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Excellent, I've been looking for a copy of that, and now have one on order. Thanks for the tip off! I'm doing a one name study of sorts on the Birmingham Alldays, who mostly relate either to my family, or to the Allday bellows-making family, who went on to co-found Alldays & Onions. I can trace...

Despite not being a local, my first experience of a proper stadium-scale gig was in Birmingham. My dad took me to see Page & Plant at the NEC. They'd recently released No Quarter, and did a mix of songs from that and the old Led Zeppelin standards, ably supported by a chap from the Cure and...

No worries. I figured "William Homer" was unusual enough to get a hit on its own, and so it proved. I'm not local to Birmingham myself, but my best mate is from Kidderminster as it happens. I think he would feel an affinity for Birmingham, but not consider himself a Brummie as such. It's a...

Found it, I think - mistranscribed as William Homer Hyson, quarter 2, 1879, Kidderminster, vol 6c, p. 268

The multi-occupancy "buildings" addresses at that end of Dudley Road are, if I've read the handwriting correctly: Sandall's Buildings and Faraday's Buildings in 1851 Fordries Building (s) in 1861 I guess Faraday/ Fordrie could be different transcriptions of the same name

It's at pretty much the same spot on Dudley Road if my interpretation of the 1851/1861 census sections upthread is correct

Scrolling up and down the street on the two censuses, Job Tay's residence appears looks to be in a similar location in both 1851 and 1861, is given as No 7 in 1861. As the numbers increase, we get the Cape Lane, then Winson Street, then Spring Hill, which gives the impression of the census taker...

I looked up butchers on High Street in Pigot's 1828-9 directory. Most are at street numbers in the 30s and 50s, but there's Charles Tutin's at number 98, which seems roughly the right part of the street.

I can't help with origins, but I found a 1953 article on memories of Digbeth that recalls: (From the Evening Dispatch, August 22, 1953) My family were cattle dealers and butchers,with a shop at 91 Digbeth from the late 1700s to the 1850s, so could conceivably have been suppliers of Assinder's...

My great-grandfather was in Nigeria for a time back in the early 1900s. I have very few records of his time there, but checking the same sources for Hunt family references, I have: - John Hayward Hunt, initiated into the Zungery Freemasons lodge of Northern Nigera in 1911 (possibly died 1915) -...

There was an Aubrey William Hunt of the right age who served in the in the Nigeria Regiment Artillery (Field Telegraph Section) in 1915. They were involved in the capture of the neighbouring German colony in what's now Cameroon.

Not specifically Birmingham related, but I'm finding David Olusoga's new series on the unification of the UK very interesting and well crafted. Currently running on BBC2, but (all?) four episodes up on iPlayer.

... continued. (Unexpected?) Consequences of the Reform Act The Reform Act 1832 was passed in June of that year, driven through by Earl Grey’s Whigs, but only possible with the agitation of the Political Unions and the bitter split within Wellington’s Tories over the Catholic Emancipation Act...

One reason I find the Allday branch of my family particularly interesting to research is that they were well-documented (and opinionated) enough to offer glimpses of how the some of the momentous Regency-era political events they lived through impacted the lives of Birmingham folk like them and...

John Towers Lawrence (1786-1871) was another interesting character of 19th century Birmingham involved in the Reform movement. On further research I think he is actually not the same person as Political Council member John Lawrence, as both their names appear together in earlier correspondence...

Now that I have a little more time to respond: That's an excellent suggestion, thank you. I remembered that I had a copy of their Birmingham MIs CD knocking about, which I've just been perusing. I didn't find any more on the Alldays at Warstone Lane, but I did find an obituary that gave me a...

Since I have my research on Joseph Allday and Winson Green open, here's an extract from the memoirs of prison warder William Brown, recounting his acquaintance with Joseph: ... as published in the Dundee Evening Telegraph, Saturday 07 December 1895. Original image hosted on the British...

William Brown (1826-1903) was a warden at Winson Green prison for some 43 years. He distinguished himself as one of the few humane staff members who tried to oppose and mitigate the atrocities committed under Governer Austin's regime between 1851 and 1853. As noted by Wendy earier in the thread...

Hello, and thanks for the info on the Warstone Lane open day. I can't make it today sadly, but I shall certainly pay it another visit at some point. The Argus was a Birmingham paper / magazine edited by my relative Joseph Allday, launched in 1828. It started out as a miscellany of theatre...

Eric Maschwitz sounds a quite fascinating Birmingham character. I'm a little surprised he hasn't featured more on the forum, though perhaps he was living elsewhere by the time of his most notable accomplishments. It caught my eye that other sources note him as descended from a Lithuanian Jewish...