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Early in the year I contacted the coroner's office for a 1903 suicide, they got back to me within a day, But only to tell me that the person I was looking for wasn't on file.

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Another view of Dents garage

Brilliant Photo's of real life....Doesn't matter if they are Brummies or not, it show that the conditions that most of us lived in at that time was repeated up and down this country.

I have two from Shoothill....One with Winsor Street , and one of the Barracks

Don't know if this link as already been posted before, if it has then maybe some of the newer members might like to take a view. https://bothness.github.io/ons-basemaps/...

What is the grave and plot number, plus the year of the burial if you know

I think the manor house was were the doctors surgery was located, Sorry I got it wrong, was looking at the old rectory...

Is this any help

I seen him once but not to talk to, he was running down I think Kingstanding road with a young girl, I was on the bus, but this well over forty years ago, I would love to know where all the lads from that went to, I know that a few have passed away, the lads who were a little older than us..

Miss Rock always had the 1st class of the infants, don't know how long she was there for but she retired I think when I was in the last class of the juniors, Mr Burgess was the headmaster, Mrs Patterson his secretary, Mrs Stock, Mrs Hardy, Mrs Wilcocks, Mr Lovett, Mr Eastwood, Miss Budd, Mr...

Yes Michael I was there from September 1958 till July 1964, Miss Rock was my first teacher, I had no favourites I disliked them all, I dislike totally, infants, junior and seniors, But I did enjoy my childhood outside of school.

Hi Don....Yeah we were nearly enough all mates of each other those days, either playing football in the play ground of Burlington Street school, or on Blew Street Park, play tracking on the then being built Newtown Shopping Centre, great days and great memories..

Trying to think where we used to go, I think we used to go to Perry Hall by the paddle boat moat, there used to be a small stream there, but its been 60 years since I last went there fishing for sticklebacks, there was one where the new sports stadium was built at one time..

There is always Sutton Park, Lyn, I think there are a few streams close to the main gate and Boldmere, make sure if he goes paddling to wear something on his feet,

The building bottom left is Bristol Street Motor's Part Department, Adelaide Street, I was there from about mid 1971 till September 1976 when they moved to Electric Avenue in 1975, the building in the photo was burnt down in November 1974, we thought it was the action of the IRA, due to us...

It is the correct child involved, and yes his parents were together in 1901 and the death certificate does correspond with the top half of the application, goodness knows where the other information came from, there is no records or news paper articles to back it up or confirm the suicide of...

Had a reply from the Library of Birmingham who hold the coroners records, wasn't what I was hoping for...( Thank you for your e-mail forwarded to us from the Coroner’s Office. I checked the box of Birmingham inquests we hold around 2nd April, up to the 20th April, 1903, but I couldn’t see an...

That George Frederick died in a fire in the 1960's, fell asleep smoking...his brother was my uncle by marriage, Nearly everyone gets the two Georges mixed up

Thank you Pedrocut you have been a great help