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Thanks Brasscaster, I don't remember seeing any of these before.

Next 5: 5. Moat House, Moor End Lane. 6. Witton Isolation Hospital. 7. St Agnes' Convent. 8. Smithy in Sutton Road Erdington (not sure where exactly). 9. Old Tollgate House - Gravelly Hill. ).

I have recently found a great book (in size as well as content) by Meacham. It includes hundreds of newscuttings about Erdington. You will see that they aren't very clear images but it's difficult to take photos and hold the book down! I'm not sure whether they are prints from the newspapers...

Viv, I re-read this thread and realised that I said it was the Bell & Cuckoo on the left. 5 years down the line and I'm putting my mistake right. The property on the left was known as 'The White House' and was never a pub as someone pointed out. The Bell & Cuckoo would have been on the...

My Auntie Dolly married a man named Arthur. I was looking for their marriage and found that Arthur had previously been married although this had not been mentioned in the family. Dolly & Arthur were married in church in the early part of the 20thC so I was quite puzzled. Arthur had a younger...

Browsing the records for Aston Parish Church I found the following vestry note and transcribed it (keeping the spelling). The note is dated 1704 but I'm not sure which house it relates to. It does give a couple of names however. Mr Addis was living at Moor Hall at the time. There can't have been...

Pedro, I don't know how I missed this map - it's brilliant! I have a Tomlinson map copy but it's nowhere near as detailed as this one. I will be studying this later and I'm sorry for missing it first time round. Thanks. Are they available online?

Hi Keith, We've been to the Wolfson Centre today and copied Edward Lee's inquest papers for you. Don't worry about reimbursement - it didn't costs very much at all. I spoke to the archivist about sharing this material and there was no problem with sending them to you but the images cannot be...

Here's another couple of Bracebridge Street for you RRJ.

This is just for interest really. It's a copy of the original of the printed poem about 'The Bell' and explains why I was glad to have a translation! I always find the 'f for s' very confusing.

RRJ, Clifford's cafe belonged to my Aunt & Uncle (Dolly and Arthur). Attached is a photo outside their cafe at 76 St Stephen's Street. It shows the shop you were talking about and the corner of Walmer Rec.

Hi Viv, I do think it's Birmingham - that's St Jude's on the left. My gt grandparents were married there.

Thanks Pedro. Much appreciated.

Thanks Mike

I've been researching Jordan's Grave for some time and theories abound as to what it is and who Jordan was. He could have been a highwayman, hung on the gibbet just down the road, a self-murderer/suicide (buried at the crossroads with a stake through his heart) or maybe a gypsy interred at a...

Thank you for that Pedro. I have a copy but I think it was probably written much earlier as it mentions the droves which ceased when the railways came. Maybe a hundred years earlier and it was written by the landlord, trying to drum up business. I think the pub closed in the mid-1800's. I'm very...

Hi Viv, Smashing picture! I think that your post #91 is probably fairly accurate! I was tracing a family of cabbies from around that time and it was indeed chaos with private vehicles, pedestrians, horsemen, as well as the omnibuses, deliveries etc. and I don't suppose the roads were free from...

I'm slightly off-topic Eric but I'm sure nobody will mind in this case. I just wanted to say that I'm always amazed at the way you are able to capture light and reflections in your paintings as in this one. Lovely!

I got over excited and booked a slot at the Wolfson Centre next week thinking that the trams would be repaired by then. I might have known that they wouldn't be running! We now have to do a slight detour up Lower Temple Street rather than facing Pinfold Street.

Thank you kind Sir! Brilliant as usual Pedro. I knew nothing about this until my cousin came for lunch on Easter Sunday and mentioned it. Not sure how he knew so I'll send him these cuttings and ask the question.