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  1. AlexC

    Ladypool Road.

    Clearing my Dad's house produced something I should share: The contents are all Meccano and Hornby, and from the contents of his loft, much of his pocket money was spent there... P.S. According to Streetview 213 is now a Dixy Chicken bar.
  2. AlexC

    BSA long service 9ct gold 1901 to 1926

    Janice - thanks for the link. My great-grandfather was awarded one of these in 1918 (I have no idea where it is) and it came with an illuminated manuscript (I know where that is). Unfortunately it was taken out of its frame and folded into three after his death in the late 1940s. (It may also be...
  3. AlexC

    Lingards. Nursery Road - Sewing Shop, Clothing Manufacturers

    My great-grandfather was one of four men in partnership as tailors with premises at 40 Cherry Street. Two of them were Lingards (Edward and Joseph William) and they retired from the business in April 1903.
  4. AlexC

    Henry Street Balsall Heath

    Here is the original Henry Street in a map of 1890 (surveyed 1888): and again in 1889, with details of the courts:
  5. AlexC

    Henry Street Balsall Heath

    Looking into the whereabouts of Henry Street for my Dad (now 98, but who lived in the area in the late 1920s) I found this description by the enumerator of the 1891 census: Starting at 1, after 138 Henry Street the entries move on to Carway Place, Grossmont Place etc., then Oldfield Road...
  6. AlexC

    LADYWOOD ROAD OFF MONUMENT ROAD

    Researching the Wardell family I found two newspaper articles referring to the Dairy, later Garage, at 268: The University also captured it as shown here: http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/201/
  7. AlexC

    Erdington Hall

    Just found this page as I, too, had a great-grand-uncle working at the hall with Charles Reynolds (see Nostromo above). By the way, the council's link has been updated, and is now: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50170/local_history/1647/erdington_local_history/2 More information sits in...
  8. AlexC

    The News Theatre ???

    If you want to follow up on the Jacey/Tatler cinemas, or the activities of the Cohen family, look here: https://www.jacey-cinemas.net/
  9. AlexC

    Canal Street, Aston

    Thanks. He was listed as a Chandler on his son's 1839 birth certificate, and a Grocer and Chandler in the 1851 Census, although his address had changed to Macdonald Street. (I see from the map that the Hide and Skin Market was up the road). Here is the 1847 property sale cutting: and here is...
  10. AlexC

    Canal Street, Aston

    This was still puzzling me, so I re-read the posts above and believe that I now understand. The Canal Street in Astoness's picture is this one: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/os-1-to-2500/birmingham/014/01 whereas "my" New Canal Street is this one...
  11. AlexC

    Canal Street, Aston

    My great-great grandfather was born in 1839 and his birth certificate shows 1, New Canal Street. By 1847 his father was living at 1, Canal Street (which adjoined 106, Bordesley Street), so it wasn't "New" then. (Numbers 1 to 6, along with 106, were sold by auction, with their tenants, at the...
  12. AlexC

    Old street pics..

    Just seen post 5344, and remembered that I came across this aerial shot a few years ago.
  13. AlexC

    Cherry Street

    In 1903 there was a tailors at number 40, Cherry Street - here is a quote from the London Gazette: NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Edward Lingard, Joseph William Lingard, William Cartwright, and Philip Thomas, carrying on business...
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