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Am I right in assuming that Muntz Street in Small Heath, is named after this company? Assuming you know of course!

Or even a map of the area!

Yes, the area still exists - I was 100% sure that when I looked on Google Maps that it would no longer be there. Sadly, French Walls Row has gone.

Greetings, Please see attached a picture of my Great Grandfathers birth cert. I am interested if anyone can tell me anything more about the area of French Walls, Smethwick at around the time he was born in 1871. Thank you.

Greetings, You have all been very helpful with my past requests, so I thought I would see if anybody can shed any light on my Great Grandfather William/John Smith as I am going around in circles and I really don't know if I'm chasing the right person. What I'd like an opinion on: is it...

Fabulous - thank you. As you say, possibly on the other side of Old Meeting Street. Probably the larger of three buildings if it had to house the Bradshaw Family and 9 servants.

Do you have any idea what year (ish) this might be, please?

Oh my goodness - how very fantastic - thank you.

The returns say Municipal Ward - Market Hall, Parish of St Jude. If there is a modern build there now, I've obviously gone for the first Dudley Street that popped up on Google and not considered there was one in the City Centre.

Street - that distracted thing again - thanks for pointing it out. I'll edit it

Greetings.... me again, My grandmother is listed in the 1891 Census returns as being one of 9 servants at 36/40 Dudley Sreet, Birmingham. The family that own the address at the time of the 1891 census returns are Richard and Alice Bradshaw and their sons/daughters. With the description of job...

Sorry Lyn, I meant to thank you for pointing that out, but I got a bit distracted. Who knows, it might even be a relative of mine. Mrs Bear

Thanks one and all - Mikejee, your images are a delight. Thank goodness you took them and kept them, who knew that so many years later they'd be of such interest to folk like me! Mrs Bear

Boomy, I agree... not detracting from the fact that this is another fabulous photo!

Astoness - I will check, but if it's on Wenman Street, I'm pretty sure it is what I'm after. Thank you - it is quite fabulous!

Radiorails - Not a problem in the slightest... as you say - at least it's now out there!

I don't know - are they not the same location - I'm going by what was written in the Census returns and some of the handwriting is very bad, plus I may have recalled it incorrectly! I have so many addresses going around in my head, as I'm using lockdown to collate the family history and I...

One is my mother, the other my Cousin - if my maths is correct, he was 15 when the picture was taken, thankfully he is still with us and recalls his time working for my father fondly.

Radiorails - Do you want me to put it there for all to see? I have no copyright interest in the image as I clearly didn't take it and the other side of it is a postcard format, so I imagine it was in wide circulation.

Just realised I had these images.... though why he purchased the premises in 1958 and waited until 1962 to get started is a mystery to me.