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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    The further you go back the greater the likelihood of that being the case, especially in the poorer parts of cities and towns. People...
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    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    well i was born and raised around there suzanne and i dont recognise the area now..so many changes...just had another look at that map i...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Bartons Arms is about the only building still remaining. Roads have changed, High St has been widened and the row of buildings...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Hopefully this links to an old map overlaying a modern one. Change transparency (bottom left) to compare...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    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...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Don't forget in post#37 there is a photo of 81 High Street
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    MWS reacted to Suzanneiom's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Interesting, thank you. Anyway to find out what it was called?. I remember reading that Tony iommis grandparents ice cream shop was...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Perhaps Giuseppe the artist went back to Italy? In 1940 directory 81 Hight Street is listed as Iommi G & L Confectioners. 1960 phone...
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    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Maria Iommi (the wife of Nicola) is listed in the 1939 trade directory as running Coffee Rooms at 169 Booth St.
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    MWS reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Potter Street, Aston, C1900 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A later view of Potter Street and the Weights & Measures Offices .... dated as 1932.
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    MWS reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Potter Street, Aston, C1900 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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
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    MWS reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Smallbrook Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Another photo of the Malt Shovel Inn .... dated c1867.
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    MWS reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Smallbrook Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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...
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    MWS reacted to Keith R's post in the thread Italians in Birmingham with Appreciate Appreciate.
    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...
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    MWS replied to the thread Italians in Birmingham.
    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) -...
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