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    Clock dealers in Birmingham

    One of my ancestors was a Thomas Rudd, born Feb 1809. He became a clock and watchmaker in Dudley, starting at Castle Street in 1836, then in Wolverhampton Street from 1841 to 1850, and in 1850 in Market Place. He must have had a good deal of competition: eleven other clock and watchmakers are...
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    Lozells Institution and The Lozells

    I ask because a peripheral relative by marriage died aged 21 in 1849 and the death notice in the Leamington Spa Courier of August 4 1849 just said "DIED... at the Lozells, Handsworth, Robert Abbotts Lingard". I wondered if this meant there was an institution, eg mental hospital, named The...
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    Can anyone identify this Birmingham house, please?

    Can anyone identify this Birmingham house, please? It was almost certainly in Aston / Ladywood, and maybe on Moseley Road?
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