York Family History

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham A beautiful map of a time gone by, Aston Birmingham.

#MapOnATuesday is this 1758 map of Aston Manor by J. Tomlinson. A reduced copy from the ancient plans of Birmingham series printed by order of the Public Works Committee of Birmingham City Council. Ref - MAP/373483 @LibraryofBham

@BloozEXTRA What on earth is going on? I lived in this City for 30 years and I bring friends down from York to show them the beautiful Victorian buildings of Birmingham. It looks like tarmac alley!

Bankrupt council or not. How this is allowed is beyond thinkable. Complete disregard for the aesthetic of Colmore Row. One of the most prestigious thoroughfares in the city btw. Sickening.

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham Love this. I recall John Morris Jones booklets from the 1980s which were so detailed. @YorkFHS @BALHNews @histassoc

Really disappointing that we cannot go ahead with this years Fair but really excited about our new venue and plans for our 2027 event

@JaneEFindlay @Bradford_St_Bhm @RosieP4 Good point!

@Bradford_St_Bhm @RosieP4 It’s hard enough getting urban trees to establish without this kind of vandalism. And you have to ask why is someone wandering around Digbeth the a chainsaw?

Simply heartbroken… Just found out that earlier this week, two men chainsawed down some of the beautiful trees on Digbeth High Street Sometimes there are no words 😢

@Bradford_St_Bhm Will the culprits ever be found? CCTV?

Date for your diary - Tee Bylo our brilliant membership secretary of @YorkFHS is at the Dead Good Festival this Sunday at the Homestead York at 2pm

Awaiting the Victory Bus of the champions York City! Great times for the Minstermen #york #football

Great for @YorkFHS to be at this conference. Really enjoyed it and look forward to the next. @IHGS @BALHNews

A glorious visit to St Martins Church in Birmingham today to view the wonderful carvings depicting the last days of Jesus on earth - from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the traitors kiss. ⁦@TheIronRoom⁩ ⁦@OurTownStory⁩ ⁦@GuildOneName⁩ ⁦

British Women’s fashion over the last millennium and a half….

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham @Brumpic Was this the legendary Ravenhurst?

#PhotoFriday today is a Jacobean manor house, Lowe Street nr Ravenhurst Street. Owned by local attorney, John Lowe and often associated with the Dolphin family. The image seems to be a later reproduction of an earlier photograph dated 1859. Ref: WK/B12/135 @LibraryofBham @Brumpic

Great talk at YAYAs on Wednesday last - all about Rev Charles Wellbeloved. I visited his grave at the Unitarian chapel in St Saviourgate some time ago. Church burials had been banned in York by that time but the Council agreed to allow this one. ⁦@RoyalHistSoc⁩ ⁦

I was stumbling around in the archives yesterday and came across this cheeky chap advertising distemper in York in 1925. I thought distemper was a disease that animals got! ⁦🤔

#OuterCircle today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Outer Circle (Number 11) bus route. Here’s an illustrated description of the route and places of interest from 1927. Ref - Birmingham Guides C/2 (347423) @LibraryofBham

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham Does it include passing Stechford Water Mill?

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham @Brumpic Wow that was a quick turn over even for Birmingham!

#PhotoFriday is the Kings Norton United Reform church on the corner of Watford Road and Woodfall Road. The church was built in 1903 and demolished in 1953. Ref - WK/K5/335 @LibraryofBham @Brumpic

Happy Easter everyone. York FHS visited beautiful Bradford Cathedral this week in search of ancestors. A site of worship since the 7th century

Alleluia! Christ is risen! (This is one of the remaining fragments of 15th century glass from St Nicholas, Blakeney, Norfolk. It survived the Tudor reformations, the puritans and the Civil War, and is still in the church today.)

@GenealogyBeech Beautiful St Mary’s Abbey

Wishing everyone of all faiths or of none the joys and beauty of Easter Day and of Spring. Thank you as always for your continuing support. (St May's Abbey, York, Saxman 1597 CC BY-SA 4.0) #EasterDay