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SSmash replied to the thread Hicken family.Oh wow, he married 2 Elsie's and lost a son! I don't know how many other Alfreds there were previous but my grandad was at the 3rd. I...
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SAlfred Morris Hicken was born in Budbroke, Warwickshire in 1898, died 1965. He was married previously to Elsie Laura Pignutt and had a...
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MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.Alfred Morris Hicken was born in Budbroke, Warwickshire in 1898, died 1965. He was married previously to Elsie Laura Pignutt and had a... -
DDionysius//88 reacted to Morturn's post in the thread The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Page 8 with
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41. Piccadilly Arcade entrance in Navigation Street. We used to call this junction 'Hornton's Corner.' 42. Piccadilly Arcade... -
SSmash replied to the thread Hicken family.Thank you so much! Do you have any info on where Alfred & Elsie were born or died please?
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SAlfred and Elsie were living at 6 bk 116 Bissell St in 1939 so might be where the young Alfred was born.
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SAppears to have been the youngest son of Alfred M Hicken and Elsie Audley. Had 2 older sisters - Iris and Violet - and w older brothers...
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MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.Alfred and Elsie were living at 6 bk 116 Bissell St in 1939 so might be where the young Alfred was born.
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DDionysius//88 replied to the thread City Centre Photographs.This is the old Forum picture house been in there a few times
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DABC cinema entrance on new st 1982 lyn
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MWS replied to the thread Hicken family.Appears to have been the youngest son of Alfred M Hicken and Elsie Audley. Had 2 older sisters - Iris and Violet - and w older brothers...
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DDionysius//88 replied to the thread The Keith Berry Photo Archive - Old Birmingham Page 8.Thank you Morturn for this pic it takes me back quite some years,, two colleagues that featured in my apprenticeship in the 60's lived...
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DDionysius//88 reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread West End cinema in New Street with Appreciate.
The cinema is mentioned on the Piccadilly Arcade website... https://piccadillyarcade.org/ I remember there was a Gym in the upstairs...
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I’m just following up on an address that my grandfather was born at. It appears that it’s a front street facing house and was Mrs Lings... -
SHi, I'm looking for any information about my grandads side of the family. I literally know nothing about that side and I'm not in...