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Mary Street Balsall Heath

edcartermo said:
I have details of a death certificate for Bethia Oldham who died at 111 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, in 1877 so the photos and the map are of special interest to me, so thank you everyone. I have not found the number yet on the map, I am wondering if it may be up the passage that appears in the area thereabouts. Bethia was the wife of William Oldham of Oldham and Cooper, photographers at New Street, Birmingham. It is difficult to plot his movements but he seems to have moved to Mary Street as his residence and carried on some photography there whilst retaining the New Street premises. It is a huge disappointment to me that there has never been discovered any glass negative plates from his business nor any identifiable photos of his family. I wonder if a huge hoard of plates were found when the buildings were demolished! Thanks again to the remarkable Birmingham History forum buffs!
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This shows a William Oldham at Upper Mary St in 1867

william oldham 1867.PNG
 
When Upper Mary St was combined with Mary St , the numbering was altered also from consecutive to odd one side, even numbers the other. From the directories of 1892 and 1895, either side of the change, many of the occupants names are the same In particular; 1892 1895
110 Hirst 256 Hirst
111 - 254 Haynes
112 - 252 --
113Hudson 250 Hudson
(Sorry they haven't formatted very well)
From this I think it can be deduced that 111 was later no 254. Below are maps c1954 and c1889 showing the building

map c1954 showing 254 Mary St.jpgmap c1889 showing 111 upper Mary St.jpg
 
Hello all, hope you are keeping well.

Does anyone please have any images and/or maps of Upper Mary Street, please? Would also love to hear from those who also lived in or around Mary Street.

Thanks!
 
Hi Aaron welcome to the forum, have you tried using the search button and entering "upper mary" ? there seems to be quite a few posts.
 
evening all, the council installed buttresses for the council improvement initiative during the 1980's, would anyone happen to have any info on this?
 
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