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It's bang opposite Lyn! Like you say....getting closer...!great map mike as i thought 105 and 107 is opposite lynns 3/100 can clearly see no 3 marked out lynn
It's bang opposite Lyn! Like you say....getting closer...!great map mike as i thought 105 and 107 is opposite lynns 3/100 can clearly see no 3 marked out lynn
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yes lynn that photo is a view you must have seen many time...they are out there somewhere..have to say i did not realise that mary st was so long..It's bang opposite Lyn! Like you say....getting closer...!
remember the shops in #14 i got my chomp from there for my dinner.when we worked for kids in need appeal at xmas time in a rented office that was falling down.couple of new ones i think...courtesty of carl chinn..View attachment 153673View attachment 153674View attachment 153675View attachment 153676 photo 1 mary st with george st..photo 2 bath tavern photo 3 eagle tavern photo 4 numbers 99 to 109 dated 1961..now who is that little girl sitting on the step and the boy playing in the road
Mrbluesky, sometimes boundaries were a bit different then. A place I lived as a child was Gordon Street, always known as Bordesley Green but on some records it's classed as Aston.Brilliant photos, and maps, Thank you all, my gt nan lived next door to the Eagle, can just see it. Care home now, my dad was born in Balsall Heath Road 1925. He always told me he was from Small Heath. He was when he was abt 6 yrs old, Arthur Street back to back. So was a another shock when I started ancestry. Yet on his birth cert his mom was in Franklin Terrace, think that was near Edward Street? Mus have been at a relatives or friends. thanks again you folk, appreciated.
I've only got access to an iPad at the moment but isn't No. 111 The Bath Tavern shown on the map in post #19 ?I have details of a death certificate for Bethia Oldham who died at 111 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, in 1877 so the photos and the map are of special interest to me, so thank you everyone. I have not found the number yet on the map, I am wondering if it may be up the passage that appears in the area thereabouts. Bethia was the wife of William Oldham of Oldham and Cooper, photographers at New Street, Birmingham. It is difficult to plot his movements but he seems to have moved to Mary Street as his residence and carried on some photography there whilst retaining the New Street premises. It is a huge disappointment to me that there has never been discovered any glass negative plates from his business nor any identifiable photos of his family. I wonder if a huge hoard of plates were found when the buildings were demolished! Thanks again to the remarkable Birmingham History forum buffs!
This shows a William Oldham at Upper Mary St in 1867I have details of a death certificate for Bethia Oldham who died at 111 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, in 1877 so the photos and the map are of special interest to me, so thank you everyone. I have not found the number yet on the map, I am wondering if it may be up the passage that appears in the area thereabouts. Bethia was the wife of William Oldham of Oldham and Cooper, photographers at New Street, Birmingham. It is difficult to plot his movements but he seems to have moved to Mary Street as his residence and carried on some photography there whilst retaining the New Street premises. It is a huge disappointment to me that there has never been discovered any glass negative plates from his business nor any identifiable photos of his family. I wonder if a huge hoard of plates were found when the buildings were demolished! Thanks again to the remarkable Birmingham History forum buffs!