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My apologies if this is an inappropriate request to make. I am not based anywhere near Birmingham but I would dearly love to retrieve a photograph of the grave of 3 people buried in the same plot. I do not know if the same headstone was used for all 3, the first died in the 1930s, the third in...

Burial records for relative in 1931 was 7 Back 23 Latimer Street, death certificate for one also expressed as 7 back 23 Latimer Street, the 1921 census records address of 7/23. The 1925 electoral register however, slap in the middle of these other data points, lists them (Shayler) at 23 then 7...

A quick question from one unfamiliar with the back to back layout but fascinated to learn more of my family history in Birmingham... the maps i have form the era I'm looking at (1900-30) don't give me much indication as to whether the back to backs on Latimer Street and Irving Street were...

Hi there, I posted this under a different threat concerning buildings and got no repsonse, thought I might have a little more luck here! I am ooking ideall for photos, or any working knowledge, of a doctors surgery at 106-108 Hurst Street. In 1901 it was a Surgery run by Robert Wilson Taylor...

This is a long shot but does anyone have access to / ever seen photos of Hurst Street specifically around no 106? In 1901 it was a Surgery run by Robert Wilson Taylor Haddow, who had been in Birmingham (born in Scotland) for some years at that point and continued to be for some years after. I...

Hello everyone, firstly I would like to give my thanks as always for anyone who has helped me on a previous thread and anyone responding to this new line of enquiry. I was hoping to do some reading on life in the back to backs in the period 1900-1931, ideally memoirs. Has anyone read anything...

Hi there, A little known branch of my family appear to have moved to Birminghamd and based themselves in Latimer Street almost exclusively from approx. 1901-1939. does anyone know which school children living in that area might have attended? is it fair to assume the school(s) is/are no longer...

Looking at some members of my family tree who settled in Birmingham in 1901 from rural Oxfordshire, I can see that a significant number of the households in the surrounding properties on Hurst Street seemed to be Russian, yet so far I haven't been able to fund a lot of good resources to...

I am working on the life of an ancestor who lived mainly in the South West of England and had quite a chequered past, I have found several newspaper accounts of court convictions and appearances. However she moved to Birmingham around 1901 and lived there fore three decades and I haven't found...

Hi there, I found evidence of relatives having lived around 1900-1930 in Hurst St then in the Latimer Street back to backs, another reference to Irving Street. Were any of these locations anywhere near to Great King Street? It is hard to tell given many of the older locations no longer exist...