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    Emigration from Birmingham to New Zealand and ANZACs

    My Great Uncle Jack, (John Shaw) b.1890 and Great Uncle Tom (Tom Shaw) b.1900 emigrated to New Zealand. Jack must have emigrated around 1910 and came back with the ANZACs and was killed in France in 1916. Tom also joined the ANZACs. He may have travelled to New Zealand during the war and...
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    Itinerant photographers

    All the photos I have of my family before 1930 were either taken in studios or by itinerant photographers, who would set up there tripods in the streets and develop pictures in a few minutes. Many pictures were taken at doorsteps in good weather. They also worked in parks, at beaches and other...
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    View-Well TV rentaks

    My Uncle Albert Milton was the co-owner of a chain of View-Well TV rental stores from the mid-1950s to the mid 1960s in working class High Streets in Birmingham, Dudley Road for example. I believe he sold them to Rediffusion. Would anyone have any information? Many thanks, John Milton
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