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I think my mother went there for a while. She was Valerie Powell then. Mid and late 1940s. But I think she moved on to the Auden school in Selly Oak.

I've got a Dugmore connection from that neighbourhood as well. My Great Grandmother was Mary Dugmore, born 1863 in Ladywood/Brookfields, daughter of Samuel Dugmore born c. 1841 Birmingham, and Emma Avery c. 1840.

The name Snooks (sometimes spelled as Snookes) was common round there, too. That was my Gran's birth name (she was raised by her aunt Polly Beaman). I can only find one half decent photo of Norman Street, and there's just a grass verge on it where their house stood.

I was watching the news story about Bham City Council's plan to build a 50metre Olympic size swimming pool (anybody think it won't happen?), and I am sure the site they showed is smack bang on top of where Garbett Street was off King Edwards Road. My Grandparents Jack and Laura Brown lived...

It wasn't until I saw something about it on tv the other day that I found out that the eviction scenes from Cathy Come Home were filmed in Hingeston Street. You probably all knew that, but it got past me.

Martin Shaw, born Erdington. Adrian Lester (Hustle, RSC, National Theatre), born Edgbaston

Yes, I agree. Plant was born in West Brom and brought up in Halesowen then Kidderminster. Holder is from Walsall. But Julie Walters was born in Edgbaston and moved out to Smethwick, so she's fine. It annoys me that they won't put dead people on there. Michael Balcon and Oscar Deutch (sp?)...

Could somebody tell me where this street was? I have ancestors who lived there, and I believe it was somewhere close to the prison. I can't find any old maps, etc, with it on. Thanks.

My father worked at the Hippodrome from 1950 to about 1981. He did every job going , on his way up. From 67 to 81 he was the Stage Manager. He must have met every major name in the business during that time. My mother worked in the box office in the early sixties before they married, and...

Pomgolian........ my mother also went to the George Auden school. She would have been there in the forties. She lived on Balsall Heath Road and at some point in Longmore Street.

I can't find much on this street. What I really want is old photos. My Grandmother Laura Beaman grew up there. Her mother Polly Beaman had a little shop there, and was known for her charity to the poorest of the local children. Polly lived there from early 1900s to the fifties when she died...

Billy Kimber tends to come up mostly in things written about the Sabinis, particularly Darby Sabini, big London villain of the same time and main rival of Kimber. Another name to look for is Andrew Townie, who was one of Kimber's partners in crime. Incidentally, Kimber appears on the 1901...

I am interested in any descendants of the Chesln family who mostly lived in and around the Balsall Heath area in the late 19th century and early/mid 20th. My Grandmother was Maud Cheslin born 1911. From census records there seem to have been a lot of them.