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Does anyone here have the full date of birth for Mary M Rodway (nee Inshaw and mother of Philip Rodway)? i.e. the date including the day and month?

There is a Birmingham Hippodrome Heritage site that lists what was on every week from October 1899 to the present day. Click on this link and then click on 'Chronology' on the home screen. I cannot a see a 'Suzette' for the period 1945 to 1950 but for a lot of the weeks in that period the site...

Do you know what the ticket prices were for the Frank Sinatra shows in 1953?

Bobbie Kimber was a ventriloquist so it may be that 'Augustus Peabody' was his dummy.

My understanding, from looking at a map drawn around 1920 is that the buildings of Warren Farm were about where the junction of Charlton Road and Dulwich Road is today and from the map it looks like it was accessed from Hawthorn Road along a track that is roughly where Charlton Road is today.

According to Wikipedia, originally opened in 1740 called 'Sawyers Assembly Rooms' after the first owner William Sawyer. In 1765 the Duke of York visited and described the room as 'mean.' As a result new assembly rooms were built at the Royal Hotel, Temple Row in 1772. Despite this Sawyer's rooms...

Hi, the caption of this photo states the Stork Hotel is on the right. But if we compare the buildings to the the photo The caption this photo states that the Stork Hotel is on the right. But if we look at the photo of the Stork Hotel with the coach outside, uploaded in Aidan's original post on...

The mystery of the location of the White Swan has been solved. The original poster (to facebook), Thomas Neale, thought the photo on post 16 was taken near Villa Park because he believed his late father (who is a child in the photo) lived near Villa Park in the 1930s. I supplied him with the...

Thanks Phil. Excellent detective work. What would be nice now is if someone could produce a photo that they know is of the White Swan Legge Street

If the name on top right of the photo is the landlord's name then it might be Frank Hendry or Frank Hindley or something close to that. Difficult as it is blurry.

I have found out from the Joseph Priestley House website that the statue was moved to Chamberlain Square in 1913. http://www.josephpriestleyhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/Story-of-the-Statuette-of-Joseph-Priestley-at-Priestley-House.pdf

Does anyone know if the The Upper Grounds was called the White Swan back in the 1930s. The attached photo was posted on Old Pics of Brum Facebook group and we are trying to locate it. The poster believes it would be somewhere near Villa Park as his father is in the photo and lived in the area in...

Does anyone know when Joseph Priestley's statue was moved from Victoria Square to Chamberlain Square?