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    Congreve Street 1880s and 1890s

    The book is now out - we couldn't find a suitable location photo so in the end the cover used photos of the people rather than the place. https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Was-Young-Memoir-Wimbush/dp/1912419645
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    Wimbush Factory Little Green Lane.

    Those interested in Birmingham history may like the publication recently out, available on Amazon, 'When I Was Young' by Norman Wimbush. Norman wrote it in the 1940s but it describes his childhood in Birmingham from birth in 1880 until about 1905. His parents ran a small café in central...
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    Nettlefolds Limited

    Norman Wimbush worked as a clerk at Nettlefolds for six years in the 1890s. He wrote a memoir including a chapter describing his time there. It will be published soon. If anyone would like more details of what he wrote about Nettlefolds let me know.
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    Congreve Street 1880s and 1890s

    Thank you very much - this is extremely helpful. The picture could be suitable though it doesn't go up to 22 and a half. There may have been a confectioners on the site in 1870, though the family didn't move there from Bell Barn Road until about 1889, and going by the memoir it was never...
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    Congreve Street 1880s and 1890s

    Does anyone have a photo of Congreve Street from the 1880s or 1890s? We are planning publication of a memoir and the writer was a boy living at No 22 and a half Congreve Street during these years. According to the memoir the building, a confectioners and small cafe run by the boy's parents, was...
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