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Looks like grave numbers to me Area 28 - Grave 28268 & area 23 Grave 23251 Area 23 is just inside the Ridgeway entrance - Turn left area on right. Area 28 is Ridgeway side of Toilet block near chapel. There may well be no Headstones. If there are any in the plot - they usually have the Number...

All being well - I'll be there. Got a book ready for the raffle - one of Ron 'Smudge' Smith's

See post 861 above - Registered were photographed and computerised by the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry - bmsgh.org

It was a small world in those days, Lyn.......................................

They were ours Drs as well.! We were in Little King St until April 1966

Sadly the Council will say that the monies raised by the sale will be "for the benefit of the public". Fingers crossed - but do not hold your breath!

Nice map - Key Hill House has gone by then, and replaced with the buildings we see today in Key Hill Drive - (Used to be a private drive to a Large house previously) - sold off, demolished and all those houses built in place.

Picture earlier on thread of flat stone over Vault by Leslam, also a sketch of where it is. These Vaults were reopened after Birmingham City Council took over the Cemetery and than "Topped up" mostly with the Councils burials of Still born children, and the elderly impoverished dying in hospital...

Vault K20 Warstone Lane in 1950

The slope runs towards Town - I'm sure Charlotte St is off to the right at the far end of the old picture - looks like possibly Gt Charles St Office blocks in the background above the buildings?

Good pics but not sure if from same place? Old pic appears to be looking towards Gt Charles St & Town, Newer pic is looking parallel to Gt Charles St towards Livery St? Surely old pic is off to the left of New pic looking left to right? Happy to be corrected, but many similar monumnets - though...

Thanks to the middleway, the Pentecostal is no longer in the centre - it is now the end building! I'll be passing iot on way to Ladywwod in an hour!

So they changed their mind about a gas works and built Birches Green housing instead?

crossed with this as i was typing! - so further along the Tyburn than I thought!

When was the Tyburn Road cut? Could that be the Tamworth Road, before it was made into a dual Carriageway? It goes to Tamworth, and starts from Gravelly Hill passing alongside the site of the old Power Station?

Usually burial arranged by the Workhouse - cheapest possible burial in Cemetery, depending upon date of death. Not always nearest Cemetery either - depends on which ones were open and pricing policy. Death date essential to locate record in Cemetery Index

Hui Lyn used to have a school friend who lived on the right just beyond the brook in a front house - Martin Inshaw - only child who's parents both worked - he had more toys and corgi cars than my entire family! Sadly they moved about 1964-5 during the holidays and never left a forwarding...

Great shot - mus t be 51 years since I looked at that view!

Yes - All via Snow Hill. Wolverhampton Low level in the other direction.

Don't know if this has been on the forum - I'm not getting much at present, but there is entry (1 of 5) for the Birmingham Big Art Foundation, to put ' a piece of art' outside the new HST Curzon St Station, right by City of Birmingham, It is a full size replica of City of Birmingham, but on it's...