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    Birmingham or America?

    Can anyone tell me where on earth this picture was taken? I found it among my mother's old photos. She was born in 1910 and is possibly the child in the sailor clothes. In which case the photograph is definitely in Bham. Or is it really in America, as per the signs?
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    Rokesley Lodge, Selly Oak

    An aunt lived at this address in 1911. I see that Rokesley is now part of Bham University, but what was it then? Her husband was a domestic coachman.
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    Pen factory

    In 1901 my grandmother was living at 132 Farm St and worked in a 'pen factory warehouse'. Does anyone know where this would have been? And what sort of pens are we talking about? Fountain?
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    Wartime Hospitals

    My grandmother worked in a hospital in WW1. She had five children and a husband away in the war, so would that have been voluntary work or paid? She lived in Smethwick or Erdington, so which hospital would have been most likely. Are there records for these hospitals with the names of inmates and...
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