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  1. Godber

    A little row of shops

    Commenting on another subject has prompted me to post this thread. Just up the road from my childhood home in the 70s was a row of ten shops on Yarningale Road. Starting at one end there was a bookies, then a tiny chemist, then what we called the bread shop (no baking onsite as I recall, it was...
  2. Godber

    Kings Heath telephone box photo

    A few years ago (before I was a member of this site) while looking online for old photographs of Kings Heath, I came across a picture of a middle aged chap making a call from the telephone box on Kings Heath High Street, right by E A Darlaston’s newsagent near the Kingsway Cinema. I think he was...
  3. kerryday2802

    Anyone remember Joseph Day

    Hi all. Hoping someone can help. My father, no longer with us, attended Wheelers Lane school, Kings Heath. I'm unsure if he went to the infant, junior and Senior but he lived on Sunderton Road until enlisting in the army late 1950s and i'm sure he at least attended the junior, but most likely...
  4. Two

    Kings Heath Park.

    Kings Heath Park. #1 - Kings Heath Park. #2 - Kings Heath Park. #3 - Kings Heath Park. #4 - Kings Heath Park - 1915. #5 - Kings Heath Park - 1938. #6 - Kings Heath Park. - Pool.
  5. A

    Old Maps of Brum - in Colour!

    Hi, thanks for accepting me as a member. In my spare time I decided an interesting project would be to digitise the various tithe maps (originally produced 1838—1845) of the area of Birmingham that used to be in Worcestershire, including the land use and names of the land parcels as they appear...
  6. K

    Faulkner Bros Brewery

    Hi all, I am looking for someone who knows where I can get hold of a stone demijohn/flagon for a brewers who were based in Moseley/Kings Heath. They were called Faulkner Bros and were around up until around 1955 I believe. I have already seen a post regarding this brewery and have posted there...
  7. O

    Bank Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7RH

    Hello everyone, I live on Bank Street, Kings Heath b14, and I'd love it if anyone out there could give me any historical facts and photos of this street which s situatec off High Street and was originally the site of Kings Heath brewery!
  8. P

    Cole Family (and Sarjant)

    Hi :) One of my 'surname interests' for Birmingham is 'Cole;: My great grandmother was Rose Cole. She was born in Leamington, or thereabouts, in around 1885 and lived most of her adult life in Kings Heath. She married George Sarjant from Aston. His sister Lilian married her brother Ernest...
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