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    Bull Family Look Up Please

    In 1901 Frank Bull living at 89 Cattell rd with wife H age 39, Daughter ?F age 20, son A. age 19, daughter M age 13, daughter A.A age 7 and son G age 2, there are no christian names shown Frank died in 1910 and i believe i have the family in 1911 living at Marrs Building Liverpool St Ada age...
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    Haunch Lane Farm Kings Heath.

    Hi I am glad you found the map useful My relatives Joseph Hill lived in Haunch Lane in 1871 and by 1891 was a Farm Baliff at Warstock Farm
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    Haunch Lane Farm Kings Heath.

    if you look here its a map of 1884 showing haunch lane farm https://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55194&sheetid=10127&ox=4240&oy=1686&zm=1&czm=1&x=220&y=134 hope this helps rob
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    Liverpool Street, Deritend.

    Hi Brock I dont have any photos of Liverpool St but i had some relatives who also lived in Liverpool St in 1911, but alas i cant find anything else about them at the moment (Bull family) lived at 5 Liverpool St. Anyway i know Liverpool St really well as i worked for WMPTE now National Express...
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    Hopwood Raf Station

    my Grandfather was a corporal based at RAF Wythall, although he never spoke about anything he did i only found out from my mother keeping his driving licences with his address on them
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    Cutler- look up for cutler/ smiths

    Re: look up for cutler/ smiths Hi looking at fbdm there are some children to a cutler and smith thelma m born march quarter 1944, kenneth s born march quarter 1951 birmingham and anne m also born march quarter 1951 i dont know if they are children to this family or not (kenneth and anne could...
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    Tyburn Road Bus Works

    i was late on in life and visited there from 1980 to 1989 my name is rob vaughan and as i said i worked at liverpool st as my base but visited on a daily basis i remember dennis gilman i will ask my wife for other people who worked there she was there from about 1982 to about 199o odd then...
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    Tyburn Road Bus Works

    i worked at liverpool st for 9 years and did stores duties from liverpool st, cov rd, hockley, perry barr delivering used items back to tyburn and then refurbished ones back to the garages, thats where i met my now wife she worked in the offices,for those who would know her she was june i had...
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    Norman Wisdom

    Norman Wisdom was at Birmingham Hippodrome with a relative of mine Dickie Lawler , who was a stand up comedian in the 50s? and worked at Eccles factory in Stirchley, i think my mother has a program signed by all those at the hipp Unfortunetly i have no futher info on Dickie (Richard Lawler)
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    Liverpool street, digbeth, birmingham

    i worked for 8 years at Liverpool St garage in the 80s I then found out in 1901 and 1911 i had relatives who lived in the same st
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    Marriage look up Hawkes/wilkes

    Thats the family then Seems odd they both lived in Kings Heath but got married in town, one of the kids was baptised in moseley and the rest in Kings Heath I would have thought they would have got married closer to home Anyway thanks very much for the info rob
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    Marriage look up Hawkes/wilkes

    The lds web site gives a marriage of William Hawkes to Ann Wilkes 21 12 1857 i wonder if someone could look at this My William was a gunmaker and lived in Kings Heath/Moseley Many thanks
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    Bsa Factory In Blitz

    hi i just spoke to my mother who now says Albert Carter got a medal from Dunlop As a by i knew Micheal Minton well he llived over the road from my parents and died in the 90s
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    Bsa Factory In Blitz

    my mother tells me that a relative of ours albert carter won a medal for assisting here i can find no record of it though any ideas
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    Bull Family

    Frank Bull b 1862 in Kings Heath died 1909 in 1881 he is a fender maker with his parents No sign of him in 1891 family rumour has it he went in too the army his mother bought him out he rejoined and after met a woman in london and nothing else was heard about him, the frank in 1901 fits in...
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    Hazelwell Cottages Stirchley

    Yes i know the area i will have a better look soon many thanks again
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    Hazelwell Cottages Stirchley

    That looks like it could be the place i live nearby and have looked at the censuses trying to figure out its location as well as walking the area many thanks for your help rob
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    Hazelwell Cottages Stirchley

    its george vaughan born 1839 and family living in 1881 in Vicarage Rd 1891 Hazelwell cottages 1901 Hazelwell Cottages many thanks rob
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    Hazelwell Cottages Stirchley

    i have some relatives who lived in Hazelwell Cottages in Stirchley/ Kings Heath in 1891 and 1901 I wonder if anyone knows the location of these please
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    the Moseley Tram Depot

    i worked for wmpte from 1980 to 1988 and have fond memories of Moseley Rd i did some courses there and remember in about 1989 'assisting' witth an edition of Challenge Anneka which was filmed there ,doing up a number of buses to send abroad i think the con was half the work was already done...
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