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Low Wood Harborne

JudyTink

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I have today found my great Aunt Elsie on the 1921 Census (currently free on FMP). Her description is Nurse at Low Wood Harborne. Can anyone help me with a question. What was this place and is it still standing please?
Judy
 
I have today found my great Aunt Elsie on the 1921 Census (currently free on FMP). Her description is Nurse at Low Wood Harborne. Can anyone help me with a question. What was this place and is it still standing please?
Judy
Looks to be still standing and is a listed building - 32 AND 32A, ST MARY'S ROAD B17


And on Google Streetview...

 
Looking it up - The house once belonged to John Reynolds, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and had a huge telescope in the garden. See the third page of this article...


Looking at an aerial view on Google it looks like the dome built to house the telescope(s) is still in the garden!

Dome.JPG
John Reynold's seemed to have owned the house until at least 1924 - So perhaps your great Aunt was a "private" nurse there to look after an elderly relative?
 
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