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  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Heaton.
    It would appear that Walter Hancock quickly learnt of Maud's death because his marriage to the woman he had been seeing for some years...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Heaton with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I was actually looking for a remarriage and knew it should be under the name Hancock. So finding the death was an utter surprise and bonus.
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to Astoness's post in the thread Heaton with Appreciate Appreciate.
    well done jan :) ...ive spent ages looking for mauds death and like mark did not think to look under the surname of hancock which of...
  • Lloyd
    Lloyd reacted to Enel's post in the thread Jowett Javelin with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I snapped this one, a short distance from my home today. Lovely condition. Strange seeing it with seat belts, but I guess it’s a good...
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Heaton with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Buried Hampstead Cemetery Inscription
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Heaton.
    After the divorce talk, I didn't think to look for Hancock. Great find.
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Heaton with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Just about to post the probate for Maud. Here we are
  • MWS
    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Heaton with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Death reg
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Heaton.
    Just checked the ERs and Charlotte's sister Harriet (Adams) lived at 14 Vernon Road from at least 1912 until 1939.
  • MWS
    MWS replied to the thread Heaton.
    On the 1889 map the house that is now no. 14 is the only one then on Vernon Road.
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to BrummieGeoff's post in the thread Cannon Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An excellent 1870's view of the top section of Cannon Street, looking from the Little Cannon Street junction towards Cherry Street. The...
  • D
    Donbogen reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread David Blair gunmaker Birmingham & Robert Burns with Appreciate Appreciate.
    An online translator suggets that inscription means the heart of the sign of gratitude, John Anderson Esquire.
  • BrummieGeoff
    BrummieGeoff replied to the thread Cannon Street.
    An excellent 1870's view of the top section of Cannon Street, looking from the Little Cannon Street junction towards Cherry Street. The...
    • Cannon Street (Little Cannon Street junction) (James Burgoyne) 1875 (2).jpg
  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to A Sparks's post in the thread cluedo with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A new collectable Cluedo 50p coin has been minted... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckx2zdj4166yo
  • Martyn
    Martyn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Chamberlain Square Statues with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I'm still struggling with how terribly sad it is that many statues end up hidden in storage (or in the case of Josiah Mason, cut down)...
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