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SWMRshanghai – By Adam Dutton A chilling collection of photos showing the brutality of life in Shanghai in the 1900s has sold for more than £7,000. Boxes crammed with 600 black-and-white images were discovered in a dusty loft which were brought back from China by a British police officer. The pictures tell the incredible story of how a Birmingham postman swapped delivering letters to tackling opium gangs in Shanghai at the turn of the last century. Albert Henry Aiers joined Shanghai Municipal Police aged 18 in 1902 and worked his way up to the rank of Assistant Commissioner. During his…