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not sure if this is a new one but worth posting anyway

I remember that, exact item, as a either lamp, or waste pipe, Viv, lived in Weoley Castle, and went passed it every week end, coming...

An unusual and ornate signpost, probably once a lamp too (?) Surprised this survives today at this busy junction (Bristol Road/Oak Tree...

As far as I can tell I think this is down to date rather than place. Use of 77 Dudley Road to avoid the stigma of a "workhouse" birth...

The book "The People of the Abyss" published in 1903 by Jack London gives a description of an estimated half a million contemporary...

Joining this late but just got the Birth Cert in the workhouse as against the Infirmary....my Mother in law born in Infirmary and the...

hi keith that cert says it was a boy who was born or do you mean your mother in law was sarah hill the mother of charles ? lyn

Sorry for a confusing reply...........will try and word it better........ 2 separate things.....the cert says workhouse which means not...

I have posted this somewhere on anothe thread, but perhaps relevant here, indication the attitude to workhouse einmates and perhaps why...

I believe it was called that, after the steel spike, used to separate the naval tarred rope, called "picking Oakum", which was the main...

General slang word for the Workhouse seems to be “the Spike.”

Great idea!

Just spotted this in the Mail https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-gem-generation-partied-risk-31698255

Great pics Mark. I remember Duddeston, certainly changed since the 60's!!

As you can see Aston Signalling Centre aka Vauxhall Shunt Frame is now somewhat dwarfed by the new HS2 viaduct piers:-