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Tennal House Harborne

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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Tennel House, the home of scientist Francis Aston, (not to be confused with Tennal Hall or Tennal Grange - see seperate threads) was:

"south of the junction of Tennal Road and Queens Park Road, was the childhood home of Francis Aston 1877-1945 who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922 and is best known for his invention of the mass spectrograph. Tennal House was demolished in the 1960s and a Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque commemorating the scientist is attached to a house opposite the site where the scientist also lived"
(Source: Bill Dargue's site)

The blue plaque is attached to an extension to 91 Tennal Road.
 
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At first, I thought it might have been another name for Tennal Grange, but it's in a different position and the Grange is still standing.

Opposite 91 Tennal Road is all vegetation, so hard to see anything of the former site of the house. Maybe too small a property to be named on maps ?
 
On 1881 census the family are living in Church Lane.
On 1891 they are in Tennal Road looks like #5 . Next house listed is Lincolnville. Then numbers 14, 12 etc
 
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