The gentleman standing to the right of me looking at me working, wearing a dickie bow tie , his name was a mr John maiden , he retired in 1973 aged 65. He delt with the purchase invoices the suppliers...
  25. It’s a great fast lens, unusual to see a f1.4 lens on a rangefinder camera
  26. Thanks everyone for your interest.
  27. Thankyou everybody for your interest and comments, will do the outward voyage photos soon from Southampton to Auckland voyage on shota rustaveli cruise ship from 6th April 1973 to land in Auckland on ...
  28. The tram photo is at Saltley gate . I lived about a mile away in sladefield rd in ward end and was born there in 1947. The postcard is dated 1949. I remember the tram tracks been there for some years ...
  29. Thanks all for your interest.
  30. Thanks all for your interest, occurred just after my 16th birthday.
  31. Thanks all for your interest.
  32. Thanks all it was the 1960s that was the best decade for me. Plenty of jobs , you could leave one job and walk into another like going into a supermarket. I had 4 different jobs in 1966. I got one job...
  33. Thanks all for your interest.
  34. Thanks for all your comments .
  35. Thanks for all your comments. I had a coronation crown money box given to me on the same day, but now long gone and Lost.
  36. Than you vetraio50 , same to you!
  37. Thank you all for interest , for some reason the 3rd photo appears upside down , it took quite a while to upload so could be a computer error. The old bull ring back then has all gone -never be the sa...
  38. Thanks all for interest.
  39. Thanks both for interest and comments.
  40. Thanks all for interest.
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  42. You put your finger under the front cover of the camera at the top and then lift upwards at the same time pull cover towards you.
  43. Thanks both for your interest.
  44. Thanks all for likes and comments.
  45. Reply -we do not have a train day like Canada -thanks all for interest and comments.
  46. Thank you all for your interest.
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  48. He owned the 4 houses in Stirling road numbers 58, 60, 62, 64 . They were split into flats and bedsitters there were 8 in each house . He maintained the properties well and did all his own repairs inc...
  49. Thanks for your interest vetraio50.
  50. Thanks for interest sean68.
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Styx...On 45 RPM Vinyl Ivy Hayes "STORING DAY" print or painting The Story Of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 1927 20th Printing Fredrick A. Stokes Pell pinwheel flower brooch My Favorite Old Russian Matryoshka Dolls Early Loetz "Makart" Orientalism Vase, ca. 1892 Leica Camera Find SEA-LINER 17 jewels Vintage WW2 built model - Hellcat? Mega Metro Mover Matchbox Monday MB-5 1961-1962 Victorian Uranium glass chambersticks Singer sewing machine 1942 Ireland 3 Pence coin Antique game pieces One of my Treasures My Dad's WWII Leica

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Collectible 1978 $25 casino chip from the 20th Century Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Sowerby Uranium Glass Bowl with Roses Design 2565 leica camera serial no. 28566 Vintage radios Strange 1967 half error 1904 Elgin 18s 21j Wyoming Cowboy's Letter in 1907 Vintage TOURNEAU Watch Co. Swiss Chronograph Wrist Watch 2 old Leica cameras with gear The Union Bank Of Canada, Early 1900 Gold Bangle Bracelet With Emeralds J.C Higgins one all original, the other blinged up a little. greatful dead ticket 12-31-1971, and Goldrush poster ,Avalon Ballroom the 1st poster 1983 Free Spirit Banana Seat Bike Yellow 1950 MG-TD Kevins Unrestored 71 Schwinn Heavy Duti Survivor!