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I'm hoping someone can help with two questions relating to my 10th great grandfather Francis Potter, who was born probably in the 1570s and died in 1634 in Kings Norton. His will in 1634 named him as a vintner (and something else... which is my second question below!). In Quarter Sessions in...

A newspaper notice of the marriage of my grandparents reports that their wedding reception was at the Gaynor Rooms, Sparkhill. I've googled this and I can find no reference. Does anyone know where the Gaynor Rooms were? This was in 1931. Thanks!

My great great grandfather Henry Faulkner (1846 to 1888) was listed as a "general brass caster" in several censuses without further detail. He lived in Bishop Street South. The 1879 Post Office Directory clarifies that he was a brass caster working at the "Lombard Works". Does anyone know what...

Does anyone know anything about this business? I can see they appear as Tool Hire specialists in the 1940s and that they were sold to Hewden Stuart in the 1990s. My father worked there between 1948 and 1953 and I'd like to get more information about what it was like then, where it was based...

I'm trying to find an old photo that might show J W Cook Grocers at 726 Stratford Road (near the junction with Formans Road). Joseph Cook ran this from at least 1911 to 1945 so it was around a long time. Today it is a hardware store combined with #724: It would be wonderful to have a period...

My great great grandmother's death is recorded at 22 Newhall Street in 1876. I've looked at the location on old maps (it seems to have become offices some time in the 20th century) and it looks like it was a reasonably posh area compared to the back-to-backs where my gg grandmother lived so I am...

My great grandfather was a tube drawer and later a driller and engineering labourer who live in locations all around Shakespeare Road, Monument Road and Beach Street in the 1890s to 1940s. I notice that in the middle of all those locations were two large factories: the Credenda Tube Works (by...