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My Dearest Northfield....I am a ditz and a bounder....and I would like to apologise profusely for my abruptness....if anyone should ask you again for proof..ever......show them this.....the Tithe map of Yardley dated 1843...and note where the Cottagers Institute was...no 468 I reckon....then...

Yes, and I mentioned them in my first post....but since then....I found this....I am undone! My cup runneth under....Mike Byrne, the Acocks Green Librarian, and book author of "Yardley"....has this in his book...and I'm not arguing with HIM!!! I will pay up and look big, as my nan always...

Does anyone now when the ORIGINAL Ring O’Bells in Church Road, Yardley, was built? In it’s blurbs, the Yardley Conservation site claims that the original (presumably the one before this one) was opposite St Edburgh's Church, where the Cottagers Institute is now …Now nowhere in any published...

Not as much as these though mike...from the Flikr archives....actually captioned Wykham Close...completely derelict place....dated 2011.....

Wow...sounds cool mike....fabulous sleuthing as per!

You absolute Beauty mike!!! first in class....eternal thanks..!

Another mystery property, currently looking very threatened by works going on around the area....it looks substantial enough for a name, lovely black and white tudor timbering etc......but no one seems to knows owt about it in the local history books, not name or history etc...it's just on your...

Yes nick....just posted a whole heap of stuff about Elmdon on the dreaded FB site....here are a few pics from it...referring to your comment....thanks....

And your reference to that is?

Cheers Phil....

Another query....doing a bit on Sheldon and Elmdon and came across this pic showing a pub I've only vaguely heard of...The Cock Inn....on Coventry Road where the old Elmdon airport entrance is now..? Any one got a better picture of the pub Phil...and a map mike?

Thanks for trying boys...I just had to check you two out before some time consuming research...ho. hum...will ket you know if anything turns up...

Love that bus Phil! Now, another hopeful plea for help...this is a bit more local to me, but I thought I would ask the detectives whilst they are hot!.....one of the nice buildings in Yardley Village, where I live, is the Cottagers Institute, bang opposite the Church.....No.433 Church Road...

Cheers mike...very perspicacious of you...whatever that means...?

OK....it does look a little too well built to be from 1850s....but I think that's the plot?

Blimey....brilliant as per you two..now mike...given your map and deductions are right. I may be in luck (he said, crossing his fingers) because the house may still be there....two photos, Bing and Google, may prove it ? What do you think...right spot? Next to the Friends Institute, a Cadbury...

Cheers Carolina...very useful....and John too...always reliable you lot! 11 Church Road (Yellow), Edgbaston is just up from my old mate and colleague Mike Emens' old pad...No 14 (red ) ..gynaecologist to the gentry! He's shrunk down to Frederick Road now! What a coincidence!!!

It usually is Judy!

Cheers Carolina....have you got his address in Church Rd later when he was in Brum....? Maybe..???

I think Jayell's bang on Phil....the Pillars clinched it....