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  • mikejee
    A photo supposedly from 1953 of houses back of 41 Humpage Road. However, the 1949 map does not seem to fit these being there then, so...
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  • D
    There is a small "Priory Cottage" only a hundred yards away from the Pidgeon House. Maybe some of the girls were billeted there but took...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Dinger's post in the thread Help with writing on photo please. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yep SuperDad! Spot On. - Its a building next to the Church at Southam Gloucestershire - Google Streetview doesn't list it but I've found...
  • superdad3
    superdad3 reacted to Richard Dye's post in the thread Rivers: River Cole with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Without knowing all of the details, I’m sure the environmental impact study would take year and lots of £££££, let alone the cost to...
  • superdad3
    superdad3 reacted to Dinger's post in the thread Help with writing on photo please. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Yep SuperDad! Spot On. - Its a building next to the Church at Southam Gloucestershire - Google Streetview doesn't list it but I've found...
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Iommi family.
    I find DNA fascinating, I am bit sceptical about some of the results at times though. Frosinone is a province in the Lazio region of...
  • D
    Yep SuperDad! Spot On. - Its a building next to the Church at Southam Gloucestershire - Google Streetview doesn't list it but I've found...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Suzanneiom's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Also The bone has been retrieved and is behind the altar and will be buried this week by a parishioner who is an undertaker :)
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom replied to the thread Iommi family.
    Also The bone has been retrieved and is behind the altar and will be buried this week by a parishioner who is an undertaker :)
  • R
    Richard Dye reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Rivers: River Cole with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There is an interesting booklet about the River Cole, written by John Morris Jones, on the excellent Acocks Green History Society site...
  • superdad3
    Great photos. My wife's family came from Southam, Warks. If you look at the chapel in the background it definitely doesn't look like...
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Saltley College with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The photo is labelled as being of schoolboys from St Peter's College. They look a bit young to be trainee teachers, so probably they...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom replied to the thread Iommi family.
    I found these two on my dna matches. Debbie doesn’t seem to have any Italian in her thou which is odd. But Giuseppe has a lot. Could...
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  • superdad3
    superdad3 reacted to Lady Penelope's post in the thread Help with writing on photo please. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    This photo was taken in 1947 as the Land Army girls were just leaving for work. There are some faint words at the top telling where it...
  • Suzanneiom
    Suzanneiom reacted to MWS's post in the thread Iommi family with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There appears to be a small family tree on Ancestry that a descendant of Luciano's Cheshire family has done, possibly a great grand...
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