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    new john street

    Thanks mike jee for the map. Very useful. My gt gt grandfather was a brass worker and I suspect that he probably worked close by as there are a number of brass foundries in the immediate area.
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    new john street

    My gt grandparents lived at a couple of addresses in New John Street - No 2 Court in 1901 and Back of 164 in 1902. Does anyone have a map that shows where these were? I see from the map in the previous thread that no street numbers appear to be marked. I presume that cross-referencing with a...
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    Metropolitan Cammell Archives

    Hi Willmott, my great grandfather worked at the Oldbury Carriage Works as a Puddler. I would be interested in any information that you had relating to either to this carriage works in particular or carriage making in general. Do you know if there would be anything in the Metropolitan Cammell...
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    Oldbury Carriage Works

    I have seen the photo and have downloaded the Oldtime Oldbury history. What I really want to do is confirm that my ancestors really worked at the site and what that actually did. Sourcing old payrolls would be a great help. Maybe Sandwell Archives will be able to help me. Thanks for the...
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    Oldbury Carriage Works

    My great grandfather worked at the Oldbury Carriage Works from at least 1911 onwards. He lived close by in Century Road. I believe his sons worked there as well and were probably still working there during WW1 when they were making tanks. Does anyone know where I can research this - are there...
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    The Beehive

    Brenda Yes you are right Jasper Carrot did work at the Beehive. My mother worked there in the fifties I think. She remembers him well.
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    Coleshill St and Gt Lister St

    I have found an old map of Great Lister Street showing the junction with Windsor Street. I have added numbers 34 through to 39 and placed them in positions where I think they are indicated by the 1940's Kelly's Directory (which I found elsewhere on this forum). I have also found a photo on this...
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    Coleshill St and Gt Lister St

    Many thanks pmc1947, I did find something in that thread that helps me enormously - a Kelly Directory listing identifies 37 and 39 Great Lister Street as being a few door down from Mrs Keens shop on the corner of Windsor Street. I note that the listing for no 39 shows a Mrs Nora Pickersgill a...
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    Coleshill St and Gt Lister St

    My great grandmother lived in Coleshill Street (No 79) and also various addresses in Great Lister Street (No's 9, 37 and 39) in the early 1900's. I would love to get hold of some old photo's of these streets at about this time. I would also like to find out whereabouts these addresses might be...
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    Firefighters Medal

    After my grandfather Alfred THACKER (incredibly one of 22 children) died in the late 60's my mother gave me his medal which he had apparently got as a fireman in Brum during WWII. The medal has a purple ribbon and is embossed with the insignia of the National Fire Brigade Union. The reverse is...
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    Fire Brigade Medals.

    Medal Research Since my post yesterday, I've managed to do some research on the medallion or probably more correctly pendant. I've found a hallmark which shows it as Brmingham 1907. There's also a makers mark WHH which appears to be William Hair HASELER a jeweler of 8 Hylton Street Birmingham...
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    Fire Brigade Medals.

    More firefighters medals After my grandfather Alfred THACKER died in the late 60's my mother gave me his medal which he had apparently got as a fireman in Brum during WWII. The madal has a purple ribbon and is embossed with the insignia of the National Fire Brigade Union. The reverse is...
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    Workhouse Infirmary 99 Dudley Rd 1 Western Road

    ! Western Road I have recently received the death certificate of my Gt Grandmother, Beatrice HORTON's mother, to discover she died at 1 Western Road in 1936. Is this not Dudley Road Workhouse as well? I must admit I am a bit confused about what address relates to what. I assume at the moment...
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    Workhouse Infirmary 99 Dudley Rd 1 Western Road

    Dudley Road Hospital I was born in Dudley Road Hospital in 1961. Imagine my surprise when I learned that the birthplace of my Grandmother Beatrice HORTON in 1908 (shown as 99 Dudley Road) was in fact the old Workhouse (presumably the infirmary) and this became Dudley Road Hospital. Family...
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