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HI folks the server that hosts the site completely died including the Hdd's and backups.
Luckily i create an offsite backup once a week! this has now been restored so we have lost a few days posts.
im still fixing things at the moment so bear with me and im still working on all images 90% are fine the others im working on now
we are now using a backup solution
Pete Ex Pat
master brummie
Hi Lyn Thanks once again for the great picks !!!!! Brings a big big lump in my thoat thinking of the days back then ....
Cheers Lyn Keep um coming Pete
Cheers Lyn Keep um coming Pete
hi john would any of your family have used the crown pub in lower tower st in 1956
lyn
thanks judy i think so too ....just waiting for someone to recognise any of the people...things like this make it worth while posting photos...
lyn
hi john have just spent some time looking at a full on pic of the crown and i think you could be right about it not being this pub..the windows are different...i guess it could be the bartons..will go and look at the bartons arms thread to see if we can confirm this for you....i got the pic from the birmingham lives history fair yesterday it was on postcard size and on the back it says its the crown lower tower st which is quite strange as you did live there i believe.. do you know who took the photo
lyn
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Lyn
I agree it does not seem to be the Crown . Below is a photo of it . On the pillar by the door (red rectangle) all the stones go right across the pillar. In the picture in post 107 there is one place where it is divided into two blocks with a line down the middle . The bottom of the window seems to be higher (green rectangle) than in post 107, and there is just two layers of bricks below the window in post 107, whereas in the Crown ( blue rectangle) they go down to the ground.
That said, I think the pillar by the door in 107 is much narrower than that at the Barton Arms
I agree it does not seem to be the Crown . Below is a photo of it . On the pillar by the door (red rectangle) all the stones go right across the pillar. In the picture in post 107 there is one place where it is divided into two blocks with a line down the middle . The bottom of the window seems to be higher (green rectangle) than in post 107, and there is just two layers of bricks below the window in post 107, whereas in the Crown ( blue rectangle) they go down to the ground.
That said, I think the pillar by the door in 107 is much narrower than that at the Barton Arms
and i agree with you mike it does not appear to be the bartons either....if you look at the group photo where the windows end is a run of tiles...the bartons and the crown do not have this...
john was your mom living in lower tower st in 1956 which is the date of the photo??
lyn
john was your mom living in lower tower st in 1956 which is the date of the photo??
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Hi Lyn. The family were living in Lower Tower street in 1958. The photograph was given to me by my cousin. It was found in his mothers effects after she had died. The man sat in the front I believe is Patrick McDonnell. On the reverse it was dated 26/04/1946). In my photograph there is a pram which would have been my other brother who was born feb 1946. which seems to confirm the date. It also says it was taken outside a pub in summer lane.
leonardjob
Great Russell St
My Nan was born at No 4 Court 2 Tower St 1897...Elizabeth Jennings...Married Michael Crowe.
Hello leonardjob I would like to ask if the Michael Crowe your Nan Married was the son of Michael Crowe that lived in 87 New Summer St, if so he would
be my mothers uncle Jane Crowe my mom was born in ward street. Hope you not mind me asking
pommie
Radiorails
master brummie
There are obliterating photo buck banners on pages 2 and three of this thread. Maybe more.
of course i do have them in my files minus the watermark
