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Hopefully this links to an old map overlaying a modern one. Change transparency (bottom left) to compare...

No, that would have actually have been 81 New Town Row by Manchester Street. 81 High St would have been on the opposite side, out of...

Don't forget in post#37 there is a photo of 81 High Street

Interesting, thank you. Anyway to find out what it was called?. I remember reading that Tony iommis grandparents ice cream shop was...

Perhaps Giuseppe the artist went back to Italy? In 1940 directory 81 Hight Street is listed as Iommi G & L Confectioners. 1960 phone...

Maria Iommi (the wife of Nicola) is listed in the 1939 trade directory as running Coffee Rooms at 169 Booth St.

A later view of Potter Street and the Weights & Measures Offices .... dated as 1932.

Here is a view of Potter Street in 1905. I would suggest that the buildings on th eleft are the ones in red on the 1886 map below

Another photo of the Malt Shovel Inn .... dated c1867.

Another drawn view of the Malt Shovel of the same age as that on post 19., together with an actual photograph, showing that the drawn...

My Wifes tree has an Italian link from Newcastle Under Lyme. I think they were coal miners there but the one man who married wifes...

No worries, it all adds to the topic. And it looks as if those Verrecchias at least came from a town in the same province (Frosinone) -...

On the 1911 census there is a Mary Veraca (Verrecchia) listed as an ice cream vendor. She's born in Italy but not listed as Sora, which...

With regards to MWS post no 6 and ice cream manufacturers I noticed one name missing from that list and that was Verraccia as a kid and...

Thanks, still a lovely piece of music.