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    brummy-lad reacted to Caggwag's post in the thread Gower Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This is RJR transport that my great great grandparents Richard John Richardson and penninah (Pennie) brought back in the early 1900s and...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Rea Street.
    A few discrepancies on the census so checked a few others. Court 11 was between Nos. 47 and 48 so No. 46 as marked. Were you aware that...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Rea Street.
    Here is a link to the 1950s map showing house numbers, the house numbers still appear to be consecutive (rather than odds and evens) but...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Baldeagle's post in the thread Radar Motors Cowper Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    My name is John Haines and my father Bill Haines was the owner of ~Radwar Motors Ltd. Initially, they were Birmingham's first Citroen...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Smallbrook Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Once the home to the Rectory, a theatre (for only a few years) and cock fighting. Source: British Newspaper Archive
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    brummy-lad reacted to Roboz_8's post in the thread Mornington Smethwick with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I think you're right about the alleys for accessing communal wash-houses and toilets. I wonder if they managed to grow food in the front...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread St Paul's Square Hockley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Looks like the damage was near here off Mary Ann Street, behind the white van, and not far from Vaughtons building on Livery Street...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread The Evered and Company Ltd. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    August 1832, Fatal accident Richard Evered.
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    brummy-lad reacted to superdad3's post in the thread The Evered and Company Ltd. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Richard Evered started the business in 1809 in Charles Street, near Drury Lane in London. In 1860 the firm moved to the Barnet Works...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Richard Parkes bargee.
    No problem.
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread St Paul's Square Hockley.
    An aerial view from 1948, several buildings behind the steeple without a roof, presumably the result of bomb damage.
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    brummy-lad reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread St Paul's Square Hockley with Appreciate Appreciate.
    St Paul's area might almost once have been the Belgravia of Birmingham. It's church when first built, stood in the middle of fields...
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    brummy-lad reacted to Pedro42's post in the thread Richard Parkes bargee with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This has probably been posted before but it's a good insight into Birmingham's boat people. You will need to download the .pdf file Peter
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Richard Parkes bargee.
    Hi Mike, tuisitala's opening message is missing from this thread and it therefore appears that the thread was started by me. If you...
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    brummy-lad reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Richard Parkes bargee with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Some general info here https://historywm.com/articles/canalboat-people-lives-on-the-waterways-of-birmingham
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