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Can anyone identify this Birmingham house, please?
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brummy-lad
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Hi MGray,
Given the quality of this property (gorgeous picture by the way) I would think it is still around today. On that basis I have checked the census records for "Rosedale" (in the areas you mentioned) and have then gone onto google street view to check. No luck so far I'm afraid.
Given the quality of this property (gorgeous picture by the way) I would think it is still around today. On that basis I have checked the census records for "Rosedale" (in the areas you mentioned) and have then gone onto google street view to check. No luck so far I'm afraid.
Searched newspapers. Here’s a “Rosedale” in Penns Lane Erdington - date 5/12/1923 from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph. May be a complete red herring, but worth considering .... Viv
Yes: I believe the people are ancestors on my maternal side.
My best hunch is George Lingard. He's in Moseley Road Kings Norton on the 1871 and 1881 Census.
c1832
That's very odd, if true. I can see no reason for it, however. After all, the relative who has digitised it from a family photo album that is at least 100 years old, is as curious as I am to learn the identity of the building (and by extension its people).
brummy-lad
master brummie
Perhaps they were using PaintShop Pro and over-sharpened that section to try and read it, I've done that myself before now.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
A beautiful house, can't imagine anyone would want to demolish it...…………...but there are a lot of Philistines about.
Yes, a common name, but if it was indeed on the Moseley Road, there's a chance it's still standing and that someone on here might have thought they knew it. I don't assume it still has that gate of course, or the name. And I agree that it would be better if we could see the writing on the wall panel, but we can't... It looks as if perhaps we've hit a dead end here, but in any case I'd like to thank you all. I have other queries but I'll resist asking them straight away. Again, thanks to everyone who has responded.
bewdley
master brummie
I googled Rosedale, Moseley Road and this came up -1984-1985: Derek Montague Percy Lea, JP, FRICS, of Rosedale, Moseley. I don't know the area, but I thought it might jog someone's memory. Perhaps the house became an an Estate Agents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_the_West_Midlands
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Radiorails
master brummie
Interesting house numbers Lyn. 273 and 327 are the same numbers but in a different order.
thanks bewdley...yes mrs lingard was a school mistress and on the 81 census has 6 young female scholars living in..had a quick street walk and i dont think 327 is there now
lyn
George Lingard Jnr was at 273 Moseley Rd according to Berrows Worcester Journal 26/2/1876. He had Eliza Ann Lingard living at the same address. George Lingard (his father perhaps ?) was also at that address and was listed as a coffin manufacturer.
Viv.
Viv.
Yes, but I find that suspicious: isn't it more likely that one of them is a mistranscription of the same digits - 273, 237...?
Thank you - Yes, I have that info, thanks, but I was hoping someone would link that address with the house name Rosedale, or just recognise the house as still existing.
Thank you! Now that IS new to me: I'm most grateful. But that suggests that no.327 was Moscow House, a rather less romantic name than Rosedale...
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