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Re: William Henry Goode b.1865
Good Morning Steve, There is new thread connected to Chas Ed Rd, Mr & Mrs.Neale, lived in No28, they owned the Fish & Chip shop round to the left from Charles Edward Rd on the Coventry Rd towards The Swan pub, your Grt/Grt/Grandparents may have bought Fish &...
Do my eyes deceive me but it looks as if the headlights are fitted with WW2 blackout deflectors right or wrong, i don`t have a clue were the garage is!!, super photo. Len
Hi Kathy, The St Bernards Grange as it today 04/10/2010 spent many happy times in there at concerts etc circa late 1960`s/70`s its has been refurbished since then. Len.
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Good Morning June, Do you have this its from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Len. Goode, Victor Raymond, Serjeant, 7349720, 31/05/1940, 29, Royal Army Medical Corp, United Kingdom, Column 142. DUNKIRK MEMORIAL. Len.
Re: William Henry Goode b.1865
Hi Steve, Taken in the garden of No3 circa 1949, the Anderson Shelter has been dug up and they are standing on the site. No 1 garden is behind them, L-R, my Mom Jessie Emma, sister in law Mary Copsey and Marys Aunt (a lovely Lady) who brought her up from the age...
Originaly posted by Phil. percy's Clock The clock that stood above the old market offices in the Bull Ring until it was bombed on the night of 25/26 August 1940 was affectionately known as “Percy’s Clock”.
The clock was built in 1883 by W. Potts of Leeds and was...
ETRAHXZ, The Market Clock was known as Percy Shurmers clock because he cajoled Birmingham Business Men to donate money to have it made and positioned in the Market Hall for all to enjoy, it was destroyed in the Blitz when the Market Hall was bombed, after the WW2 ended Percy raised the question...
Topsy, Contact Biddle & Webb auctioneers, Ladywood they are in the phone book i don`t think they deal in them but could tell you of some one who does. Len.
Re: William Henry Goode b.1865
stv1x, The man wearing the Top Hat is not Henry Goode, to tall and not smartly dressed enough, will think about the Weaver family. Len.