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Courtyards and yards of brum
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Going back to post #713 where Dave (Padgo) was looking for a map showing 6 Court , Price Street.
This picture shows it, i don't know the year but must be some years after your relatives left. i would guess the houses looked exactly the same but i don't know which would be No1. Moss
This picture shows it, i don't know the year but must be some years after your relatives left. i would guess the houses looked exactly the same but i don't know which would be No1. Moss
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moss thats a cracking photo of court 6 im sure ive not seen this before..i think court 6 was also known as dairy terrace...maybe mike could confirm this..here is the map mike sent me of dairy terrace and it looks to be in the position as court 6 which is shown on post 713....sorry mike cant seem to post the dairy terrace map
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Yes court 6 was also called Dairy terrace. I think most named courts also had a number and which was used seems arbitrary and sometimes to vary over time. Sometimes, in streets that are combined with other streets (not talking about Price St) then a name would deliberately be used, as otherwise there would sometimes be two courts with hte same number in the same street
quite possible mike...i was only thinking it could have been taken looking looking towards price st as i can see what looks like an entrance on the left in the pic moss posted...couldnt see anyway through to vesey st from dairy terrace on either of the 2 maps...its not that important though as just to have the photo is good enough
lyn
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Actually, on looking again at the map at #714 I think it might have been looking towards Price st, as , on the map there are two larger buildings on the left at the far end looking towards Price St, and this would agree with the bigger block on the left of the picture at the far end
great photo phil it looks right to me..if you look at the pic of court 6 also known as dairy terrace on post 722 the bottom windows are identical also check out mikes terrace map on post 714...i would say that again your pic is looking towards price st...im saving this one as well as pics of price st are very few and far between..
lyn
lyn
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Hi everyone, Thanks for all the info re Alma Terrace...but to throw confusion into the mix ...the Alma Terrace I am looking at (home to my husband Johns grandparents ) is in the 1922 and 1925 electoral rolls (on Ancestry) which has 7 houses and precedes Victoria Terrace and is after 136 Sherbourne Road....down also as Sparkbrook but that boundary may have changed over time ...are we talking about the same place ? (First assumption that the ER were done in some sort of geographical order !)
Felen
Felen
hello patzarina glad you like this thread..my 3x gt grandfather was also at heneage st st in 1841..if you go to the heneage st thread i think there maybe one or two photos
lyn
Wow, I lived the first 2 years of my life at 1/57 Freeth Street, thanks for the picture (I know you posted it ages ago!)
Dennis Williams
Gone but not forgotten
Brasshouse Passage and 1889 Map......for Hammer....
Thanks to Mikejee and also to Dennis for the pictures. The fellow who lived here was a chair maker (as opposed to chain maker) - I've had to be quite careful not jumping to conclusions about occupation. I know that chain-making was a key industry here but prior to 1851 census, he had been a chair maker in Lombard Street, Birmingham and also in Dudley. And seems still chair maker in 1851 in Brass House Passage. So somehow he was managing to find room to make these chairs (wife a straw hat maker) in what must have been very cramped conditions.