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  1. deborahzeborah

    Bearwood Road Infant School

    Hello, my Grandmother Sylvia Hawkins attended Bearwood Road Infant School in the 1930s and saved some of their class photographs. I've recently had these scanned and so thought there could be some interest from this forum of seeing the photographs - and perhaps even finding some relatives in the...
  2. ellbrown

    Lightwoods Park, Bearwood

    I went to Bearwood today, and went into Lightwoods Park. It is now run by Sandwell, after 100 plus years under Birmingham. I found a drinking fountain, bandstand, and a derelict house under scaffolding.
  3. W

    York Wade Geoffrey of Barnsley Rd

    This is my grandfather. Geoffrey was born in 1902 while his family were living living at 253 Dudley Rd (I think!). His parents were Alfred M (b1862 Newport; d1907) and Amy (b1868, nee Parkinson; remarried 1913 Tom Robinson; d1952). He first married a Russian emigree, Lydia (or Leeda) Garkina (or...
    • waderg
    • Thread
    • bearwood moseley parkinson robinson wade
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    • Forum: U - Z
  4. W

    Parkinson Amy of Sandon Rd

    This is my great grandmother. In 1891 Amy was living at 14 Sandon Rd Edgbaston with her parents William (b1844 South Shields; a schools inspector; died 1903) and Eliza (b1845 Chelsea; d1935), and siblings Edith and Thomas Maynard, a bank clerk (he emigrated to South Africa, as had an elder...
    • waderg
    • Thread
    • barnsley bearwood parkinson sandon wade
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: M - P
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