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  • Morturn
    Morturn reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Wye Cliff(e) Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Quite an unusual combination of features in the design of these two houses. Love the finials on the gate posts and the keyhole porch...
  • A Sparks
    A Sparks reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Wye Cliff(e) Road Handsworth with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Quite an unusual combination of features in the design of these two houses. Love the finials on the gate posts and the keyhole porch...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread John Walsh Walsh with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Jingers. There are several separate copies of the book online One, that can be down loaded is at...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Louise Thornhill's post in the thread John Alfred Hawker with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Jason Ellis thank you so much for the interesting information about Isaac Hawker. I have only just discovered he is my 6 times Great...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Jason Ellis's post in the thread John Alfred Hawker with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi Judy, I regret to say that I do not believe that "your" Francis Silvers is related to the Silvers family, glassmakers of Moor Lane...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Jason Ellis's post in the thread John Alfred Hawker with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi Judy, please send me some key dates for Francis Silvers or even better a pointer to a census record which I presume is how you have...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Jason Ellis's post in the thread John Alfred Hawker with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hi Judy, I managed to do this before going on holiday by merging my earlier notes with the articles kindly provided by MikeJee. Park...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Jason Ellis's post in the thread John Alfred Hawker with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Hello Judy, I will reply in two halves. This half concern the Silvers family. The Silvers family was immensely important in the...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to JudyTink's post in the thread John Alfred Hawker with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Can you possibly throw any further light on Isaac Hawker and his son John Alfred Hawker? Where they came from etc. please. Also, if you...
  • Sarah lou
    Sarah lou replied to the thread Nazareth House.
    Hi does anyone know the mystery of what was buried under the blocks of massionette on Bristol Road South our massionette was opposite...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread John Walsh Walsh with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Soho Glassworks, Lodge Rd Hockey Archealogical survey (2008) for Morris Home's by Cotswold Archaeology. (An earlier one had been...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Pedrocut's post in the thread John Walsh Walsh with Appreciate Appreciate.
    On Soho Glassworks by Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society “However, in 1849 the glassworks were held by the trustees of...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to Jason Ellis's post in the thread John Walsh Walsh with Appreciate Appreciate.
    John Walsh-Walsh's Soho and Vesta Glass Works, deserves the greatest respect. It gave the Stourbridge glass manufacturers a run for...
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to mikejee's post in the thread John Walsh Walsh with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Here is an article extracted from a later book on him:
  • M
    MTP2023 reacted to carolina's post in the thread John Walsh Walsh with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Both were called Edwin born 1901 and 1927 - my cousin is still alive. This is the Birmingham Mail write up that the photo was taken...
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