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Hi! I am from the US so don’t know the area well but am researching the history of the first manufacturer of photographic negatives, Dr. Richard Hill Norris. He had a factory first in Birmingham on Litchfield Road. But later in 1880 he built a facility in Stechford. Advertisements state that...
Hello everybody,
I'm researching my family tree and have found what I believe to be my g-g-grandfather:
Henry EDKINS, b. abt 1857 Yardley, Worcestershire
In the 1901 census, in Stuarts Road, Stechford, his employment is listed as
"Foreman Yardley R W Council".
From the original image on...