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There were 2 or 3 bicycle factories up until 1957, when BSA sold to Raliegh, Hercules
try  www.192.com if you know the area, then menbers of family could still be in area.
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lots of sites with memories of the late 40's early 50's


http://www.rifleman.org.uk/BSA_early_history.htm

http://www.solihull-online.com/m40.htm

The time frame was just after the ww11 ended ..perhaps he was working in the factory making guns, then bikes.?
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Happy+times+at+Hercules+factory%3B+your+MEMORIES.-a0234044876

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/47/a9000947.shtml

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-mail-indepth/birmingham-blitz/blitz-memories/

http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/dudley/memories3.html

http://www.oldladywood.co.uk/memories1.htm

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119811


http://www.ted.rudge.btinternet.co.uk/id24.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxOR0QPq_0c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGgsrBGjXCA&feature=related

there is more ...

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0i82/

In 1815 the Gameskeeps were ask not to cull the Kestrals, as there was a plague of mice at the time ..

" gamekeepers had to be persuaded not to keep down the kestrels. ... Croxdale estate bordered on Tudhoe school, where Charles Waterton had first met "



BOYS, HENRY, surgeon, university administrator, and office-holder; b. 8 Nov. 1775 probably at Sandwich, Kent County, England, the son of William Boys, a prominent surgeon and topographer, and Jane Fuller; m. Maria da Purïfecacao Alves of Lisbon, Portugal, and they had ten children; d. 23 April 1868 at Barrie, Ont.


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Maybe the villa's name is incorrect .. or that it's a galic spelling ...
maybe check an Ordnance Survey Plans

http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/osmapapi/ts?FORMAT=image%

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/Sco/BUT/groome_arl-but_1896.html


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/but.htm
http://www.aigs.org.au/bute.htm

http://www.coraweb.com.au/scotland.htm

http://www.scotlandgenweb.org/buteshire/

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O203926/plate/?print=1
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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=1831-dbh&cid=-1

no title]  DBH 1/101/7  1913


Contents:
R Woodnorth & Son v. John Pitt: papers, including letterhead illustration for Woodnorth & on, decorators, referring to claim for debt.

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http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/poet/PortobelloPoet.htm
He married Johanna Woodnorth sometime before 1839 and they lived at Ettingshall
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehaven

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http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Town_or_Village/location.php?url=whitehaven

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http://www.whitehaven.org.uk/letters.html

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http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28864/pages/6241/page.pdf

"6th day of October, 1913, by Saran.
Brewster, of Wellington House aforesaid, Widow,
and Robert Woodnorth, of Duke-street, Whitehaven
aforesaid, Painter and Decorator, the executors therein
named), are hereby required to send in the particulars
of their debts, claims, and demands to me,"...