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I keep comparing it to the picture but unless there had been some alterations I can't make it match. :(

1887 map

On the subject of Mason College, in the Bham Daily Post 25 Sep 1889 there article that mentions 'the department being placed in...

As mentioned previously Elizabeth Smith's mother married a James Luker after she was born. Herbert, Louise and also an Edith & Edward...

Kershaw is with Thomas and family on Pershore Road in 1861, though it appears that his death was reg. back in Yorkshire in 1867.

Not relevant but Sarah is Thomas's second wife. Both marriages are listed on Ancestry. Father's name Kershaw so definitey the same Thomas.

Could be but OP did say that it says on the photo 'Rednal' home of Emma Holroyd. I can't see connection between the Holroyd family and...

Well that directory would appear to rule out Norfolk Road, though the house on the photo has a vague similarity with the map.

1879 directory

There appear to be two families that are on both the 1871 & 1881 census - Yates and Low/Lowe. I think in 1871 the Yates family are...

This is the page Previous page also has no house names.

I couldn't see the road in 1871. In 1861 they're on Pershore Road. From the old maps and looking at the picture I would guess that...

I think I found the same family living on Norfolk Road in 1871 with parents Thomas and Sarah. Again no name to the house.

I see on the 1881 census the Emma's widowed step mother (if I have the correct family) is living on York Road, Edgbaston and the family...

As mentioned previously Herbert and Louise's mother was an Elizabeth Luker (b Smith) whom Eugene married in 1877. She died in 1884, reg...