what a smashing postcard dave...and just look at the flowers the lady mayoress is holding...
lyn
held in honour of Joseph Chamberlain's 70th birthday.
So the date was 8 July 1906 (or very close to it),
The grave is that of Adolphus F A Higgison (or Higginson) but I can't find if it is significant. He is on the 1891 census as a retired commercial traveller (retired at the age of 40).Two from Aston, I'm not sure why you'd want a picture of the gravestone but someone might know. Plus one of Aston Hall. It has '1956' in the left bottom corner but I think this must be a serial number as it certainly before that.
Old postcards give the flavour of an age in the clothes the peple are wearing, the cars (often quite hard to actually indentify), the public transport ( apart from 842 & 843, Birmingham trams looked the same for 20 years, but the buses changed drastically over a very short period of time), but what is fascinating about the second of these two postcards is that there is a picture of a bus on route 17, which was a cross city route that ran from Erdington to the Maypole and such pictures are few and far between particularly with the type of bus in the picture. With regard to your other postcards, take the maudlin WW1 ones to a dealer and get them valued, there could be a gem in there,, any of thePCCollectors on the BHF will give you further advice.Now for Erdington and Castle Bromwich:
I hope that this has not been posted before (89 pages is a lot to look through); Reconstruction of Aston Bridge, Sunday March 25th 1906:
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Steve