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    Wilfred Albert Bedson

    According to my husband his grandfather was something of a hero. He was a Birmingham tram driver who saved someones life (lying across the tram track) and was subsequently awarded a set of three leather bound works of Shakespeare by the then mayor of Birmingham. These books were originally...
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    Local Newspaper headlines August 1914...Post?Mail?

    Hi there, I am looking for a front page picture of birmingham Post/Mail/othe for the announcement of the outbreak of war in 1914...i am not having much luck. There must be a picture on the internet somewhere....but i can't find one...can anyone help? I have tried the Newspaper Archives to no...
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