Just for once I’m glad to be in Pommie land. 22degC here today. Must commiserate with my old Macclesfield, Cheshire, school pal Geoff Taylor in Tamworth. Been a few years since we were there.

Bob

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> On 8 Jun 2021, at 07:57, David Batho dbatho@...> wrote:

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> Thanks for that, Mal. Very interesting.

>

> Keep safe, and stay warm! We’re looking at a maximum of 12 degrees tomorrow in Tamworth!

>

> David

>

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>> On 8 Jun 2021, at 4:21 pm, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:

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>> On 08/06/2021 16:06, David Batho wrote:

>>> I understood they used a large part of it to fill in the land (swamp?) on which Spencer Street Station was built. Did I get it wrong?!

>>

>> You are correct - much of the land west and north of Spencer St was swampy.

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>> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%27s_Hill#/media/File:Batmans_hill_1840_and_1892.jpg

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