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  1. miffyarcturus

    WINSON GREEN CANAL HOUSES

    Does anyone have any information in regards to the canal houses. Address 36 and 97 canal house, winson green, Birmingham, UK These canal houses on the winson green junction on the corner of the New BCN line and the old soho loop. I want to know who built it and when it was built. who were the...
    • miffyarcturus
    • Thread
    • bcn birmingham canal house canal houses winson green
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Homes
  2. www.midlandspubs.co.uk

    Warwick Arms - Dudley Road

    Titus Mason, founder of Mason's pop, hatched his masterplan of world domination in the soft drinks market at this pub. See : https://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/dudley-road/warwick-arms.htm
  3. Rob Derry

    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...
  4. M

    McGrath and Smith Birmingham

    I have hit a brick wall with my gt.grandmother’s family. Her name was Mary Jane McGrath her mother was Welsh, maiden name Llewellyn who was a free lance cook and her father was a soldier who came from Waterford in Ireland. He deserted from the army and cut his face out of all the family photos...
    • Morris Dancer
    • Thread
    • mcgrath smith winson green
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: M - P
  5. R

    Kirby family (between 1891 and 1911)

    I have only recently started to research my family and with the help of the 1911 census have found that my Great Grandfather James Kirby and his brother John Kirby spent time in Winson Green Prison. It would appear (waiting for confirmation) that they both had been in trouble with the police...
    • Ryan
    • Thread
    • kirby ladywood winson green
    • Replies: 99
    • Forum: I - L
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