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    Photos

    Looking for something else I came across this, not Birmingham but might be of interest to some. E. https://www.wartimememories.co.uk/photos1.html
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    Maurice Shepperd, Bartons Bank.

    Looking through the Aston streets list posted, I found a piece about Bartons Bank written by Maurice Shepperd. He mentions that his grandparents lived at 2 Court 15 Bartons Bank next door to the Gibsons. My grandparents were those Gibsons and it's possible that Maurice and I met there as...
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    Photo site.

    I'm not sure if this has been posted before so here goes. E. https://www.pbase.com/beppuu/old_bham&page=1
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    M M & Co

    I've got a silver cigarette case hallmarked Birmingham 1852 with the makers mark M M & Co, nobody in the collector community seems to know who M M & Co were, any chance anyone on here might have a clue. E.
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    Lamplighters

    My mother used to talk with affection about one of her uncles who was a lamplighter. As she was born 1909 I guess the period would be around 1914-25, does anyone have any info about lamplighters? All I remember is that he carried a pole and wore a cap. E.
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    Prince of Wales Theatre, Broad Street

    This may also interest you theatre researchers, in my mothers box of mementos is a programme for the Prince of Wales Theatre for June 1932. She woud have been in the early stages of her first pregnancy a the time so some special occasion no doubt. The progamme was priced 4d and had a seal to...
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    Birmingham Mail

    I worked for Watsons (Broad Street) Ltd car dealers in their garage in Villa Street Hockley and later in Granville Street for several years and two of my workmates were Wally (Bill) McMahon and his brother John. After I left Birmingham they both went to work for the Birmingam Mail in the...
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    Teachers

    Just got this from the S of G. https://www.originsnetwork.com/help/popup-aboutbo-teachers2.htm
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    Hasliston

    In my searching I have got back to a GGGranddad Peter Gibson, married 18th August 1825 in Harbourne, Staffs. to Harriet Hasliston. This is from the LDS records but I can find no reference anywhere else to the name Hasliston, anyone here ever come across it? I suppose it may be just an error in...
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    X Ray treatment

    When I was about 9 years old (around 1944) the girl sitting next to me in school showed me a mark on the back of her hand and said it was ringworm. When I told my mom she had a fit, saying it was highly contagious, sure enough a couple of days later I had one on the side of my head just above...
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    Macs Motors, Victoria Road

    Does anyone have any info about Macs Motors in Victoria Road Aston circa early 1950s. They were mainly car bodywork specialists. My aunt Ada married Alf one of the family but I can't remember their surname Mac- what? is the question. Eric.
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    Aston - What Streets Belong To Aston

    Victoria Road and Alma Street are certainly in Aston , cant help with some of the others, My aunt lived in Victoria Road No 206 I think but not sure if she was there in 1920. Name was Ada Biddle. Grandparents (Gibson) lived at 5/13 Bartons Bank and are listed there in 1920 and 1930. My mothers...
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    Potters Hill/lane

    My parents were Aston born and bred mom went to Upper Thoms Street school and lived on Tower Road until she married in 1931. My dads parents were in Bartons Bank in 1920. When I married in 1952 I moved in with my in laws at Potters Hill and my wife worked in a press shop at one of the local...
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