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    Chamberlain family

    Correct!
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    Icknield Street Alert!

    Viv you have to remember Icknield st was 1 lane wide each way - the bit of road on the right of the pic. Before it was widened - this half of the dual carriageway was the 10 buildings shown on the map below from the church to the corner. You would be standing in some ones back yard back in the...
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    St George's Church Newtown

    Would have loved to see it before it was demolished
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    Aston Parish Church WW1 Memorial

    Hi Anne, Do not come on often so only just saw this thread. My Maternal Gran's 1st husband is on the memorial - Walter Edwin Knight. (I am from her 2nd husband) His surviving son Wilfred Henry George emigrated to Australia in 1956 with his family. One of his son's (David Knight) eventually...
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    Lodge Hill Cemetery

    1b Raddlebarn road is the official postal Address of Selly oak Hospital, recently demolished and a new housing estate built upon the site
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    Public graves at Warstone Lane

    The Registers (held at Handsworth Cemetery start at Burial 1and are continued (even today there are odd burials in existing family plots). If the Burial is in a Public Grave, Midland Ancestors (ex BMSGH) have on their computer in Margaret St the ability to list all in a known single grave - The...
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    Public graves at Warstone Lane

    19381 means he is the 19,381st record in the register. G 10120 is the Grave number - area on Pittsford St, next area down from Section H which borders Pittsford St & Vyse St. Very few gravestones in the area
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    Links : Jewellery Quarter Research Group (now Trust) site

    if you google them - you get jqrt - seems it is now a trust not a group
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    Little king st hockley

    Great shot. we must have been about the N in King we were facing a factory. shows our back yards , but cannot focus in enough to see which one!
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    Little king st hockley

    all the odd n umbers were on one side of the St, Even numbers over the road We lived at 79, we had friends at 69 which was the next "block" along towards Great King St. 61 may have been the end house of their block? I vaguely recall a factory with big blank end wall being at the end of their block.
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    Lucas Great King Street memories

    Great - I can see my old house - between the L & I of Little backing on to Bridge St west - 1st house, 3rd block from Guest st end!
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    Lucas Great King Street memories

    Thats it Lyn, they bent Gt King st when they redeveloped the area. The original lucas factory was much smaller than the Gt King st site and was near the end of little king st, I understand near to the juct of the original Gt King st.
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    Lucas Great King Street memories

    I believe it is supposed to be on the site of the original factory, which was in Little King St, Off Gt King ST, but niow buried under the grass when the roads were mucjked about with during the rebuild of the area
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    Workhouse Death - 1a Raddle Barn Road, Selly Oak

    Usually burial arranged by the Workhouse - cheapest possible burial in Cemetery, depending upon date of death. Not always nearest Cemetery either - depends on which ones were open and pricing policy. Death date essential to locate record in Cemetery Index
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    Hockley Hill

    Hui Lyn used to have a school friend who lived on the right just beyond the brook in a front house - Martin Inshaw - only child who's parents both worked - he had more toys and corgi cars than my entire family! Sadly they moved about 1964-5 during the holidays and never left a forwarding...
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