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  • superdad3
    superdad3 reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Beadle Bedel with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Similar to a Verger but with a stick for poking ! I immediately imagined Mr Bumble in Dickens' Oliver Twist when I read the newspaper...
  • superdad3
    superdad3 replied to the thread Suckling and Sons Ltd Camden Street.
    This is another advert for Wm Suckling & Sons. similar to that in post 8 above. How odd that a well known silversmith made auto parts...
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  • WriteTheBook
    WriteTheBook replied to the thread Picken Matthew.
    I didn't expect to be so passionately drawn into the history of Birmingham when I started this project. I don't consider myself a...
  • WriteTheBook
    WriteTheBook reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread Picken Matthew with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There was a television series called “Stranger than Fiction” looking at history, you are in the right place. Certainly Birmingham has SO...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad replied to the thread Picken Matthew.
    This a link to a similar photo to that in post #65 but earlier, probably 1950s, (shows a rag and bone man), apparently the original is a...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Suckling and Sons Ltd Camden Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The factory is still there. Both sections, the section on Camden Street and that on Albion Street, have vitually the same architecture...
  • brummy-lad
    brummy-lad reacted to devonjim's post in the thread Problems with Ancestry?? with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Offer of free Ancestry access for limited time, selected occupation collections, no credit card details needed!
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    Stokkie reacted to devonjim's post in the thread Problems with Ancestry?? with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Offer of free Ancestry access for limited time, selected occupation collections, no credit card details needed!
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Suckling and Sons Ltd Camden Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Sucklings advertising as being at Kingsway House, Albion Street in 1918. The address in Albion Street was #35. They were no longer in...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread James Hinks and Sons Crystal Works 91-96 Great Hampton Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/164488940#/?channel=RES_BUY
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    Stokkie reacted to warren's post in the thread Donations with Appreciate Appreciate.
    thank you all for the donations, we are now just £80 away from our target for the new license update (yearly) and 5 months of running...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Beadle Bedel with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Similar to a Verger but with a stick for poking ! I immediately imagined Mr Bumble in Dickens' Oliver Twist when I read the newspaper...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Beadle Bedel with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Beadle A beadle, sometimes spelled bedel, is an official who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to mw0njm.'s post in the thread Beadle Bedel with Appreciate Appreciate.
    https://www.geriwalton.com/beadles/
  • warren
    warren replied to the thread Donations.
    thank you all for the donations, we are now just £80 away from our target for the new license update (yearly) and 5 months of running...
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