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    James Turner Street

    This is the C.M.Blood 1857 map which is in the back cover of "A Lost Landscape" Matthew Boulton's Gardens at Soho. James Turner's House is just above the WIN of Winson Green and is much larger than either Winson Bridge House and Winson Green House which are further to the south opposite Norman...
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    James Turner Street

    The house that James Turner lived in was located more or less where Foundry School is today at the top of James Turner Street and was called Winson House. It is marked on the map by C.M.Blood 1857 and is further up the Winson Green Road from either of the houses marked on the OS 1889 map. It...
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    James Turner Street

    Re: James Turner Street I am sure that I have read somewhere - still trying to track down reference - that the street was named after button manufacturer James Turner (1792 - 1867) who was a partner in Hammond, Turner and Sons. He occupied a large house which was located at the top of what is...
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