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various photo requests

Astoness

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hi all ive lumped all these requests for photos under one thread as time is of the essence for this one...as some of you know surunte 43(shirley) and her cousin are visiting from canada for the first time to see where her ancestors came from. and some of us will be meeting up with them tomorrow...i have just received a list of addresses off shirley where the family lived and i know this is very short notice but if anyone could help with pics i would be most grateful....i will of course be searching myself...

well here goes and many thanks for any help given...the years given are when shirleys family lived there..

246 maryvale road bournville...1906
60 bournville...stirchley..1911
47 beaumont road..bournville..
rose cottage..griffin brook lane...1920
184 bournville lane..1930
winson green road...late 1800s
 
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I can't find the photo I posted but there are a lot of Bournville on here
 
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thanks liz...i could not find that one...would love to know what numbers the houses are but its a great old pic...

lyn
 
still good to have that pic liz..im shirley will love it...

lyn
 
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Lyn

Maryvale Rd & Bournville Lane, I think Griffin Brook Lane might be a slight problem though.I have never seen one, but you know what I always say. "Its out there somewhere". By the way, I'm sure I have seen photos of both these roads on the forum somewhere.

Phil

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Lyn
not quite what you asked, but here is the gateway of griffin's brook house about 1909, which is just off the map I posted earlier (on the part which is now cob lane, you can see the aprt of the name , but not the house on the map). The house was knocked down a long time ago
mike

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thanks a lot phil and mike...these will go into shirleys folder...mike i would think her ancestors must has passed the house many times....

lyn..
 
phil and mike..i have just been reading up on a book about the cadburys and have come accross another pic of bournville lane showing the the cottages that were built for cadbury workers..there was 20 in all...both of shirleys grandparents worked for cadburys before leaving for canada in the early 1900s so i think as this is one of the addresses she has for them it may be safe to asume that they lived in a cadbury cottage..will try and scan it...

lyn
 
these are great liz. shirleys grandad was a carpenter for cadburys and her grandmother a cocoa packer..this would i think have been around the 1890s...will have to confirm that with her tomorrow....i shall add these to my growing collection of pics...

many thanks...

lyn
 
Lyn
No184 is on the corner of cedar road, and would certainly be either a bournville village trust house or a Cadbury Bros house (the two were later combined under the trust), as I think all bournville lane to the west of the railway bridge was one of the two. No 60 would have been on the corner of oxford road and not part of the estate. I think the Maryvale road address was also part of the trust land.
mike
 
Lyn here is a picture of the Stirchley end of bournville lane c 1908. No 60 would have been in the far distance on the right.

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thank you mike..phil and liz for all the help with gathering some info for shirley...couldnt have done it without you...this is the pic i have scanned from an orginal book published in 1931 called A CENTURY OF PROGRESS which is all about cadburys.. the price was 2/-...lots of info and pics.... i think this is a new pic well i dont think ive seen it before...

lyn
 
Not to far from Griffins Brook Lane at the top of Hole Lane Stands Windmill Hill. I wonder if there was one there at some time and perhaps Shirleys ancesters had knowledge of it.
 
Lyn
Have found a little titbit. It is from a small book "Bournville Then & Now" by Margaret a Broomfield published to celebrate the Centenery of the bournville village Trust and is below. Incidently the Griffens Brook house is (well was when book was written about 2000) still there called "The Holdings"

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mike thats a lovely little tit bit as you call it..well fancy rose cottage meaning to much to someone..well enough to have the gate away...how romantic...must show shirley this....be nice to find out if the griffins brook house is still there....

thank you mike...

lyn
 
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