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    MWS reacted to mikejee's post in the thread IRISH RECORDS ONLINE with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Possibly they were held with the 1931 UK census
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    MWS replied to the thread IRISH RECORDS ONLINE.
    Not sure if it's been mentioned before but the 1926 Irish census is now available. Unfortunately this does not include Northern Island...
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    MWS reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Beasley Blythe Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Aerial views from 1935 & 1948.
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    MWS reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I completely agree that there were old people, i spend quite a lot of time in cemetery's and am always amazed to see the grave marker of...
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    MWS replied to the thread Beasley Blythe Street.
    I would have said the first photo shows the correct side the street and no. 59 was the first house that appears to have a single window...
    • Ladywood Blythe St 1956.jpg
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    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Beasley Blythe Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    thanks mark so just a little more than half way up the street..normally i would find the map myself but i am having a problem at the min...
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    MWS replied to the thread Beasley Blythe Street.
    From 1954...
    • 0 - Blythe St.jpg
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    MWS replied to the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938.
    With a high infant mortality rate lowering the life expectancy figure it tends to give the impression that there were very few old...
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    MWS reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    You are calculating the average for people who survived to age 5. But life expectancy includes everyone. If you are on a lifeboat with...
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    MWS reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread Then & Now with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Wheeley’s Lane and 2 Bank Middleway 2008-2025, not much difference in 17 years.
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    MWS replied to the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938.
    Assuming that average of the children who didn't reach the age of 5 was 2.5 then the life expectancy of everyone else was a touch over 60.
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    MWS reacted to Keith R's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An obvious observation is that when the NHS came along average life expectancy would have shot up.......so many dying in infancy earlier...
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    MWS reacted to Morturn's post in the thread Birmingham 1838 - 1938 with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The average life expectancy would have been around 47 years. Almost one third ( 228.8 per thousand) of children did not reach the age of...
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    MWS replied to the thread Jogesh Chandra Bose.
    You would think that the place he studied in Baltimore would have records. What they would contain and when (if ever) they might be...
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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Jogesh Chandra Bose with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The trees I looked at don't seem to go back beyond Jogesh and Florence
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