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    Scouting in Rubery - early 1900s

    Hello, In 1911 Herbert (later Lord) Austin told his private secretary Bobby Howitt to “form a scout group - for the benefit of the local community.” Although known as 1st Lickey, they were also known (for obvious reasons!) as the “Austin Troop”. Logical, as the Longbridge works was expanding...
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    Winson Green Mental Hospital And Rubery Hill Asylum

    A very sad discovery in my family history was the treatment of Betsy Jones, sister of my great grandad Frank Jones. She was deemed to be a "congenital idiot" and placed in the Winson Green mental hospital in 1878, then the new Rubery Hill Asylum in 1882. On becoming an inmate her records state...
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    TB Sanatorium 1940's

    Hi, does anyone know of an old TB sanitorium that may have been in the Sheldon area during WW2. My mother was in such a place at that time but I cannot remember where it was, she may have been in a hospital in Sheldon - or I may have it totally wrong and her friend was a Nurse Sheldon...
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