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    Amazing Book By William Haywood

    I am not sure if this has been posted before so apologies if it has. While searching the internet I found this amazing book by William Haywood (architect) on his ideas for Birmingham called "The Development of Birmingham". Published 1918. Just click on the page to step through the book page...
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    Childhood Memories Of Trains

    Hello, everybody, Glad to be a new member here. This seems a good place to share my memories childhood trainspotting in Birmingham. Perhaps other "steam fanatics" will add their own recollections of certain places or locos. I grew up in a back-to-back house in Long Street, Sparkbrook, and...
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    Birmingham Air Raids

    It is 75 years ago this month that Birmingham's experience of the blitz started. This was a month ahead of the start of the London blitz. Although for Birmingham September was relatively quiet, things were to greatly intensify during October and November. This month there is a new book called...
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    Frank Wilton Draper 141 Broad Street, Birmingham

    Just found two family members working at the above address as Draper's assistance in the 1891 census. Does anyone have any information about this business or a mention in a trade directory. The two young ladies were Eliza Jane and Amelia Holdcroft.
    • Mart1974
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    • birmingham broad street
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    • Forum: Shops
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    FREE Birmingham TV & Film Walking Tour

    For a fourth year I will be talking a walking tour through the city centre discovering some of the TV & Film locations used around Birmingham in the last 40 years. This year the tours are FREE and you can reserve one of the limited places at https://btvfloc2015.eventbrite.co.uk, however, we are...
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    Thomas Odams: Prodigal Son

    Can anyone help with information about Thomas Odams, the son of Richard Odams: ‘baker, flour dealer’, 72 Wellington Road, Edgbaston (General & Commercial Directory of Birmingham 1858). Thomas migrated to Australia in 1857 on the Algiers. Sadly he committed suicide in South Australia in 1879. I'm...
    • Ian Purcell
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    • baker/confectioner birmingham edgbaston odams wellington road
    • Replies: 73
    • Forum: M - P
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    J, E & H Player, Bingley Works, Birmingham?

    Hello all. I've just acquired a lovely brass ship's foghorn which I'm cleaning up. And as I cleaned it I noticed a maker's stamp: J, E & H Player, Bingley Works, Birmingham. So I googled them. Nothing! Not for J, E & H Player, nor for Bingley Works. I think this is the first time I've googled...
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    Looking for a Monyhull Trainee Nurse (late 1958 - early 1960's)

    I am trying to trace a lady who my family met in the late '50s early '60s in Coventry. She was training to be a nurse at Monyhull Hospital, Birmingham, in her late teens. Her mother worked at the hospital also. Her name is Patricia (Patti) Feeney. I am a little unsure if it was Feeney or...
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    Balsall Common: HOLYHULL, Warwickshire

    Has anyone any ideas, please, as to where this place of HOLYHULL might be? John Smith, Journeyman, Unmarried, 24, Journeyman Locksmith, [where born] Warwicksh, Holyhull Source ancestry.com 1851 Census: Village of Portobello, Willenhall, Staffordshire HO107/2020 I have found a modern place...
    • Lois
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    • birmingham john henry smith weston
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: THEN AND NOW
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    Jet Manufacturing In Birmingham Circa 1863

    I am researching my Harrison links in Birmingham and I would be grateful and interested in any information on the family and its jewelry business, etc: My four-times Great-Grandfather Henry Harrison (1786-1864) was a Jeweller and his eldest sons Henry (1813) and joseph (1815) went into...
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    The Minories - Modern & Old Together

    Went on my travels again today and snapped the Minories near the Old Square. I've blended the old image in with the current view and done half and half to show.
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    Margaret Street - Modern & Old Together

    Popped out again today to take a current shot of Margaret Street, Birmingham. I spotted the sand bagging image from the old photo's thread and hope no one minds me using it? I was going to post this under my Aston Road North thread but was advised to start new ones.
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    Aston Road North - Modern & Old Together

    Hi I'm new to the forum and love old images of Birmingham. I'm a dab hand at Photoshop and wanted to blend the old and modern outside my work (Capgemini) of Aston Road North. I'm also looking for any more images of Avenue Road in Aston as people where i work would be interested in how it...
    • Dave_G
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    • aston aston road north avenue road birmingham
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Old Photographs
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    Great Hampton Works - Great Hampton Row

    I am just in the process of purchasing this property and was wondering if anyone knows anything about the premises or has any family members who know anything about the premises. I am l;ooking for as much information as possible about anything to do with the premises. Thank :biggrin: (Original...
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    A B.C.T. Bus Stop still in Postion

    I have seen a B.C.T. still in position in Severne Rd, https://www.flickr.com/photos/transport_photos/6213806381/in/photostream I now think that this B.C.T. bus stop is between 70. and 80 years old, I wonder how many thare are still in there original place on the streets of Brum, there...
    • horsencart
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    • b.c.t. bus stop birmingham city tranport
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: The Buses
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    A.A. BATTERY - 1940 video newsreel film

    British Pathe has released its archive online. In the archive there is footage of an AA battery somewhere in Birmingham. Looking at the houses in the background it looks like it is in a council - corporation housing estate. The link is https://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=50831 Does...
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    Selly Oak By Pass Railway Bridge

    The time lapse video of the installation last Christmas of the new railway bridge at Selly Oak over the new by pass is now available on the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y4besElv8Y
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    Hawker baptisms 1800-1840 lookup request

    I'd be grateful if anyone with access to parish records for any Aston or Brum church could kindly let me have details of baptisms of Hawkers (surname, not occupation!) between 1800 and 1840, including parents' names please. NO NEED for baptisms at St Martin's as these have already been kindly...
    • paulreid
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    • aston baptism birmingham church hawker
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: E - H
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    A Destination Blind in the Bull Ring Shopping Center

    In one of the shops in the Bull Ring Shopping Center there hans a destination blind https://www.flickr.com/photos/transport_photos/5709436563/ now i think that where they have hung the destination blind was is very close? to where the buse made there way into and out of the city, I think...
    • horsencart
    • Thread
    • birmingham buses destinaion blind digbeth
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: The Buses
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    Did army enlistment take place in Bishopsgate St. B'ham in Dec 1941?

    Hello, Please can anyone tell me where men were enlisted (volunteers or conscripts) in Birmingham in December 1941? My dad (Bernard Charles Ameghino) said he was conscripted in Bishopsgate Street. (I can't ask him for information now - sadly he died in 2001.) He joined the 60th Training...
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