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This is a view of the Lifford Station which was served by the West Suburban Railway and later was beside the goods branch to the...

In this view the view point was from a car park that gave an 1980's overhead perspective On this occasion the Station was at it could be...

I just found this note on the eBay listing so I think you are right Lyn, I won't be looking any further. AI strikes again.

Perhaps the photographer was actually standing in Guidford Street and this was a side lane. Having said that looking at the 1889 map I...

I'm sitting on the fence at the moment there were some quality properties around the top end of Guildford Street in the late 1800s, e.g...

The photo attached shows, what I think, is the only area of Guildford Street where this property could have been. The lintel above the...

Some better maps of Parliament Street.

The former Brighton Road Post Office building still exists, but little else in the foreground has survived in this postcard view.

Possible cousins... Leslie - 4 sons and 2 daughters Florence - a son and a daughter Olive - possibly 3 sons Doreen - 2 sons John -...

It appears that... John Onions was born 1885 in Oldbury, son of John Onions and Emily Bridge. Marriage to Harriet Rosalie (Rose)...

A view of another passageway attached to the Town Hall, here described as a 'Street Under Birmingham Town Hall'.

Thanks Lyn, I hadn't realised that the street had been blocked at one end (as shown in your link), it actually is marked as such on the...

It looks as though they were always separate streets, certainly on the map of 1892-1914

Aerial view and maps.

below link provides a photo dated 1956...