smethwick

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Hello, I am currently researching The Grove Cinema, now a bathroom shop, on Dudley Road. If you have any information/photos/memories I would be really grateful. Thank you!

Hello, I've been reading this forum for quite a few months and have learned a great deal from the forum about life in Birmingham, which has brought to life a lot of interesting stories about how my family lived. So I would firstly like to thank everyone for their fascinating contributions! I'm...

This 1985 sculpture in Smethwick is the Memorial to the Boulton and Watt Governor. Sculpted by Francis Gomila.

Photos of the new Sikh Soldier statue in Smethwick. The previously reported vandalism has been removed when I went to see it. Poppy wreaths left over from the Armistice 100 weekend

Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone can help, I couldn't find anything in the archives on this. One branch of my family lived on the Dudley Road in Smethwick throughout the 1840's, the 1851 census shows them in a property next in the schedule to a "Heath Green House". I assume this would have been...

I went to Smethwick recently and while there, got photos of buildings on Rolfe Street, but know nothing about them (not sure if this is the right place to post this thread) Star Window Co Ltd - 16 Rolfe Street, Smethwick Smethwick Enterprise Centre - Rolfe Street, Smethwick Rolfe House -...

I am looking for any records/relations of a Clara W Smith born Smethwick abt 1880. The initial W I believe stands for Winifred. Parents: Jesse Smith and Francis Harriet Smith (nee Walton) 2 brothers: Henry Edward Smith and Oliver Roland Smith Possibly married: 1907 to Thomas Connor or...