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    Australiangirl reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Aston church war graves. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    ok thats great so all we need now is to hope that someone who maybe visiting aston parish church to try and hunt down arthurs headstone...
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    Australiangirl replied to the thread Aston church war graves..
    Yes thats correct. She was actually Ethel Maud and remarried William Waltho
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    Australiangirl replied to the thread Aston church war graves..
    Thanks Lyn. Fingers crossed someone might be able to help. I'll definitely have a look at the Catherine St pictures
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    Australiangirl replied to the thread Aston church war graves..
    Thanks for replying so quickly. That's the family. My grandfather was John. It would be fantastic if someone could locate this...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    Another aerial view from 1937.
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    An aerial view from 1935. Looking at the BARRA site their was a WWII bomb death at No. 115, this probably accounts for the disappearance...
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    Australiangirl replied to the thread Aston church war graves..
    Hi..new here and just saw your thread. Hoping that you are all still on here. I'm trying to locate a photograph of the grave of Pvt...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    Sorry Lyn nobody had replied when I started looking and I posted the maps, it normally says if there have been replies.
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    clavwolf replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    Many thanks Lyn. I really apprecaite your help
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    clavwolf reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Alcester Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    here is a map from 1944 to 74 you can move the map around and as you will see no 118 and the back houses are all gone..i can roughly...
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    clavwolf reacted to brummy-lad's post in the thread Alcester Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi and welcome to the forum. These are links to Alcester Street maps 1950 and late 1880s. I think the house numbers remaines sequrntial...
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    clavwolf replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    Many thanks John. That's really helpful
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    brummy-lad reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Whalton or Wall with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I too looked through Bakery Building names and did find a.widow Ann Wall but couldn't connect her to any of the names we wanted. I will...
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    I suspect it would be in the area circled.
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    brummy-lad replied to the thread Alcester Street.
    Hi and welcome to the forum. These are links to Alcester Street maps 1950 and late 1880s. I think the house numbers remaines sequrntial...
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