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    • Apr 15
    • 2 min

    Police Inspector John Parry

    John was born in Herefordshire to Sophie Gilbert & John Parry in 1860 and was christened 26 August 1860 at St John the Baptist,...

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    • Apr 10
    • 1 min

    Midnight burials with lanterns.

    One would think from the image below that this family are still resting in the catacombs at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham Jewellery...

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    • Apr 1
    • 2 min

    Samuel Beale 1803-1874, Mayor of Birmingham 1841

    Samuel Beale was born in Birmingham on 4th of June 1803 the eldest son of Sarah and William Beale. Samuel’s younger brother, William...

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    • Mar 31
    • 2 min

    Walter Abbott, Professional Footballer

    Walter Abbott was born 7 December 1877 in Small Heath, Birmingham to Mary Ann Wheelwright & George Abbott a Gun Barrel Borer. Walter was...

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    • Mar 28
    • 1 min

    Robert Thomas & Galton House, Smethwick

    The buried grave was found of Robert Thomas and his wife Jane Ward Earp and some of their children. This grave that was buried deep...

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    • Mar 23
    • 7 min

    Sudden death of Birmingham’s smallest person in 1884

    The nineteenth century was a period for such forms of entertainment for disabled people being exhibited at traveling fairs and circuses....

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    • Mar 22
    • 2 min

    Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman (The Railway Man)

    Alan Andrew Lamb Hickman was born in Southampton in 1884 the son Mary Elizabeth Lamb and William Hickman whose occupation was a...

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    • Mar 22
    • 1 min

    Constance Naden, famous female poet

    Constance Naden was an artist, philosopher, scientist and poet, very famous in her lifetime and considered to be one of the foremost...

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    • Mar 8
    • 1 min

    The famous Warstone or Hoarstone

    The Warstone / Hoarstone is a glacial made from the volcanic rock which was carried here from Wales by glacial ice. The Warstone was...

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    • Feb 22
    • 2 min

    Birmingham Blitz, Mary A Greenhill & Mary White, mother & sister of author Kathleen Dayus.

    The family of Author Kathleen DAYUS Mary Ann GREENHILL nee SMITH born 20 June 1867 died Thursday 10 April 1941 at 26 Camden Grove,...

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    • Feb 22
    • 2 min

    The Birmingham Blitz and the"Sand Bag" deaths

    A survivors story at the Inquest from the Birmingham Mail 6th November 1940 An inquest was held in Birmingham on 6 November 1940 of three...

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    • Feb 22
    • 5 min

    The Blitz in Hockley, and the unknown lady victim

    Bombing of The Vine Pub Alfred James WAKELING was born 1885 in Hockley, Birmingham to Alfred WAKELING & Mary Ann KENDALL . He had...

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    • Feb 8
    • 1 min

    Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter

    Photograph of Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter

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