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  1. edcartermo

    The Hydrostatic Van

    My mother's Ist great grand uncle had his nose put out by the introduction of the Hydrostatic Van as this letter of 1875 to the Birmingham Post shows. It led to an exchange of letters in the newspaper in which my ancestor defended his watering cart but the tide of history was against him. The...
  2. edcartermo

    A respectable gentleman 'decieved', Birmingham Gazette 1828.

    Charles Dickens was sixteen when this cold bit of business took place but he would go on to attack the hypocrisy behind such transactions, most famously in his novel, "Oliver Twist". Ed.
  3. edcartermo

    J Grinnel, Engraver

    Does anyone please have any information on a small company in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter by the name of J Grinnell, Engravers? I have a small photo which appears to have been taken in the early 1930s showing a group of women posing next to this sign. A search on Ancestry Directories has...
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