Rare opportunity to view the interior catacombs 22 July 2023 at the JQFest
Warstone Lane Catacomb Tours, Key Hill Catacombs Tours. You asked, we listened. Please ensure you read “about this event” on each booking...
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- Apr 15, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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friends-kh-wl-cem
- Feb 22, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 1 min
Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter
Photograph of Frederick WAKELING, Suffragette supporter
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