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You may well be right. Doesn't seem likely that a successful entrepreneur was also a music hall entertainer! but then Wiki should always be taken with a pinch of salt!

From an auction catalogue: A View of Lifford Hall, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the Residence of Mr Dobbs, with a spectacular Captain Cook's Pine in the foreground Other notes: Thomas Dobbs bought Lifford Hall in 1789; he was an engineer who constructed both the Birmingham to Worcester and the...

Well they are back at a cost of 2.5 million pounds based at new stables at Tally Ho. Rather odd when a previous W.M chief constable said there is no place in modern policing for mounted officers and promptly abolished them.

See also Stirchley High Street. Perhaps merge? I worked in Stirchley briefly in the early 1970s and what an interesting place it was. Little changed over the decades. Lots of interesting small shops - fascinating! Two phots from D.J. Norton collection. Church of the Ascension just in view...

Curious about this. Was this the building [corner of Exeter and Hubert Road] or anyone know what it was originally?

Graces Guide for 1918 gives T. Cadby & Sons at 389/397 Farm Street.

Came across an explore of the old building in 2022 on the "28 days later" site - may be of interest? https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/powell-gunsmiths-birmingham-march-2022.132837/

I think it could well be James Watt's house. This is from Bill Darque's site: Harpur's Hills: first record 1772 Harpers Hill from Samuel Smiles 1865 'Lives of Boulton and Watt' a work now out-of-copyright downloaded from Grace's Guide website. Harpers Hill, the rising ground at the top of...

Very confusing to have info about two distinct colleges that happen to share the same name on the same thread. Here's some notes about the Edgbaston Greenmore College: MOSELEY MEMORIES by Susan Smith, nee Bromilow – April 2022 My mother’s parents were married on 6 July 1909 from the family...

Taunton Road/Stoney Lane junction area was originally in Worcs. but became part of Birmingham under Greater Birmingham Act in 1911.

Another view of Brighton Road. About 1910. I'm curious about the building on the extreme right. Can't quite read the inscription over entrance. Any thoughts? Looking towards the railway bridge.

Would it help if this thread was amalgamated with "Black Sabbath"? Lot of overlap?

Just watched Midlands Today reporting on Ozzie Day in Brum. Just brilliant. Come on guys, stop knocking what he achieved both for heavy metal and for Birmingham. He is now - not just some historical figure - long may his fame continue..................

Ozzy Day set to honour Birmingham's famous son Birmingham icon Ozzy Osbourne is to be celebrated in the city on the anniversary of his death, with a special day of live music and events. The Prince of Darkness, from Aston, died on 22 July last year, less than three weeks after Black Sabbath's...

Came across this wonderful photo of Chamberlain Square before it was "altered". No date but prewar sometime? It came from this site https://www.tuckdbephemera.org/items?q=birmingham Well worth a visit. Only 12 phots of BHam but what an archive of postcards, views etc.

As mentioned, this was opened by Erdington U.D.C. to be inherited by Birmingham in 1912. Similar to on the south side when BHam also inherited the Kings Norton & Northfield U.D.C. libraries. Birmingham has never had a good record of library provision or of maintaining what it has. I won't even...

I wonder if folks think it would be helpful to have a thread called New Birmingham Books where members can post details of new Birmingham books? Not just books? Perhaps pamphlets etc.? Could bring to a wider audience? Here's two I recently came across: 1. Wordsworth [Diane]: The Life of...

Library of BHam definitely the best place for them Incidentally Rudders were also a slate & tile merchants. Good account on Graces Guide at RUDDERS & PAYNES, LIMITED,: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1914_Who%27s_Who_in_Business:_Company_R

The origins of the esteemed maker known as William Devenport began in early Victorian England in 1837. The firm was founded by Joseph Whitton after whom it was named. When William Devenport became a partner it was styled as Whitton & Devenport. Later on this jewellery concern was known as...

Caption on Moseley Society website: Ghost sign - Upton's Grocers & Provisions Warehouse The first ghost sign we see is above Rice Chamberlain's Estate Agents, 27-29 St Mary's Row. In a good light it is just possible to read 'Upton's Grocers & Provisions Warehouse'. The proprietor James Upton is...