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I would say it was about three to four hundred yards from the old trolly bus terminus, as I remember it. Nick

Just found this. Tigar (sic) Island first appears in the 1891 Census as the home of the Burgess family; Thomas Burgess was employed as a gamekeeper, presumably at nearby Elmdon Hall. (My thanks to Les Homer for pointing this out. He can remember a cottage of that name on the site of the...

Tigers Island was defiantly past the old terminus, there used to be two cottages opposite each other there. Nick

Its not only Birmingham. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/10/uk-lost-200-libraries-2012

We referred to the cage on the front of Trams as Cow catchers, they made a loud noise when they came down, I remember seeing a dog caught in one on Garrison lane.

There is a reference to Gravelly hill canal cottage's on this site. https://www.members.iinet.net.au/~gncellis@froggy.com.au/Written%20memories%20of%20an%20early%201900%27s%20childhood%20in%20Gravelly%20Hill,%20Erdington.html

Hi Ian, I'd be interested in seeing you picture of Parkdale Rd party. we've lived in Parkdale since 1962. Nick

I found this James Turner on the 1851 census, James TURNER Head M 59 M Button Maker Birmm-WAR Ann Maria TURNER Wife M 58 F --- Birmm-WAR Ann Maria TURNER Daur U 32 F --- Birmm-WAR Helen TURNER Daur U 30 F --- Birmm-WAR...

I posted two pictures of the school on here. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=41524&highlight=silvermere+school

I was surprised to find I joined October 6th, 2002. Time flies as they say. Nick

I think the chip shop is now a curry house, and they knocked the pub down and its now an Aldi supermarket

Michael, I think the barracks you mention, was for Cavalry regiments, and would have had no connection to the Warwickshire's Nick

There was a driving test centre in that area, I remember taking my daughter there.

Interesting to see that 'horse less carriage' I can't see then becoming very popular though.

On the 1851 census John Clark is a lodger. Name Relationship Mar Age Sex Occupation Birthplace Mary JENKINS Head U 36 F Ironmonger Birmingham-WAR John JENKINS Neph - 6 M --- Houndsditch-MID John CLARK Lodg U 37 M...

I left about 1944, went to Ada Road.

I remember going on a caravan holiday and being sent to the shop on site for I think a loaf of bread, as soon has I spoke the woman who ran the shop said “tell your mother we have Birmingham milk {sterra} in stock. Nick

I remember being taken to that Bank from Tilton Rd School to open an account, we’d started of with a small book that you could put small amounts in till you’d got a Pound, then we were taken there and opened an account with a £1 Nick

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I've posted pictures before on here, not sure why this one doesn't work.