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    Cromwell Street

    Hi Kate My Great Gran, Granddad and Grandma (Clarke) lived at 81 Berkeley Road East from at least 1927 -1932. I wonder if there are any photos of the street?
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    Birmingham pubs

    Thank you
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    Joseph Norris photographer

    I have a photograph from the 5 Union Passage address in my family collection.
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    Bull Ring Old Cock Pump

    I've just been looking at this website http://mappingbirmingham.blogspot.com/2012/10/pratchetts-bull-ring.html which has a good piece about Pratchett's Folly or the pump that was converted by Hollins into an Egyptian Conduit. From Hollins' sketches and the descriptions, it looks as if the white...
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    Stechford - The Village

    Thanks for posting the photos of Corpus Christi Sister Sue. My grandparents Eva Clarke and John McCourt were married there in the early 1930's.
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    Holy Trinity Church Bordesley.

    This is a picture of Holy Trinity, Bordesley taken from my Great Grandmother's marriage certificate in 1907. She was married by Rev F. Trevelyan Snow.
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    Saltley Gas Works explosions (1904 and 1923)

    Hi I don't know if you have seen this account by Richard Jones of the 1904 explosion and the fate of the three men who were killed. https://cemeteries.jewelleryquarter.net/francis-william-jordan/
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    Old Birmingham Schools - Changed Or Demolished

    Thanks mike that's great. I've added the bookplate from 1920 in case its of interest.
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    Old Birmingham Schools - Changed Or Demolished

    I have found an old book belonging to my Grandmother with a plate in the front awarding her the book from St James' Ashted Henry St Girls School. The problem is from what I have read that the school closed in 1894. This would have been before my grandmother was born, and the book itself was...
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    Dartmouth Street 1881

    Brilliant, thanks Mike.
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    Dartmouth Street 1881

    Hi Phil (and Mike) do you know which way the street numbers on the photograph run please? I'm interested because I've just discovered my great, great grandfather John William English on the electorial register at number 103 in 1896.
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