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I certainly seem to have taken a wrong step with your Lambe ancestors, so those houses have no relevance. A fairly unusual name, a...

Tracking Irish relatives can be tricky, there just aren't as many records available. Making the jump from English born descendants to...

A little bit of a guess (from your maternal side, Lambe?) ignore if wrong, but here are a couple of houses still standing (neither...

sadly suzanne this is the problem most of us have...a reason why i have spent the past 15 years finding and posting thousands of old...

The further you go back the greater the likelihood of that being the case, especially in the poorer parts of cities and towns. People...

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...

Bartons Arms is about the only building still remaining. Roads have changed, High St has been widened and the row of buildings...

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