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just that I distinctly remember having to write Birmingham, Warwickshire in=
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address until Birmingham became part of the West Midlands.</FONT></SPAN></D=
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<DIV></DIV><TT><SPAN class=3D187335414-14072004><FONT face=3DArial color=
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size=3D2> Mike Chester: </FONT></SPAN><BR>Depends upon your poi=
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view. Long before 1940 Birmingham was a <BR>city borough and theref=
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not technically part of the administrative <BR>county of Warwickshire.&nb=
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Of course, other parts of the city have been <BR>hived off from Staffords=
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and Worcestershire over the years.<BR><BR>Chris Pickford is working on a =
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edition of C B of W and is going <BR>to include a section on Birmingham.&=
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I'll let him be the final <BR>arbiter of whether or not I need to add the=
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central Birmingham towers <BR>to "my"=20
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