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Thank you but I can't get to Dudley library.

Does anyone know when the houses in South Street, Brierley Hill were first built? Particularly the ones parallel to the Baptist Chapel. I know the Baptist Chapel began in the late 1700s.

Does anyone know when South Street, Brierley Hill had houses first built there? I know it was before the 1851 Census. Also any info at all about that street and also when the Baptist Church in South Street was first built. Thank You.

Thank you for this petrd it is most unusual and useful to find. I didn't know about the triplets. I haven't got any certificates but I have looked up dates on ancestry.co.uk

Thank you RockyFowler and Northern Lass for this.

Does anyone know anything about John Jeavons born 1804 in Brierley HIll and his wife and antecedents who was a grocer in Brierley Hill? I know about his descendents.

Thank you Kelly this is probably from the Ancestry.co.uk tree I created. What I'm looking for really is anyone left related to her who could fill me in more about her as there is very little. She was my great aunt.

I lived near to the top of Collis Street opposite King William Street from 1944 to 1967. My mothers cousins lived opposite on the corner of King William Street, which was a big double house built by my 2 great Uncles Jeavons and Tom Chattin owner of the drapery shop Chattin and Hortons Brierley Hill...

Thank you Mumbles it's very useful to know.

Born Silver End, Brierley Hill. I know she married Thos.Skidmore and had John Thos. and Frank Harry. Husband died and she married Charles Cross from Wollaston in 1874 and had 4 more children Alfred, Emma, Kate and Arthur. Kate married a Capewell. Not sure if she died aged 96 in 1969 in Seisdon, Staf...

I don't know Stourbridge at all. I always seem to drive around it but that was enjoyable reading oldun.Thanks. Robert Plant was on BBC 4 last night recalling his days in Stourbridge before he became mega famous. Never got to know many names, snogging sorta of got in the way. Who knows how many famo...

Finding this site difficult to reply to. Generally don't know where to go to answer questions. John Jeavons name was Joseph in answer to petard and John Barnbrook's father was James. If you go to the post you want to answer then click on the button marked "QUOTE" you will get a draft entr...

The RAF camp at Bridgnorth was a boon to us girls. They were in uniform for a start which looked much better than the teddy boy outfits of our locals. The 190 bus from Bridgnorth to Stourbridge was eagerly awaited on a weekend when the boys had passes. New 'recruits' came from all over the country s...

Finding this site difficult to reply to. Generally don't know where to go to answer questions. John Jeavons name was Joseph in answer to petard and John Barnbrook's father was James.

I worked in Stourbridge in 1960 and lived only a 'bus ride away. Lower High Street has changed drastically since then as has the whole of the area. The Water Board had their offices at the bottom end with a very fancy façade which still exists today although behind it are all new Flats. There was Sa...