Recent content by Helen S

This is well worth exploring - I do appreciate all of these suggestions

The link to the Scott estate is fascinating! You have all been marvellous and given me so much to look into! I will keep you updated with what I find!

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Great suggestion, I hadn't but I will now - thank you

Some new names here - thank you!

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Ah yes - that is very much what the building looks like with the addition of some Peaky Blinders graffiti!

I believe Hildick was a toymaker from Aston St that then moved out to a farm in Lapworth and John Bott was a mortgage lender who left the property to his sister's but in the hands of their husbands.

Oooh where did you find that quote? That's fab! Yes, it looks like the property was an investment property for the owners.

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Are these from the Kelly's Directory? This is incredibly helpful - thank you so much,

We have some records that came with the purchase which I followed up with some archival and online research

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Fab - thank you! There seems to be some chaos around the numbers - I'm trying to understand if property numbers may have changed or whether the building was more smaller buildings that we have come to understand. I have found John Pitt, a corn dealer at 121 in the 1871 census. These building...

These are great - thank you!