Recent content by robind

mikejee having just completed my map comparisons, I now reckon that the Alexandra Place (and 13-19 Woodbridge Rd) was actually where the current 21a Woodbridge Road and Moseley Police Station/garden area are. That is, a little to the east of the autocentre - which occupies the old 3, 5 and 7...

Mikejee many thanks. That would probably explain why when I googled the address, a link came up with the Moseley Autocentre - but no direct connection to the former Alexandra Place courtyard address:

Lyn That's brilliant - and thanks. All I could get was the 1938 OS 1:2500 - which doesn't label it. Woodbridge Road is short enough to be readily searchable! Thanks for confirming again.

At a tangent from this, does anyone know where "Alexandra Place, Woodbridge Road" in Moseley is or was? One of my great uncle/aunts apparently lived there when they were married in 1940 and I can't see anything on present or even contemporary 1900s maps (Old Maps): Robin D

Indeed - and I walked right past it without realizing at that time!

Lyn absolutely - and many thanks. I shall search the Directories in due course. I did wonder at the title of 'nursing home' and as Mike said, it was probably a generic/private nursing home which offered maternity care.

With a serious reason to search, I have finally located my dad's birth certificate - which I should have done before my recent visit to Birmingham. It confirms all your suggestions that No. 79 was indeed the location of his birth! Many thanks for the further information from the census and...

Mikejee: where are the Kellys Directories readily available on the internet?

I think you are correct studying the map and the StreetView. Many thanks

Thank you everyone. I had a thought last night and am trying to locate his birth certificate now to see if it has anything more than School Road Nursing Home. On past experience of BMD certificates, they do tend to have addresses rather than names of buildings. Will let you know what I can find...

My father was born at the 'School Road Nursing Home' Moseley in 1921. I am wondering if the building still exists - the stand out one to me architecturally from at least around the 1920s is 119 - currently the St George's Medical Centre/Surgery. Larger scale OS maps from around that year seem to...

Thanks for the link Godber. To be honest, when I first started looking at my photographs, maps and aerial views behind W/Moor, I did wonder why it hadn't been built up. Hope you can get some pictures, possibly winter time when the vegetation will be at its least, before it disappears.

That would be good. I wasn't sure I would get any access at all to that area as there is a formidable fence parallel with the path up through Dawberry Fields from the Allenscroft Primary School. But there is a break higher up - a wooden overlap fence/gateway that allows access but where there...

Done that now Lyn - thanks: can see and read the names as you say Godber I think that you are correct - perhaps only relatives searching family history will care. fortunately, none of my families were casualties in those grim years. My mum was 17 in 1941 and to have bombs exploding barely 350...

Lyn I wish that I had known about that during my recent visit. I was staying in Aston for a conference at the Exchange and Radisson Hilton. What a beautiful monument and an excellent tribute. I am sure that you can be proud of it for your own personal attachments. I can't see it that clearly but...