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Great picture,I wonder if the demolished buildings were Number 63 ? Thanks for your interest in my search ,Ray Evason

Please see my fuller report,it may help,Ray Evason

Thanks MWS,will check this out,it was common to call john or Jack !

Thanks Chris,will check this out.

Hi MSW,yes John Spier's was born on 13th Nov 1903 at 63 Allison st Birmingham,thank you for your help and Interest Ray.

Thanks Alberta,for your help and interest,I have John Spier's father who was George Spier's, died 1916, his mother was Alice Spier's ( maiden name SLYNN) who died in 1914 best wishes Ray

Thanks MWS,for your help and interest yes he did move to Leicester and will research the death date of 1956 and 1966.

john Spier's was born on 13th Nov 1903 at 63 Allison st B' ham,his father was George Spier's ( a brass polisher) and his mother was Alice ,maiden name Slynn,,Alice died in 1914 and his father died in 1916, when he became an orphan at age 12, they were living in Skinners lane( off the bottom of...

How do I put information on to your site?I find this very difficult to do please help,I have tried to send messages for help to 3 moderators,but so far no response.

Yes this is the old Dolphin pub,looking towards olton,Dolphin lane,just past the inn on the right was named after the pub,it stood roughly where Aldi stores is now,great picture a ghost from the past,and looking so Rural,Ray Evason.

My grandmother was lodging at 154 Bishop street in the 1911 census,if this helps here are the details,1911 census 154 bishop st,st martins district 384.Susanah Bunn head age 64,Melita Bunn daut age 22,Eliz Ann Beard,lodger 40.Emily Harley ( my grandmother)lodger age 37 occupation pinafore...

I have just found a great picture of a group of shops in Congreve street in 1936 on the pinterest site,reference :- Congreve street Birmingham,England,west midlands 70th birthday pinterest,I have downloaded this great picture onto my tablet,but don't know how to put it on this site,can other...

Thanks for this information Alan,it could be the same property,and shows it was. Still there in 1929.

I can't get this picture on my tablet,how do I get the picture in order to comment ! So frustrating!!

Think its perriots folly in edgebaston itbecame the weather centre

I hope these memories will be of interest to old locals of the sparkbrook area !!, I was born at No: 37 long st in 1931,and attended Christchurch infant school from 1936 to 1939,(the out break of WW2) when I was evacuated to Appleby Magna in Leicestershire, a corporation bus took children from...

Yes Lacy's sold vegetable weighed on old scales,my wife Betty Holt lived next door on the other side of the entry to the 4 back houses,she live at number 149,does anyone remember the Holt family,mother Alice,father jimmy,he was a coalman,then bill,Jean,Betty,patty,and Glenys