map request

[Astoness]

hi mike...when you have time could you post a map to pinpoint court 29 hospital st please...

thank you mike..

lyn

 

[mikejee]

Lyn
Only just been able to det round to it. court 29 in red . the 1889 map shows 6 houses in the row behind the house on the street. plus an extra one behind the street house on the other side of the entrance

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[Astoness]

never any rush mike...thanks for the map..

cheers

lyn

 

[Sully]

Hi Mike,

I hope I'm talking to the right man here - if I'm not my apologies and Merry Christmas anyway!

My great grandfather was a policeman in Aston between 1885 and his death in service in 1903. The censuses and other info give me various addresses in the area - Duddeston Mill Road in 1891, Argyle Avenue in 1901, Lime Terrace Witton Road in 1911 and Nechells Park Road in 1915 and 1918. Could you point me in the direction of a large scale map that would give me house positions for the first three please. The house in Nechells Park Road is still there and seemingly well maintained.

Many thanks

Steve

 

[mikejee]

Sully
You are not very likely to be able to find a map with the positions of partticular house numbers on it. They
can usually be worked out , however, and if you give me the exact numbers of the houses I will see what I can do
mike

 

[Sully]

Mike,

Numbers are as follows:

1891: 122, Duddeston Mill Road
1901: 10, Argyle Avenue (I've been to Argyle Street and presume the Avenue was close by. All now under commercial developments of course).
1911: 5, Lime Terrace, Witton Road


Thanks very much

Steve

 

[mikejee]

Sully
Below are three maps. to get them all on one map would not be possible un;ess the houses were so small you wouldn't see them, but I think you should have no trouble placing them as I have included on maps roads that are still there.
Argyle Avenue is, like some otthe similar places in Birmingham , not, as you would expect, a road, but a court/terrace leading off Argyle st. They houses are back to backs, and those definitely in argyle Avenue are in red. the one in blue, I am not clear as to whether theyare included in the avenue or not, but cannot find another terrace nearby that seems to fit. the green houses would be listed in Wharton St. Not sure of the numbering
No 122 duddeston mill road is marked in red.
Lime terrace is in red. I think, but am not sure no 5 would be theone i have amrked in a darker red-brown
Mike

 

[anvil man]

Mjkejee,
I've just come across thread and realize you are the Birmingham road map man. I wonder if you could find me a map showing Victoria Place HallamSt Balsall Heath?
I have recntly come across a telegram sent to my late mother from a friend wishing her a happy 21st bithday in 1928 and would be appreciate your help.

 

[mikejee]

Victoria place was a row of six houses, marked in red on the c 1903 map below.Edward Road is the road across the middle of the map

 

[anvil man]

Mikejee,
Thank you so much for the time you have spent on my request, wonderfull. I can tell my sister now, we are both into the early life of my mother,, who through shear hard work, like so many people in those days, escaped from poverty to live a rounded life.

 

[Wonderhorse]

Hi

Is it still possible to find a map of the lower end of Duddeston Mill Road, perhaps relating to the 60's and before. I lived there in old victorian housing then and sadly with it all gone and industrial warehousing now, there seems precious little information about that housing. I was too young to remember the name of the shared tenement yard where our house would have been.

Thank you either way.

Les

 

[mikejee]

Below is a map c 1950 showing Duddeston Mill road. Its a bit bitty, but will show you numbers etc if you save and click on it

 

[Astoness]

hi les aside from mikes map have you looked at the electoral rolls on ancestry for the exact address where you lived..if you are not subscribed to it just give us the names of your parents and someone will look it up for you

lyn

 

[Wonderhorse]

hi les aside from mikes map have you looked at the electoral rolls on ancestry for the exact address where you lived..if you are not subscribed to it just give us the names of your parents and someone will look it up for you

lyn

Hi Lyn

Only late reply by a few years, lol. Looks lime the address was 135/2 Duddeston Mill Road? My parents were Thomas (Tommy) Champion and my mother Alyson.

If anyone could find anything I'd be right chuffed.

Les

 

[mikejee]

As the map is difficult to read have marked 2 back 135 in rd on the map

 

[Astoness]

to go with mikes map photos here of duddeston mill road in the 60s and todays view.. the 60s photo shows the manor arms pub on the left corner at no 58

lyn