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    Former Midland Red Garage Sheepcote st Land To Be Built On

    Another one - are there really that many people wanting hotel accomodation then? It's like Tamworth, there's an epidemic of hotels! Sue
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    Bhf christmas meet 2012

    The food was great at the Jewellers, dad reckoned the amount of ham in his gammon ham sandwich would have done him a week and moms fishfinger baguette had 8 fishfingers in it - now I'm hungry lol! Could always chuck the picnic table and chairs in the...
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    burial look up please

    Re: buriel look up please There are loads of them over here in Tamworth too Lynne and Lyn, a friend of mine thought she may try to research her family, but with no info further back than her dad born in 1940, she has thrown in the towel! There is even a Crutchley Avenue here. Regarding the...
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    Breezes? sweet shop, Green Lane, Small Heath

    Hi Annie, Dad lived at 45 Victoria Street from 1933 to 1939,but the family had lived there since the war, Grandad Albert had a milk delivery business which he ran from the yard behind the house, dad went there aged 2 when his mohad a nervous breakdown and his dad moved back in with the family...
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    Bhf christmas meet 2012

    David, have you an my dad got something planned, when I was telling him how many of us there were his question was "do hey do breakfasts" lol Sue
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    St Barnabas Church Erdington

    Now that looks much better than the spaceship!! thanks Frothy Sue
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    Postie, 10th Anniversary.

    Happy Anniversary Jim, Hilary and Warren and many thanks for keeping the forum in running order - not so sure about the sanity though, if we are sane, pity the rest of the population lol! Sue
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    Book: Family History on the Net by Colin Waters

    Not sure whether to post this on here or genealogy thread, but here goes. Mom and dad have just got me a really interesting book for genealogy research info, called Family History on the Net by Colin Waters. It has kists of useful sites from where to look up family interests, not just BMD, but...
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    Buriel place, George Crutchley.

    True Bri, but it doesn't hurt so much when you fall over lol Sue
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    Bhf christmas meet 2012

    maybe we could overspill into the rest of the pub too!!! - as well as the pavement, and of course theres always the table tops lol Sue
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    Floyd Henry Help please....

    Thanks Alberta, not as quick as you lol - that and getting lunches ready for tomorrow! Sue
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    Floyd Henry Help please....

    Ok will look in that direction for you. Still having no luck with a burial place either, do you know where she was living before her death? Sue
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    Floyd Henry Help please....

    That makes a difference, am struggling for a Kate or Catherine from Birmingham, have got one from Worcester born 1904, so dates would fit, but there are a few from up north. Thing that was throwing me is on 1911 census, Kate is listed as being born in Birmingham, but the census isn't always...
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    Marriage 1816 Murphy/Richards

    Sometimes available on familysearch.org, if the record has been transcribed Sue,not that many though. Sue
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    Floyd Henry Help please....

    Hi Pamela, this is the one I found, I would think it is the right one, as her siblings names match, if you want to look at it yourself, I searched on "all categories" with Kate Butler, born 1902 +/- 5, added maariage in any events as 1927, which Alberta found and then in family members put...
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    Buriel place, George Crutchley.

    You'll just have to do it the opposite way this time then Lyn, pub first.......................................... Sue
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    Bhf christmas meet 2012

    Can we ask the jewellers to build an extension Lyn - it will be lovely to meet everyone and we will know each other with the new badges - thanks Tom! Sue
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    Floyd Henry Help please....

    Pamela and Irene, your nan is on Ancestry in the 1911 census, as Kate Butler - I have the details, which I can put on if you want, but haven't in case you want to trace her yourself and get the info - I know I loved the help, but also got cross with myself because I hadn't found it, so just...
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    sundays remembrance .

    Kenny, thanks for the pics, bet the atmosphere there was great, its such a lovely place, did the sun manage to shine through at 11 to show the obelisk in all its glory? Sue
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    Buriel place, George Crutchley.

    What great pics Brian, like Lynne says sad to see in such a state of disrepair though. Lynne and Lyn, you be careful in those graveyards with a hip flask, next thing we know you will be on Emergency Biker, being picked up drunk lol!! Hope you find the grave ok anyway Sue
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