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    Richard Middlemore, the UK's top eye surgeon (1800s) from Birmingham

    Pedrocut, thanks for these additions to the thread, that last one was a great read. He was such a good man, and the £2000 and £1000 he donated would probably be around £399,000 in today's money. Of the brothers, William owned the saddle company, jointly with James for 10 years, until James...
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    Richard Middlemore, the UK's top eye surgeon (1800s) from Birmingham

    Also, I have been writing this 'middlemores' blog, I don't know if anyone may find it interesting? https://middlemores.wordpress.com
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    Cheshires Brewery - Quinton High Street

    This a nice Cheshires picture.
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    "the Blues Houses" For Footballers, Sheldon

    I used to get my haircut at The Grange Saloons by the Blues ground. Eric the barber told me that around WW2 time the houses along Coventry Road, where there is a small inlet uphill in the road, just before the Arden Oak, were owned by a builder who also owned BCFC at the time and the players...
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    Fever hospitals in Birmingham 1930's

    Wagon Lane.
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    Richard Middlemore, the UK's top eye surgeon (1800s) from Birmingham

    I think Richard Middlemore deserves more recognition than he ever has had. Not even a blue plaque as far as I know. He worked at Birmingham hospitals, wrote books and gave lectures. He also had a clinical practice at 23 Temple Row which building doesn't exist probably, because of the destruction...
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    Wilby saddles

    Someone sold this today.
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