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Thanks for the information Mikejee. I am happy to know i remembered correctly now i need to see if there is a family conection. Thanks again,Angela.

Hi everyone,does anyone have access to Kellys Directory please. I am looking for information about a Jewellery firm or shop called Price at the top of Frederick Street by the clock in the Jewelery Quarter in 1967.Thanks Angela.

Hi Everyone,i found 2 great photos of Great Russell Street in 1967 on Phillis Nicklin website. Search Great Russell Street and click on 50s and 60s Birmingham. I think the one with the boy is taken looking down towards New John Street and the other to the right,note the position of the...

Hi Astoness,i was in the area yesterday,its like a maze so i drove around and up and down to familiarise myself. It all seemed so much smaller than i imagined so it must have been very cramped when the streets were lined with houses. I found the park but i was at the Tower Road end and i...

Hi everyone and thank you for your posts. I have been to look today and you are all correct Gt Russel Street no longer exists. The area is all newer housing and where my husbands family lived is where the flats are on New John St West. Thanks again for your help.Angela.

Does anyone know please when and why Gt Russel Street was renamed Hospital Street,thanks Angela.

Hi Irene,Ann mentioned the Wiley Surname but i cant remamber why,i have asked Craig to clarify for me. I also have the Walker surname in my tree ,in 1874 , Duffield Derbyshire, George Walker B.1851 married Elizabeth Rollinson b.1855 . Elizabeth was the daughter of my great great...

Hi Irene,great news as today(Sunday 21st) i had a call from Ann and Craig. All is well,they had been on holliday at Anns other sons down South. We talked for ages and are going to meet up some time soon,thanks again for your help,Angela.

Hi Irene,thanks for your help it is much appreciated. I am sure your cousin Ann and son Craig must be the same people who contacted me and my sister when we were on holliday,since then we have had no contact,i hope we have not upset them in any way. We explained that we were not sure if...

Hi Irene,i have been on 1911 census and found an Arthur Weetman age 2 so born in 1909,living in Legge St Birmingam with brother James 10 and sister Lizzie 4. Parents are James Weetman 31, so born in1880 the same year as my James and Beatrice Weetman,nee Parker 29 b.1882. Do any of these...

Hi Irene,my Weetmans,7 boys,Harold,Horace,Alfred,Joseph,James,William and Frank. 4 girls Elizabeth,Ellen,Ada and the youngest my grandmother Florrie. Children born between 1870 and 1892,the 4 eldest may have a different mother. I know about the girls families but not the boys but i...

Hi Irene Angela here,thanks for your message. I have just spent half an hour writing a reply,it wouldnt send and now i have lost it urrrrrrrr. I dont know of an Arthur Weetman and i will write another message with what i do know. Thanks again,Angela.

Dear everyone,i also thought about calling it the old gun quarter or what about historic,must sign petition now as some of my ancestors were gun makers,Angela

Hi mikejee,could you possibly say where 218 Russell Street was in1891 and 1901 as my Brooks family were living there,thanks Angela.

Hi everyone,thanks for your input, as usuall really helpfull. I decided to look again at 1911 census via Genes Reunited and bingo question answered. Originally i only viewed transcribed details costing 10 credits,£1. Original census form cost 30 credits £3 but on viewing there it was Cole...

Hi everyone,on 1911 census my grandmother aged 19 and living in College Road Saltley is working at Co Dollman and T, trunk makers,has any one information about this firm,thanks Angela

Could Craig T please get in touch with Angela Burley or Linda Bailey re Weetman family as we are now back from holliday,thanks.Angela.

Mom lived at 147 Pretoria road which isnt mentioned on the Barra website.I have been to 147 and its the last one of a run of 11 terraced houses (mid terrace) i.e.127 to 147 that are completely different so i guess the whole 11 had to be demolished. There are other houses in the road also...

Dennis,do you have a map for Air raids on Bordsley Green,Pretoria Road to be specific as my mum was bombed out of there,thanks Angela.

Thanks Dennis,the map is very interesting,i see the balloons were where the Sedgmere Club is now. I am surprised so many bombs were dropped in such an unindustrialised area or was intimidation the whole point. My dads family lived in Wash Lane and a bomb dropped on the front steps of the corner...