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AV News 196 - May 2014 Given that I normally have my antennae out at full stretch for potential AV subjects, I'm surprised how long it took for the penny to drop that there was a serious idea in all of this waiting to be worked on. Finally, the thought process kicked in when I remembered back to the visit when I was small and a couple of tiny incidents which had stayed in my mind ever since. That gave me the basis for a 'then and now' type treatment for the story. I knew I had some photos in a family album which would be useful and I found some additional images in the local Sandwell archives. Some general location photography of other derelict buildings gave me H