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So is this then correct…Albion Metal: was introduced and patented in 1804, by Thomas Dobbs, ?

Will the real Mr. Dobbs, comedian, please stand up ! Methinks Wikipedia has Thomas and James (not related) mixed up together ...

You may well be right. Doesn't seem likely that a successful entrepreneur was also a music hall entertainer! but then Wiki should always...

From an auction catalogue: A View of Lifford Hall, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the Residence of Mr Dobbs, with a spectacular Captain...

Well they are back at a cost of 2.5 million pounds based at new stables at Tally Ho. Rather odd when a previous W.M chief constable...

The Central Bakery - plaque inset on wall above blue plaque. Mary Cotterell and TASCO's commemorated with a blue plaque on the wall...

This building served as the outpatients department of the Eye Hospital. I was a patient there during the mid 1950's. I tend to recall...

1950s map shows the building as 86 Hubert Road Listed in 1908 directory

Some views of Stirchley Church of the Ascension. Construction was completed in 1901[2] and it was consecrated by the Bishop of Coventry...

See also Stirchley High Street. Perhaps merge? I worked in Stirchley briefly in the early 1970s and what an interesting place it was...

Curious about this. Was this the building [corner of Exeter and Hubert Road] or anyone know what it was originally?

Graces Guide for 1918 gives T. Cadby & Sons at 389/397 Farm Street.

Came across an explore of the old building in 2022 on the "28 days later" site - may be of interest...

Thanks very much for this. There are some other bits of possible evidece: 1) Aris's Birmingham Gazette of Monday 05 August 1816 refers...

James Watt lived in one wing of a large Georgian villa on an estate in Harpers Hill from 1775 to 1790. I've recently come across details...