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How gym membership works…
A constant flow of customers. Tight, often illegal parking. Fully paid-up members frantically trying to find somewhere to leave their cars, before entering the building in order to ride a stationary...
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Transport Museum move to Aldridge, but they need your help!
Reader and top bloke David Evans has contacted me with an urgent appeal from the folk behind Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, which as many of you will be aware, is moving to Nothgate, Aldridge very...
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Off their trolleys
Just a quick one, a great little film found by local historian Clive Roberts on YouTube. Clive has been working on his own local history project for some time now, and in the process often sends me...
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Aston Manor Transport Museum saved again!
I see Aston Manor Transport Museum have apparently been saved again. I was sad to note that over late summer, the news had emerged that the transport collection formerly resident in the old tram shed...
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Going with the flow
In the modern world of asphalted roads, acres of hardstanding and housing estates by the square mile, we tend to forget that our landscape is riddled with lost brooks, springs, natural drains and...
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Start me up!
I'm hoping some of the transport buffs or maybe even Ralph Ferrie expert Tony Winn might be able to help with this one that partner-in-crime [Howmuch?] found this week in a junkshop - what appears to...
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A temperamental old lady
When I playfully prodded Tony Winn earlier in the week to see if as one of the most knowledgable contributors on the subject of Ralph Ferrie, he might have information on one of the entrepreneur's old...
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Black Country Echoes – 1950s Vintage Vehicles & Views – On today!
For early September, there's an awful lot happening this weekend and I'm making a point of advertising this event, as it's part something special, and very close to my heart - Black Country Echoes....
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Cars in the park – On now and tomorrow
Sorry folks, very busy and hanging on by the seat of my pants here - but right now and tomorrow as part of Festival Weekend in Lichfield, it's the Cars in the Park event at Beacon Park, Lichfield....
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Lichfield Rotary Cars in the Park – On this weekend!
There's a really good classic and vintage car show on this weekend (thats Saturday and Sunday, 2nd & 3rd July 2016) in Beacon Park, Lichfield as part of Festival Weekend - the Rotary Cars in the...
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Lichfield Rotary Cars in the Park – On this weekend!
There's a really good classic and vintage car show on this weekend (thats Saturday and Sunday, 1st & 2nd July 2017) in Beacon Park, Lichfield as part of Festival Weekend - the annual Rotary Cars in...
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Lichfield Rotary Cars in the Park 2018 – On this weekend!
There’s a really good classic and vintage car show on this coming weekend (thats Saturday and Sunday, 7th and 8th July 2018) in Beacon Park, Lichfield – the annual Rotary Cars in the Park event....
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