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Does anyone remember the cafe run by the Dawkins family at 53a Highgate Road on the corner with Kyrwicks Lane.
It was founded by Louisa Jane Dawkins, known as Jenny, as the Dawkins Cafe about 1914 and run by her until she retired after World War 2. It was then taken over by her son Fred...
I'm looking for information about the Loveday family that ran the newsagents at 316 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath from about 1905 to about 1945.
The parents were Charles and Amelia Loveday and they had 7 children
Constance Loveday
William Loveday who married Alice Evans
Fanny (Daisy) Loveday...
Lorenzo Field married my wife's great grandfather William Dawkins' step sister and appears to have started William in his trade as photographic equipment maker. William and his family lived at 37 Cox Street West. I don't have anything on Lorenzo other than what's on the censuses but I have been...