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Thanks Pedro, however, the name appears in 'Erdington Vol II' by Peter Drake and Marian Baxter, and the photo is dated 1925 when the houses were well established so I think it's an an older name. It's purported to be the route of the gipsies from the Onion Fair on their way to Sutton Coldfield...

Thanks Lyn, this may explain the 'waste ground' reference.

Can anyone help with the original route of Gipsy Lane please? The only map I have, pre-cemetery, is a bit fuzzy. I can't tell if what I'm looking at is a track or a stream! It's the 1815 OS one. I'm wondering if it was a track leading up to what is now College Road, crossing what would have...

Mike, I know that the Onion Fair ended up on the Serpentine Ground but I seem to remember that it first went to what was to become Walmer Recreation Ground in Miller Street / St Stephen's Street? Can you recall if this is right?

Pedro, Holy Trinity Catholic Church was on the right of Lichfield Road (same road, different name) going towards Mere Green just before Tamworth Road, close to Bishop Vesey school. I believe the building has been an Indian restaurant and offices since the church moved. It crossed the road during...

I think one of the problems we have is that lots of areas of Birmingham came under Aston Parish in times gone by and it's misleading as now we have the areas which stand alone. I'm plumping for Bordesley.

PS. Just checked my Bartholemew's Atlas and Green Lane Bordesley is quite close to Holy Trinity Camp Hill/Bordesley.

Although the area in Sutton is known as Green Lanes it seems very doubtful to me that this would actually be the area in question. If your relative had been living at the Sutton address he would have been buried at Sutton Parish church (also Holy Trinity). Lots of roads were known as 'green...

Lovely story Carliol, I have a coloured version of your picture. You might like the other photo which shows the shop, kindly posted by a member on another thread.I moved into Blackham Drive (up on the right) in 1969 and I wondered if you remembered the white house which stood a couple of doors...

Thanks Lyn, yes I enjoyed the book too. I hadn't spotted Shellywoos location. Penny

Shellywoos, they did have a copy at Erdington Library as I borrowed it a long time ago. It might be worth checking with them and on the library website.

Thanks Alberta. As I explained to Sue the Maybury's are my husband's family and luckily, in 1993 his two cousins, Margaret and Eileen, produced a family history for the Mayburys. This was done the hard way with visits to the library etc. as much more is on line now as you know. I belong to a...

Thank you but I don't have a tree on Ancestry Sue, although that is my husband's family. I'm looking into several properties in Erdington/Sutton Coldfield which belonged to Sylvanus b.1770 at West Bromwich so at the moment I'm trying to find wills belonging to the family. The problem with wills...

Thank you all. Especially as I put 'Skirt Street' not 'Skirts Lane'. So glad you're all on the ball! Lots of information there for me to digest - I will be back. Thanks again.

Does everyone have to have wills or probate? I'm searching for one for William Maybury, born in West Bromwich in 1741 and the most likely death is 1801 in Birmingham. His last child Jabez was born in this city. There's quite a lot of documentation about his wife Jane (nee Jackson) including her...

Has anyone heard of this Street please? It may have been misheard/misspelled as I can't find anything so far on the 1841 census. I have a burial entry from 1844 for Kezia Collins, Skirt Street, St Mary's, Moseley. I have found her baptism entry in 1795 at St Mary's Church, Whittall Street. She...

Brilliant news Lyn. Congratulations all round. P x

Thanks Mike, much clearer on your map.

This is what Carl Chinn had to say. AS THE hit song goes: "Let's hear it for New York". Well, locally what about: "Let's hear it for Deritend"? Why? Because Deritend is one of the oldest and most important place names in the history of Birmingham and yet it seems doomed to disappear from the...

A Very Happy New Year to everyone and thank you for all your help over the past year. Invaluable!