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    Paternoster Lifts

    Does anyone remember the" Pater Noster" Lifts?
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    Royal visits to Birmingham

    I was one of the first group of students to attend the new building of Birmingham College of Food and Domestic Arts in Summer Row when it opened in 1967. I remember The Duke of Edinburgh at its Official opening sometime in the Autumn of that year. We had to line the corridors in our Catering whites.
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    Germansilver stamper

    Thank you so much for your time. It seems from my research that my G Grandfather Bernard Hope split away from the family and joined the Royal Artillery in 1885. It would be really interesting to piece all this together. There seems to be a jewellery link on both sides of my maternal line but no...
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    Germansilver stamper

    Thank you so much for this. I am hoping that this is the correct family link. I am really appreciative of you research and info about German silver. The other thing is how do I research wills and probate? I am using Find My Past but have not come across this information. How did you find out...
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    Greyhound, Court Lane

    Thank you. Still, at least I have seen a photograph now. It would be interesting to know when it became a public house, we know it was before 1891.
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    Germansilver stamper

    I have been trying to find out what a German silver spoon maker was. My GG Grandfather is on the 1861 census as one. He is on the 1851 census as a spoon maker. other males in the family are spoon makers or jewellers. They lived in Hockley and then Hylton St, there surname was Hope. I am assuming...
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    Greyhound, Court Lane

    I am pleased to have found the site. I am not too sure how to use it though.
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    Greyhound, Court Lane

    I have been researching my family history and found my Great Grandmother Ellen Hunt on the 1891 census. She is described as a servant at the Greyhound Inn Court Lane Sutton Coldfield. The Landlord was Joshua Hodgetts, described as Licenced Victualler and Farmer.
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