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In 1908 the Registrar of BMD for Birmingham was at 23 Lozells Street.
In 1908 the Registrar of BMD for Kings Norton was at 280 High Street, Smethwick

From Kelly's Directory of Birmingham & Suburbs for 1908 - quite a way out of the centre though.

Maurice
 
My late Wife and I were married by special licence in December 1952 at the registrar office, I'm sure it was in Edmund Street. Eric
 
I know Lozells Street quite well, my family coming from Lozells. I would therefore assume it was the Registrar himself who lived at number 23. Co-incidence or what a relative of mine according to the Electoral Rolls was living at 23 Lozells Street, in 1955.
 
I'll take this a stage further. In 1913 there appears to be a number of small offices for the registration of births and deaths, but not marriages. But marriage and the Superintendant Registrar was on the corner of Cornwall Street in the Edmund Street area. I'm guessing that the marriages took place in this latter office. This was the time when Birmingham was being amalgamated from a number of different places that had previously had their own offices.

Much later directories listed the Registrar on the pages of Council offices. In these earlier directories you have to dig for them by searching for Registrar and Marriages.

Maurice
 
If you put your question into the search engine for the Forum there was a discussion some years ago where the finding was Newhall Street from 1903 to 1915 I think it said. A members grandparent was the Registrar.
 
Kathsutton46 said:
I know Lozells Street quite well, my family coming from Lozells. I would therefore assume it was the Registrar himself who lived at number 23. Co-incidence or what a relative of mine according to the Electoral Rolls was living at 23 Lozells Street, in 1955.
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hi kath i am a bit confused as the address of the registrar would not be on the marriage cert...

lyn
 
Two more 1970s photos of the Scott Arms junction. The first was taken from where the old Scott Arms pub stood and looks across at the Beacon Cinema with it's balcony of shops. I don't think I would have paid money to watch the film which was showing that day, my childhood memories of films I saw at the Beacon were Walt Disney's 'Snow White', 'Bambi', 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio'.
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The second photo is taken from in front of the cinema and looks across at the 'Scott Arms Shopping Centre'. The car park was where the old pub stood, and on the right the building with the 'M&B' sign is the new Scott Arms pub. I believe it has been changed since this photo was taken. See the advert board for the cinema's balcony cafe.
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oldMohawk said:
Two more 1970s photos of the Scott Arms junction. The first was taken from where the old Scott Arms pub stood and looks across at the Beacon Cinema with it's balcony of shops. I don't think I would have paid money to watch the film which was showing that day, my childhood memories of films I saw at the Beacon were Walt Disney's 'Snow White', 'Bambi', 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio'.
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The second photo is taken from in front of the cinema and looks across at the 'Scott Arms Shopping Centre'. The car park was where the old pub stood, and on the right the building with the 'M&B' sign is the new Scott Arms pub. I believe it has been changed since this photo was taken. See the advert board for the cinema's balcony cafe.
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In the first photo is that a combination, in front of the car?
 
That is how I remember the Scot Arms. my family met there on Saturday night. In the summer my cousin and me would be given a bottle of vimto, yuk, and put out into the garden. I got to see inside many years later when it was packed, standing room only.

In the 50's we had family visiting from America, we all fell about when she was heard to complain that there was no ice in her drink.
 
Di.Poppitt said:
That is how I remember the Scot Arms. my family met there on Saturday night. In the summer my cousin and me would be given a bottle of vimto, yuk, and put out into the garden. I got to see inside many years later when it was packed, standing room only.

In the 50's we had family visiting from America, we all fell about when she was heard to complain that there was no ice in her drink.
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This is the Scott Arms pub how I seem to remember as it was in the 1950s, but I don't remember the tall chimney, I wonder what it was for ?
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Another view of of the Queslett Rd corner I found I had uploaded in 2012. That tree was a bit on the road and it looks like the same tree in the first pic in #4736 but probably a bit later.
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oldMohawk said:
This is the Scott Arms pub how I seem to remember as it was in the 1950s, but I don't remember the tall chimney, I wonder what it was for ?


Probably just an ordinary fire, I assume it was built that tall just to keep the smoke above the roofline so smoke and smells would'nt go into any rooms.
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Di.Poppitt said:
That is how I remember the Scot Arms. my family met there on Saturday night. In the summer my cousin and me would be given a bottle of vimto, yuk, and put out into the garden. I got to see inside many years later when it was packed, standing room only.

In the 50's we had family visiting from America, we all fell about when she was heard to complain that there was no ice in her drink.
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That is very very funny and jangles a chord.
Did she ask for a tomayto juice like ours did and get a - ya what?
 
Hi Carolina
Yes that's correct it was old hill street and at the bottom of the hill you see the big white building
That was the savoy hotel years before the Albanyhotel was built
That white building you see at the bottom of the hill named the savoy hotel my younger
Brother in his early years started work there as a coming cheff but deciding on an army carrerrr
And enlisted for twenty two years in the royal green jackets including the colour service
From boy to man before he served those years done some war years around the globe
Came out of it and two years later he died of bone cancer
But I wanted to say was the savoy closed and changed to a high class casino where the doorman
As they called them in america as jockeys, for taking the customers car keys from them on entry
And drive all the big flash and expensive cars down to the under ground car parking lot
Area years later they closed and open up another flash frontage premises with all the neon lights
Casino on broad street and they started to advertise the over 18 year old to enroll for membership
Nice pictures thanks for the memory Alan,,,,,,, Astonian,,,,,
 
carolina said:
Five Ways No 8 Bus.
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What a picture, probably one of the best I have seen of this class of bus. It was one of 5 Leyland T4c which featured a 'gear less' transmission. Fleet numbers were 964 to 968. They were delivered in April 1937 and as previously said worked out of Hockley Garage. they all had Leyland all steel bodies. They also featured a unique escape hatch window over the bonnet in the drivers cab. In 1939 Leyland supplied 85 TD6c buses with Metro Cammell bodies and then in 1940 a few more Leylands. It is interesting that although the bus had a proper route indicator, it als carried a slip board. Can anyone say if it always carried the thin blue line above the lower saloon windows, Am I right in thinking. That 296 started with a thin line there
 
Onceabrummie said:
It is interesting that although the bus had a proper route indicator, it also carried a slip board.
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It was seeing these boards across the radiator, and I also saw them on old Midland Red buses, that I worked out why we say destination board although most of us remember wind on blinds and now digital displays.
 
Astoness said:
stratford road sparkhill....1954

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You can still see the top part of the Harry Essex Hardware and Tools banner on Stratford road in Sparkhill (see image below). I recognised it from your photo

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