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    Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook

    The 1939 Register does have an entry for number 1 but it's blank and there is a V next to the number, vacant?
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    Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook

    Interesting. Thanks. So they did survive the war only to be swept away in a post war redevelopment - modern maps show number 25 as being the lowest numbered Victorian house left. I wonder if they were standing but bomb damaged and ready for the wrecking ball anyway?
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    Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook

    Thanks but that's not Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook.
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    Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook

    I'm interested in knowing when Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook was bombed during the Second World War. I've come across a photo on nos 9 & 11 which was produced by a jobbing photographer from Cardiff who sold 5 prints to the householder sometime in the 1920s. I know the early numbers in the street...
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