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Can anyone decipher this?

Looks like that to me as well. And searching with all the details available from scan - district, subdistrict, enumeration and address - results in Ada & Charles Thomas Butler and William Sullivan.
 
Hello, I am new to this page but would welcome any confirmation about Berners Street where my Grandfathers family, including my mother grew up. They lived at 143 Berners Street and i was taken on a Saturday afternoon to visit him. He passed away in 1954 when I was five.
We went on the Outer Circle bus No 8 and used to go into the back gate. From my and my elder sisters memory the house was NOT at the bottom of the hill ( shown on the photos and last house numbered 155) but from my grandfathers house front, you looked down the hill so 143 appears to have been the other end…? Can anyone through any light on this. My grandfathers brother lived in Clifford Street and my mom went to Lozells Street school.

Many thanks

Kath
 
Kathtap217 said:
Hello, I am new to this page but would welcome any confirmation about Berners Street where my Grandfathers family, including my mother grew up. They lived at 143 Berners Street and i was taken on a Saturday afternoon to visit him. He passed away in 1954 when I was five.
We went on the Outer Circle bus No 8 and used to go into the back gate. From my and my elder sisters memory the house was NOT at the bottom of the hill ( shown on the photos and last house numbered 155) but from my grandfathers house front, you looked down the hill so 143 appears to have been the other end…? Can anyone through any light on this. My grandfathers brother lived in Clifford Street and my mom went to Lozells Street school.

Many thanks

Kath
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Welcome to the forum. Kathtap217

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Kathtap217 said:
Hello, I am new to this page but would welcome any confirmation about Berners Street where my Grandfathers family, including my mother grew up. They lived at 143 Berners Street and i was taken on a Saturday afternoon to visit him. He passed away in 1954 when I was five.
We went on the Outer Circle bus No 8 and used to go into the back gate. From my and my elder sisters memory the house was NOT at the bottom of the hill ( shown on the photos and last house numbered 155) but from my grandfathers house front, you looked down the hill so 143 appears to have been the other end…? Can anyone through any light on this. My grandfathers brother lived in Clifford Street and my mom went to Lozells Street school.

Many thanks

Kath
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First of all - welcome, as Pete said.
Can you confrm your grandfather was Frank Hill?
 
Map now posted for you by Brummy-lad

Berners Street, Lozells

uncle albert... you know when you were looking at the photos earlier of the lozells area well did you notice this one taken at the bottom end of berners st..you can clearly see a bit of the park and the railings surrounding it... lyn I lived in 38 which was opposite the park. 1955 to1957
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I have posted a map showing No. 143 on the Berners Street Lozells thread.

Berners Street, Lozells

uncle albert... you know when you were looking at the photos earlier of the lozells area well did you notice this one taken at the bottom end of berners st..you can clearly see a bit of the park and the railings surrounding it... lyn I lived in 38 which was opposite the park. 1955 to1957
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Thank you so much. Can I assume that the bottom half of Berners Street no longer exists. I drove over there this morning and couldn’t work out how I remembered the street being downhill but your map makes perfect sense, thanks again
 
Kathtap217 said:
Thank you so much. Can I assume that the bottom half of Berners Street no longer exists. I drove over there this morning and couldn’t work out how I remembered the street being downhill but your map makes perfect sense, thanks again
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yes kath that part of berners st went a long time ago

lyn
 
adding to janices post kath...click on the link below for todays street view which you would have seen today...the building on the left used to be the union pub so at a rough guess i think the house would have been near to the clump of trees on the right

lyn

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Thanks so many of you for your rapid responses and knowledge. Yes, grandad was Frank and there were six children.
 
I think the bus must have gone along Gerrard Street, Mom sometimes took grandad a bottle of beer from an outdoor? The gunmakers Arms was closed today. looks as if it’s been closed for a while.
 
hi kath did you see my todays street view on post 16...the nearest pub was the union also shown on brummy lads map..the gunmakers just a little further up...sadly both closed for some years now and yes the no 8 went down gerrard st...i used to attend lozells girls school also shown on the map..

lyn
 
Yes, thank you I did see it and hoped I had thanked everyone, but I replied to John on another map he posted elsewhere. I am still a bit confused re replies apart from here. I must admit I was so excited to hear from anyone, even though I had read all the Berners Street posts. I am researching my family tree and have got a bit carried away this afternoon, hence delayed reply.

Thank you everyone probably have more questions at some point,
 
I have been able to cement my memory of the route to my grandfathers after looking at the map posted it all makes sense. Thank you all for your help
 
we are always happy to help kath and i guess that as we are first and foremost a history forum it could go a long way to explaining why we have been going since 2002 and run purely on donations made by our members....keep on posting:) oh i nearly forgot to ask you if you have been on the berners street lozells thread as there are 2 cracking photos taken of your grandads part of the st before fully being demolished

lyn
 
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we are always happy to help kath and i guess that as we are first and foremost a history forum it could go a long way to explaining why we have been going since 2002 and run purely on donations made by our members....keep on posting:) oh i nearly forgot to ask you if you have been on the berners street lozells thread as there are 2 cracking photos taken of your grandads part of the st before fully being demolished

lyn
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Thank you lyn, no I haven’t seen the photos yet. This is where I am a bit confused, difference between threads and these messages
 
Kathtap217 said:
Thank you lyn, no I haven’t seen the photos yet. This is where I am a bit confused, difference between threads and these messages
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kath i noticed that you have made a post on the berners st lozells thread..it is always best to start reading a thread from post 1 that way you wont miss anything....click on the link below to take you to it...its quite a long thread but eventually you will come to the photos i have mentioned which are in colour...you will be able to see from them just how steep that part of berners st was....

Berners Street, Lozells

I've just found a new relative on the 1891 census living at 12 Court 6 House Berners St, Lozells (joins Lozells Rd). I can see it on myBartholomew's But wondered if anyone could pinpoint (or close!) this house. Thanks in advance.
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