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Thank you everybody for the pictures and information. I now know to look out for postcards showing the Elite cinema area. My mother told me her father had a full sized billiard table above the shop and used to entertain his friends there. Unfortunately he was too generous with (and too keen...
My grandfather, Arthur Howells owned and ran a furniture shop at 131 and 133 Soho Road Birmingham. He was listed as a cabinet maker and upholsterer. He was born in 1871 and married in 1897. The 1911 census shows him and his family living above the shops and as far as I have been able to...