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an interesting historical document probably relating to 15 Johnson Street, Nechells

In looking at the OS maps from the late 1800s and the area around St Mary's Church where my ancestor David Mountford lived (Bath Street) I noticed the Prize Gun Works on the Loveday Street side. My ancestors were Gun Percussioners (both David and his son William Page) and so I am tempted to...

my 3 x great grandfather Patrick Fenton (born 1816 in Ireland) died in an accident on NSS on 13th September 1868 - here is an extract from a newspaper article at the time ... "On sunday afternoon, Patrick Fenton (52) painter St George's Street, met with his death in a shocking manner at the...

My nan's sister Rose Lilian Phillips (nee Parlett) was soprano on this evening supported by her brother Fred on piano (a WW1 veteran who spent a night injured on the somme and lost a leg as a result) plus a few others beside. I wonder if anyone is related to any of the "turns" appearing that...

One of my grandad's uncles Robert Jones fought in the Boer War and brought back with him a sword that has the number F2 82 8H19 inscribed on it. I have not been able to find his war record as there are simply too many Robert or R Jones listed on ancestry but wondered if this inscription might...

At least two generations of my Jones lineage were malsters. Thomas born in Tipton c1833 is regularly described as such in censuses and marriage / birth certificates that or a labourer to a malster. He moved to Hockley in the late 1860s. His father William was also a malster born around 1800...

A very sad discovery in my family history was the treatment of Betsy Jones, sister of my great grandad Frank Jones. She was deemed to be a "congenital idiot" and placed in the Winson Green mental hospital in 1878, then the new Rubery Hill Asylum in 1882. On becoming an inmate her records state...

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/13811590/family gun percussion's (Mountford) masters and milk dealers (Jones) paper hangers and decorators (Fentons)

My great aunty Rose had a green grocers shop in the 1930s on Great Hampton Row which she ran with her husband Percy Phillips. Would be great if there were a photo of it out there somewhere!

The Pilgrims Tavern and the Dolphin are two that were definitely there as I have a map that shows them both but my mom is certain that there was one on every corner. Any suggestions as to what the others were called and if there are any photos anywhere?

In the 1860s a small family escaped from the jewish persecution in Poland and came to England in the bottom of a coal boat (so family legend has it) living 1st in Chesterfield (maybe came into the port at Hull) and soon thereafter in Birmingham where they changed their name to Phillips. Jacob...

My wife's nan lived on Village Road in the days when the travelling fair used to set up in the grounds of Aston Hall. One year the porcupine escaped and found its way into her back yard - not knowing what it was she through the tin bath over it scaring it into ejecting its spines which...