its no trouble...cant say yet exactly when i will get to the library but hopefully it wont be too long..i have a few things i need to look up myself but i have noted the details of your snippet and will be in touch asapThank you Lyn, that is very kind of you. Very much appreciated.
Hello there,Just noticed a newspaper notice of the diamond wedding anniversary of my great grandparents (Simmonds of Vauxhall Road) in the Birmingham Daily Gazette 28 Aug 1933.
If someone could post a copy of the notice it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Hello there,Thank you, pictures as well! Very much appreciated.
I like how they called him formerly a groom, which he probably was in the 1870s but a gas stoker/labourer for 60 years afterwards.
And eventually there were at least 120 great grandchildren.
There were some pictures here, but the links no longer work, Mike Jee may be of help if he sees this.I wonder if anyone remembers or has a picture of the Vauxhall working boys home from 1940ish
these are brilliant thank youThe links refer to Vauxhall House, at 205 Vauxhall road which is described as a working boys home. Here are three I have of that building
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According to the 1950s map, the house on the corner was no 23, and in the 1950s was the presbytery to the St Vincent de Paul church. Probably not the same building. In 1884 it was Grove House, occupied by Edwin Thomas Griffiths, surgeon. Some of the other houses were occupied by a photographer, a printer, and commision agent and a potato salesman. Griffiths was a councillor and magistrateWhilst looking at something else the houses on Vauxhall Grove from 1889 caught my eye. They look much larger than those on surrounding roads (especially the one on the corner) and a little out of place. Does anyone know anything about them? Thanks.
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