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hI maurice nice to hear from you best wishes Alan Astonian ;;;;;

i would like an answer please mike here as to be a reason for it

hi mike what as happenend to my peice i wrote 25 mins abiut the school of the messiagh where as it gone before lynn put her peice in mine as disappeared how ?

Hi Rosie The church of the Messiah british school -- broad street Was in existence in 1868 and known as Broad street Board school. it received annual grants from1869. It was supported by the Unitarian congregation but was undenominatioal, closed in1873 it then had accomodation For 531, the...

Hi mike i Am surprized to hear that the book i took the contents from was one of carls chinn book so he must also have got it wrong information so i wonder just where he got his info; from thanks for notifying e on that bit best wishes Alan

Hi Mike I Have just came across a article in an old book i have which i thought might be of intrest to us alland it mentionioned tonk street so i thought i would put this on as a add on to tonk street i have included a picture with it the picture is of Hil Street [ CITY ] As its name...

well it states that park street indicates human activity from at least the late twelthcentury onwards. Both these streets moor street were cut out after Edgbaston street and DIGBETH and its continuation High Town [ High Street]

david they will spend days there to get to the crux of the start of the fire they will leave no stone untouched and if anybody knows about these listed building and if there was a comretive brick layed they will take that first before anybody demolished it i know of another building afew years...

Hi mike just reading an article here about the lord mayor,s coachman and its stated that in the city centre Tonk streetwas erased for hill street and in the out laying areas, Sheep street erdington made way for station road in 1887 Donkey laneacocks green was dropped forHarvey road in 1906...

Hi Lynn and emptyness sorry i have to diagree with you emptyness lynn is correct many years ago when that shareholder was orinigal built they demoed a couple of houses to build the orinigal one way back in time and it was more or less a one room situated we are going back to about the 1956...

Yes they was brand ner w built for there new boiler house which was also built and the frontage was finished by 1956how do i know because colin gaskin and myself used to creep in the yard which was around the corner in upper portland street and there was a very huge drop pitt for there coal...

Hi Paul my uncle bill smart and myself worked in the Avery scales foundry lane for years we both worked in the elecrtro plating department and also i used to paint some of them scales and the jockey scales it was a great company to work for it was my uncle bill got me the job there way back in...

Hi Wiliamstreeter Very true to word spoken if you seen the tv news on those days of the last prison riots at the green of the year gone bye did you see the riot squad ging in to sort them out ,well they are the team from the HMP SQUAD These guys are from the excisting teams of officiers and...

william streeter yes you are correct there was no riots in that prison at winson green because before the goverment sold out to private sectorthere was prison officiers there was called HMP prison officiers and these me was big tall men and ex forces and police officers they was toughen men whom...

Hi mikejee The old general post office was in pinfold street and not in ethell street can be seen in the distance And yes it was in 1890 the new post office openend in [ 1890 ] is on the right and Christchurch on the left The robert...

May be the reclaimed tracks was for the making of the high steel kerbs stones because before the intoduction of the brick kerbs which replaced the high steel kerbs they used in the early years my uncle bill smart was one of those corporatio workers whom removed them steel ones and replace the...

yes its often the case many yearss back its the same around bornvlle area only thers are maiinly named after flower names and plants Iexcept that was the cadbury familys generations whom was responible that of ther naming of the roads just like they was in charge of the young juveniles...

yes the aston resturant was still operational at that time annd where the jelfs coffee shop on the corner was where the number 8 bus drivers got there tea caddy refilled up for tea as where the main buses coming from the city along aston road north from tjhe city mainly 64 buses stopped out side...

Well billy here is afew more names you can check out if you want listings of street renamed present name formerly Hadley street Albert street [1887 ] Jakeman street...

How do youknow whether she found happiness and got married to some one my friend it does happen to people why presume she passed away and burried best of luck in your searching if you are correct and then i am sure that one of our members whom are the experts may shine some light on it for you...