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I worked in the printers next to The Old Wharfe pub on the corner of Coventry/Oxford Streets from 1968 and was told that not long before they used to have their Tea etc bought over from houses on opposite corner by the lady of the house.There were still a few dwellings around at that time but as...

I dont understand........if theres a Genealogy section and people ask for help in this section how does it impact on other sections? Surely people who dont like Genealogy questions are not impacted when someone uses the section.

Hi, Is there a thread on here for Deritend, St John the Baptist Church. Nearly all Wifes older relatives were married there. Think it was somewhere around where Coach Station is now.They all lived around Cheapside.

Yes we always heard and said " if you go in there you wont come out"......always thought they meant Selly Oak Hospital as it always happened to relatives.

cant see any maps and the links dont work ?

I lived in 1976 in Kings Green Ave just off Rednal Road just around the corner from The Green and everyone in and around the back gardens area said this was the site of the Workhouse. At the bottom of the gardens was substantial brick walls and was told this was the perimiter of the grounds.

My Daughter did Ancestry - just for fun at 1st. But as she knew I had started to try and find out about Wifes Mother and line she found a very close match for my Wife - a child of her Moms Uncle. This opened up a whole new chapter to search which turned up 4 more children and so far 4...

Born in Lordswood in 52...no idea why though...selly oak must have been full...lol

Not sure if all are Bradford St or who took them - hope OK to put on here. Update....Credit University of Birmingham

I worked in the building on the corner of Bradford St and Alcester St called Miller Works on the map.....This was from 1980-84ish and we knew it as the Old Chad Valley building ...there was a tower part about 6 storeys...it was mainly hollow and think had something to do with making plastic for...

At Firsby in 39 she lived with her Mom Caroline and Moms 2nd husband (1st died in 1919) and Ivy May Butcher who is wifes Mom and Carolines GDaughter. The other Beratrice you mention is not related at all....there are so many with same names around its baffling.....and all had similar jobs as...

Yes we thought it strange that its got Coventry as the place...but on Death Cert it says Coventry and Warks Hospital U.D...I think it could be Selly Oak ?....looking again at the Death Cert it lists her as office cleaner so my earlier thought that she cleaned Pub and Works could be right....cant...

I cant find any reference for a Richard Lunt factory in Quinton but piecing things together ( with no evidence) I see she and her Mother were "charing" in 39 and could have cleaned The Punch Bowl and Lunts but its all just guessing.

YES......THANKS both......I had thought about Lunt and found a Lunt Grove but it didnt look likely to have been a factory here at that time.....and her younger niece might have worked there as she was in 39 register as a Hand Press Worker.....I know hand press work was being done around Hockley...

Hope this is correct place to ask........I was trying to find out where a relative worked.In a Birmingham Mail snippet it says Bulpitt and sons....I have looked all through threads on here and couldnt find what I wanted. I have a reason to ask if they had some premises around Quinto/Woodgate...

Just found the names of 2 Snooks family in Green Acres Road Kings Norton in 1950. My Nan and Mom moved here from Belgrave Road so these could have moved from Small Heath....maybe to work in Austins ?

I wasnt going to ask about the family but saw the Sun St thread and after reading about everyone elses families thought I would say about mine that lived there as I thought it had gone by 1930.

My Mothers family were from Wednesfield and Tipton and both families went to The Wirral ( they didnt know each other) But I suppose they were drawn to each other being from same place and anyway 2 got married and had 3 children. The Dad died in 1930 and it seems that then my Nan moved back to...

Remember my Mom mentioning Mrs Snooks who lived 5 doors down in Green Acres Rd B31...I was born 1952 so must have been around 1960.

On my wife's side her Great Grand Mother Caroline married an Albert G Field in 1938.They had both been married before and lived in Firsby Road in 1939 Register with her Daughter and her Grand Daughter ( wifes Mom). They had both previously lived in and around Cheapside and town....