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    Formans Road Sparkhill

    Does anyone have any old photographs of Formans Rd, Sparkhill that they would be kind enough to share? Also the Lucas Girling factory in Tysely, the allotments along Formans rd, (I think they were called Springgrove), St Johns CofE school Stratford rd, etc... and anywhere in that vicinity...
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    Birchfield rd shops Perry Barr

    Can anyone remember shops in Perry Barr, around George Baines bread shop? Dewhurst butchers was to the right, Senior service to the left..... was this a cleaners? Any more info on this would be great. ByWaters next to that, but what else was there? Also, Can anyone remember Henrys Store in...
    • BrummieJayne
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    • aston hippodrome birchfield rd henrys store senior service
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    • Forum: Shops
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    Litho Artist, Kalamazoo.

    Does anyone know how I could find the Commercial Artists trade union member lists from about 1930 to 1940 for the name Wicks. I know that Leonard Wicks and later Maurice Joseph Wicks were both definately on the lists. Leonard was a Litho Artist in 1930 in Kalamazoo, and I would love to learn...
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    Trades Union lists

    Does anyone know how I could find the Commercial Artists trade union member lists from about 1930 to 1940 for the name Wicks. I know that Leonard Wicks and later Maurice Joseph Wicks were both definately on the lists. Thank you x
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    Can you help me find Leonard Wicks grave, Yardley Wood.

    I have recently found out that my Grandfather may have sadly died in his 40's, we have no record of when or where, but he was living in Northfield in Birmingham in 1950 and a newly discovered cousin of my mums has a recollection of going to Leonards funeral when he was about 15 years old, he...
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    ARP warden Albert 'Bertie' Russell Coventry Cathedral bombing

    My Gramp Bertie Russell (Albert Edward) born in Redditch, lived in Formans rd Sparkhill, was an ARP warden the night coventry cathedral got bombed. Apparantly he returned home saying he was lucky to be alive. Does anyone have any more information of that night, or indeed my lovely Gramps?
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    Wicks Leonard Balsall Heath in 1930

    Leonard Wicks, born in 1907 in Burnley, Lancashire, married my Mums Mum in Balsall Heath in 1930. He worked as a Litho artist in 1930 at Kalamazoo in Birmingham. Does anyone know what his job may have entailed, or and does anyone out there remember Leonard Wicks, or know his family? He married...
    • BrummieJayne
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    • balsall heath kalamazoo leonard wicks
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: U - Z
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