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Birmingham Bakers outing

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This photo is of a group of Birmingham bakers at an outing to a hotel in Yardley. The only people I can identify are, the gentleman sitting on the left is David Jennings he was my great grandfathers brother and lived in Farm Street. The man behind him is Robert Westwood his son in law who had a bakery in New John Street West (I have a photo of his shop).

I am not sure of the date of the photo, although David died in 1901 after the census.

I wonder if anyone can spot an ancestor?
 
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Birmingham Baker's Outing

Hi Wendy, the hotel looks like The Swan Hotel, Yardley, before it was redeveloped a couple of times, now demolished.
 
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Hello Sylviasayers, I did not know there was a previous Swan Yardley, so yes you could be right it looks quite a grand place. Thanks for that because the only information I had was a hotel in Yardley.
 
Wendy said:
This photo is of a group of Birmingham bakers at an outing to a hotel in Yardley. The only people I can identify are, the gentleman sitting on the left is David Jennings he was my great grandfathers brother and lived in Farm Street. The man behind him is Robert Westwood his son in law who had a bakery in New John Street West (I have a photo of his shop).

I am not sure of the date of the photo, although David died in 1901 after the census.

I wonder if anyone can spot an ancestor?
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Wendy,
I also was born in Handsworth Greenhill Rd, where were you born?
I also have Hodgetts in my tree,
John Scott Hodgetts married Elizabeth Bibb in 1869
If there is a connection would you like to correspond?
 
I was born in Yardley in 1929 and i saw 4 different Swan pubs the last one had what was claimed to be the longest bar in Europe? and that was all there was inside the pub, the photo looks as though it was taken at the back of the pub where there was a Crown Bowling Green, nice flower beds and an orchard where we kids living in Charles Edward Rd would go scrumping, Hardings was on the opposite corner to The Swan pub.
 
My dad worked for Harding Bakery in the late 1950's and we lived in a back to back house next to the bakery in Milton Crescent.
 
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