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Recent content by Jatomlie

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    Old street pics..

    The photo of the ladies in Granville street after winning their campaign to be rehoused. Is there any way to find out which yard they were in , as l feel sure it was my yard but would like this confirmed if possible. cheers Jatomlie
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    Didn't know George moved back to Birmingham, because mom and l visited him in hospital in Talford where he was very ill, l presumed he had passed away then,when did Edith pass away..Goodness me how old was Floss when she passed away. Yes Len lived in Ward End with May .
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    Don't know a lot , l can remember mum taking taking me to visit auntie May ( Isabella ) who lived in a beautiful house in Mosley with her second husband. Rupert her first husband had passed away, then she lost her second husband , after that auntie May became ill and went into Rubery hospital, l...
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    Old street pics..

    Thanks , that's interesting...
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    May in the photo is Lily's sister, not May who was Len's second wife.
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    Hi Thomas, mom's children..... I'm Albert ,John died some years ago, Les passed away 4 years ago a great loss to us as we were very close, my lovely youngest sister Lillian died when she was only 52, So myself Margaret and my older bother Alfie are still around. We have just come back from a...
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    Hi Thomas, my mom was born in Benacre street in 1906 27th July, she married in 1926, lived in Duke street for a short time before moving to Granville street next door to our grand patents Isabella and George. Mom went on to have 10 children only 6 of us survived 4 boys and two girls. I'm not on...
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    Old street pics..

    Hi can you tell me if this yard is back of 39 Granville st
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    I can remember my mother taking me to see uncle Billy and auntie floss , they used to keep chickens in their little garden in williams street. Uncle Billy worked on the market. Mom was closest to uncle Leonard who we visited often and his second wife May. When George died Isabella went to live...
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    Old street pics..

    Thanks for the photo can you tell me the address of the yard in Granville st is address number 3 or4 back of 39
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    Granville Street Ladywood

    Hi Thomas, Isabella and George were my grandparents we lived at numbet 4 back of 39 and they lived next door to us. My mother was Lillian Parry she had four bothers and one sister. My mobile 07400235218 which of my mothers bothers are you a desendent of.
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