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Warstone Lane Cemetery

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hi polly i saw your other post to someone else and followed your link and found that site.
yes that seems to be her, do you know if there is a map with the sections on
i went to key hill and warstone a few months ago so if i had a map i could picture where she is. i will be able to visit again in the school holiday
thanks for your help zena
 
I am researching the name Bott & have found CLARA ELLEN BOTT died 26/2/1925 age 72yrs & is believed to be buried in a family grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery. Clara had 2 sisters. LYDIA & MARY MARTHA who were also teachers also a brother GEORGE could they be in the family grave too?

Is it possible to find where there graves is please?

Clara was a teacher at the National School House Redditch & in 1911 she & her siblings lived at 201 Knowle Road.

Also I have SELINA BOTT who died 19/01/1901 she lived at 134 Rocky Lane I don't know if she would be buried in Warstone.

I don't know much about this side of my family but I am having great fun discovering them.

Thank you for all the interesting pictures & posts of Warstone.
 
rowan said:
I am researching the name Bott & have found CLARA ELLEN BOTT died 26/2/1925 age 72yrs & is believed to be buried in a family grave in Warstone Lane Cemetery. Clara had 2 sisters. LYDIA & MARY MARTHA who were also teachers also a brother GEORGE could they be in the family grave too?

Is it possible to find where there graves is please?

Clara was a teacher at the National School House Redditch & in 1911 she & her siblings lived at 201 Knowle Road.

Also I have SELINA BOTT who died 19/01/1901 she lived at 134 Rocky Lane I don't know if she would be buried in Warstone.

I don't know much about this side of my family but I am having great fun discovering them.

Thank you for all the interesting pictures & posts of Warstone.
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Yes they appear to be in the same grave E111 Clara 1925 but there's two Georges, one in 1881 and George T in 1914. There's a Lydia in 1912 and a Mary M (would that be Martha) in 1928. You can check on here...
https://www.jqrg.org/page8.html
Selina is dated 1851 in D91

Section E appears to be on the corner of Vyse Street and Pittsford Street, easy to find..
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5395&p=497312#post497312

There's a picture on this site of that corner..
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=17941713&postcount=200
 
1861 census has

Horseley Heath road, Tipton, Staffs

George Bott age 43 Foreman Fitter
Lydia age 43
Lydia 20
George 18
Mary M 12
Clara E 8
all born Birmingham

The Selina who died in 1901 was not born Bott she was married to Samuel Bott b. 1844.
 
Many thanks to you both for your help.

I do have that Key Hill Selina logged but it is the Rocky Lane Selina, widow of Samuel, who died in 1901 I was really after. Do you know where she would be buried from Rocky Lane?

Again thank you for you kind help.
 
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hi does anyone have a picture of section O from now or around 1910 i have been but didnt know i had a baby great aunt buried in that section
thank you zena
p.s. im hopeing to go again but not sure when so would be grateful for anything:strawberry:
 
Re: warstone lane

Hi zena, if you look at post 253 I'm working on a grave! This is Eliza Pressdee O1048. I have several more along the back "Mint Wall" too. Hope this helps.
rosie.
 
hi again rosie just incase you saw it
elsie alma may smith grave 1130
1901 age 3 months ?
regards
zena
 
Hi zena, I'm sorrry to say this, but that row is mostly unmarked Public graves. It's five graves along from Eliza, and one row forward of the Mint Wall. I hope that makes sense. I also have relatives in these Public graves nearby. GT.GT. Grandfather is in the one on the corner by the wall!!
(On #253 it will be to my right just out of sight.)
Best Wishes
rosie.
 
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Came across this picture of Pitsford St with WL cemetery on the right. I thought it was such a cracking photo that I thought I would erm...borrow it.
 

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great pic terry..new to me and that would be vyse st running across the top...trying to work out where that archway leads to and what its for..

lyn
 
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Hi Terry,
There's the entrance to the subway which went under the Goods shed and came out on the Key Hill side of the Railway Tracks!
Drive under there in 1972 when we were removing the lineside cables for scrap.
Once over the tracks - you can could drive all the way to Snow Hill Stn!
 
Key Hill Brian said:
Hi Terry,
There's the entrance to the subway which went under the Goods shed and came out on the Key Hill side of the Railway Tracks!
Drive under there in 1972 when we were removing the lineside cables for scrap.
Once over the tracks - you can could drive all the way to Snow Hill Stn!
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well i never brian...is that archway still there...

lyn
 
Hi, Lynn,

I assume it was filled in when the warehouses were demolished - it just modern lightweight industrial units now.
If you can ever find the scrap timber yard open opposite KH cemetery gates, the openings are still there in the white tiles wall which lead to a ramp that went up the Rail level where Hockley Station originally was - I went in there a few years back - he uses it for storage.
Bri
 
Key Hill Brian said:
Hi, Lynn,

I assume it was filled in when the warehouses were demolished - it just modern lightweight industrial units now.
If you can ever find the scrap timber yard open opposite KH cemetery gates, the openings are still there in the white tiles wall which lead to a ramp that went up the Rail level where Hockley Station originally was - I went in there a few years back - he uses it for storage.
Bri
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thanks for that info bri i shall try and hunt it down next time i am over that way...

lyn
 
The weighbridge in the pic was abandoned by 1972 - we had to take the lorry with the cable we had cut to Avery's for weighing, than into Signalling & Telecomms Stores in Vittoria St, Soho (part of the Multiple Unit Depot) to be locked in a van for onward shipment. The cables were in hooks on the side wall of the railway and many were solid copper as thick as your hand! Worth a small fortune.
It was really interesting walking down once off the platform than a car park at Snow Hill down through the Jewellery Quarter - ll sorts of waste badges & buttoins had been chucked over the wall onto the ex railway line.
 
It would appear the tunnel entrance may still exist, this snapped this morning from inside the entrance to the present site looking up toward Vyse Street with Pittsford Street on the right of frame.

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The level area above the tunnel is now inaccessible having been a car park for many years (see Google Earth and set the date back to the '70s) and is bounded by a curved wall with a drop of some twenty odd feet down into the old Goods Shed yard level. I would imagine that the view from the northern side would be of the side of the Jewellery Quarter station.

I am intrigued by the idea of the tunnel linking back to Hockley station via what was the wood yard with the glazed tiles on Park Street.

My current "project" is to unravel the story behind the railway bridge over Icknield Street facing the Great Western Inn and adjacent to the old station.

A drawing at Kew suggests it may have been one of seven bridges that Brunel had to repair/rebuild following the collapse of the bridge over the Winson Green Turnpike (aka Handsworth New Road) on 25th August 1854 which delayed the opening of the line up to Wolverhampton until the following November.
 
Good Pic,
I tried to look Thursday as I was passing but by than (7pm) the gates were locked up for the night!
There are a few pics of the bridge on this site (or were). The warehouses of the Railway went over the bridge - there were quite a lot of sidings - a very big busy Goods depot in it's day.
The old timber yard can be partially viewed by standing inside KH Cemetery adjacent to the metro wall - you can see the white tiling around the entrances, which lead via the ramp up to platform level.
I'm certain the old OS Maps now available in reprints also show much of the siding, building layout.
Brian
 
This from OS First edition and Gogglerth both about the same scale

Pitsford_Street_tunnel.jpg

Looks about the same relationship and thus, perhaps, the original structure may remain but perhaps beyond the metal security fence visible in my last.

Could be this is a Network Rail access point to the station/trackbed as the next is off All Saints Road.
 
Must pop down in the daytime and go into the yard for a closer look. Haven't been on the metro through there so cannot say what it looks like at track level these days.
 
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