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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...
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.
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
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...
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...
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
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