pjmburns
master brummie
Try here; https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=4830
If that is what you meant.
Janice
If that is what you meant.
Janice
Wendy,
According to my Church guide book (about 5+ years old now), there are 5 windows in the South Aisle - all 'bested viewed on a sunny day'.
The last (5th) is the risen Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene on the first Easter morning. It was given in memory of George and Mary Paerks(?!) of Perry Barr, and is dated December 26th 1892. so it should still be there.
Brian
Here's a lovely photo of Key Hill Cemetery. I am not sure of the date possibly the 1940's. I still can't believe that that wonderful chapel was demolished in the 1960's
Found him. Many thanks, what a brilliant tool. BTW Windows 10 won't download it, but Google Chrome will.If you go here https://bmsgh-shop.org.uk/BIRM-Cemeteries you can download a list of Key Hill, Handsworth, Witton and Warstone Lane burials. The reference numbers are for the BMSGH site only and a re not grave references although you can work out if graves were common ones. If you add a bit more info such as dob or death dates and full names people will look for you.
Found him. Many thanks, what a brilliant tool. BTW Windows 10 won't download it, but Google Chrome will.hi franny quite possible if they died in that area...they could be buried at warstone lane or key hill cemeteries...they are next to each other..burial records for both are now online here is the link to it...hope you find them please let us know
lyn
https://www.jqrt.org/
Witton! And the wife! 1916 and 1891oh thats great franny...was he at warstone lane or key hill
There is an interesting article posted on the Blog...Notes from 19th Century Birmingham, concerning "Mount Misery" a term given to the area at Key Hill and the Cemetery.
https://birminghamhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/mount-misery/
Donna quotes from Showell's Dictionary of 1885...
"Mount Misery.– At the close of the great war, which culminated at Waterloo, it was long before the blessings of peace brought comfort to the homes of the poor. The first effects of the sheathing of the sword was a collapse in prices of all kinds, and a general stagnation of trade, of which Birmingham made prosperous through the demands for its guns, &c., felt the full force. Bad trade was followed by bad harvests, and the commercial history of the next dozen years is but one huge chronicle of disaster, shops and mills closing fast, and poverty following faster. How to employ hundreds of able-bodied men dependent on the rates, was a continual puzzle to the Overseers, until someone, wise in his generation, hit upon the plan of paying the unfortunates to wheel sand from the bank then in front of Key Hill House up to the canal side, a distance of 1 1/2 miles, the payment being at the rate of one penny per barrow load. This fearful ‘labour test’ was continued for a long time, and when we reckon that each man would have to wheel his barrow backwards and forwards for nearly 20 miles to earn a shilling, moving more than a ton of sand in the process, we cannot wonder at the place receiving such a woeful name as Mount Misery."
I have added as a comment the reference made by Thomas Atwood MP to the Commons in 1834 which has slightly different figures.