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  1. norton

    Key Hill Cemetery

    Thanks. It was Jack & Harry Burgess, from my Grandmother's family that never came home. They have a 3 tier square stone monument with a stone cross.
  2. norton

    Key Hill Cemetery

    Thanks for the pictures Ell Brown. Nice memorial pictures too. There are empty grave memorials to some of my family lost and never returned from WWI.
  3. norton

    Birmingham's Button Industry and Factories

    Reply to Bryan : Re Elsie Burgess. My Aunt Elsie was un-married as Burgess was my Grandmother's maiden name. My other Grandmother (on mothers side) moved to Gypsy lane in the 1960's strangely enough though, but that lane had lots of new housing.
  4. norton

    Key Hill Cemetery

    Thanks for the photo of the chapel, by late father, Maurice Norton, told me that as a teenager around late 1930's - early 40'she would play snooker in the basement of the building, I read elsewhere it was demolished due to being unsafe. :-(
  5. norton

    Key Hill Cemetery

  6. norton

    Birmingham's Button Industry and Factories

    Yes two on-looker ladies, perhaps the cleaners? The factory is now a housing complex with shops called 'ButtonBox'. Mike
  7. norton

    Birmingham's Button Industry and Factories

    My Aunt is front left.
  8. norton

    Birmingham's Button Industry and Factories

    I have a high definition photo of 13 people outside a button business (c.1900-20ish) in Warstone Lane, B18. One person in the picture is my Aunt Elsie Burgess, the others are unknown to me. Her sister was my Grandmother. The Norton/Burgess families all lived in Hockley until there homes were...
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