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  1. brummie nick

    Sheldon Bombing

    I would say it was about three to four hundred yards from the old trolly bus terminus, as I remember it. Nick
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    Sheldon Bombing

    Just found this. Tigar (sic) Island first appears in the 1891 Census as the home of the Burgess family; Thomas Burgess was employed as a gamekeeper, presumably at nearby Elmdon Hall. (My thanks to Les Homer for pointing this out. He can remember a cottage of that name on the site of the...
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    Sheldon Bombing

    Tigers Island was defiantly past the old terminus, there used to be two cottages opposite each other there. Nick
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    Libraries Under Threat

    Its not only Birmingham. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/10/uk-lost-200-libraries-2012
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    Street furniture

    We referred to the cage on the front of Trams as Cow catchers, they made a loud noise when they came down, I remember seeing a dog caught in one on Garrison lane.
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    Identifying address assistance please

    There is a reference to Gravelly hill canal cottage's on this site. https://www.members.iinet.net.au/[email protected]/Written%20memories%20of%20an%20early%201900%27s%20childhood%20in%20Gravelly%20Hill,%20Erdington.html
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    Sheldon Bombing

    Hi Ian, I'd be interested in seeing you picture of Parkdale Rd party. we've lived in Parkdale since 1962. Nick
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    James Turner Street

    I found this James Turner on the 1851 census, James TURNER Head M 59 M Button Maker Birmm-WAR Ann Maria TURNER Wife M 58 F --- Birmm-WAR Ann Maria TURNER Daur U 32 F --- Birmm-WAR Helen TURNER Daur U 30 F --- Birmm-WAR...
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    Sheldon Bombing

    I posted two pictures of the school on here. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=41524&highlight=silvermere+school
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    11 years today.

    I was surprised to find I joined October 6th, 2002. Time flies as they say. Nick
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    Sheldon shops

    I think the chip shop is now a curry house, and they knocked the pub down and its now an Aldi supermarket
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    Rorke’s Drift and the Warwickshire regiment

    Michael, I think the barracks you mention, was for Cavalry regiments, and would have had no connection to the Warwickshire's Nick
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    Sheldon shops

    There was a driving test centre in that area, I remember taking my daughter there.
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    City Centre Photographs

    Interesting to see that 'horse less carriage' I can't see then becoming very popular though.
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    Bull Ring until 1920s

    On the 1851 census John Clark is a lodger. Name Relationship Mar Age Sex Occupation Birthplace Mary JENKINS Head U 36 F Ironmonger Birmingham-WAR John JENKINS Neph - 6 M --- Houndsditch-MID John CLARK Lodg U 37 M...
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    Bordesley Green

    I left about 1944, went to Ada Road.
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    School Milk

    I remember going on a caravan holiday and being sent to the shop on site for I think a loaf of bread, as soon has I spoke the woman who ran the shop said “tell your mother we have Birmingham milk {sterra} in stock. Nick
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    Bordesley Green

    I remember being taken to that Bank from Tilton Rd School to open an account, we’d started of with a small book that you could put small amounts in till you’d got a Pound, then we were taken there and opened an account with a £1 Nick
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    Bordesley Green

    Try again
  20. brummie nick

    Bordesley Green

    I've posted pictures before on here, not sure why this one doesn't work.
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