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That line might be a brick wall then unfortunately, unless family knowledge can she light on things. That wrong birthplace (if it is...

1921 census is on Ancestry. The 1914 marriage cert for Alexandra gives her Father as John Perca (deceased).

There doesn't appear to be birth reg. for her under her name or anything similar and she seems to be the only person with the surname...

Assuming I've got the right people. I have your nan was Violet Miles and she was very young (just 16?) when she married your grandad...

A bit of a random question. Where did your dad's maternal grandmother come from? Was she Italian as well?

My mum was a GI bride. She grew up in Acocks Green and met my dad (a Chicago native stationed nearby) at the Dolphin pub, at the bottom...

Just looking at this map shows Exeter place, back in the early 1960's this was what could only be decribed as a real slum. I worked in...

Answered on the Anderton Street thread.

That part of Anderton Road was on the west side of King Edward's Road and has all gone (as has part of King Edward's Road) replaced by...

Here's a map (1954) of Exteter Place, on Anderton Road....

Postcard - Loeless Road, Glebe Farm, Birmingham, 1957. All those hedges gone !

It may be that when the map was made there was a stone but it has since disappeared unfortunately. If you are sure of your location...

Probate listing

The building marked below is listed as no. 214 on the 1954 map so assuming the numbers hadn't changed then this is it from 1889, almost...

This is from the Warwickshire Herald July 1891...