Ken I'm afraid that it doesn't say, what it does say is that after a while Streets were considered "downmarket" (purely sometimes just by being a street, i.e. often without any logic) so in middle/upper class areas such as Moseley there are no streets at all they are all roads. I think that Booth St. must be one of the very few streets in Handsworth?  Cheers "it's what's in the grooves that counts" ----- Original Message ---- > From: Kenneth William Bibb <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 11 July, 2008 10:08:34 AM > Subject: Re: [B'ham] A smile for Friday > > Paul, > What about Booth St Handsworth?? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Gebhard" > To: > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 5:40 PM > Subject: [B'ham] A smile for Friday > > > > I've been browsing through a book that explains the origins of certain > street > names in Birmingham, I found the following amusing:- > > Booth's Lane, Great Barr:- > > William BOOTH was a notorious forger and minter of false coins and on 28 > March > 1812 the military attacked his farmhouse in Great Barr (hence Booth's Farm > Rd.); > the authorities found £3,000 in gnuine notes, 200 genuine guineas, £600 in > counterfeit silver coins and a large amount of forged notes. > > He was sent for trial at Stratford Assizes. Four years previously he had > been > tried and acquitted for the murder of his brother. This time he was found > guilty. Booth was executed publicly on 15 August 1815, but the hangman > bungled > the job and so the coiner had to be revived and hanged again two hours > later. He > was buried at Handsworth Old Church and later removed elsewhere. > > Thus, Booth was tried twice, hanged twice and buried twice! > > Cheers > > "it's what's in the grooves that counts"