Hi Anne List For those that are not local to birmingham , I would like to point out that the saltley itself is home to a large railway sidings and main lines run through them . Anne Peat wrote: > The Railway Mission seems to be an international mission organisation. > It was widespread in Victorian and Edwardian times > >> Railway Mission, The; 1881; 1, Adam Street, Strand, W.C.; The >> spiritual, moral and physical welfare of railway employés. One >> thousand religious and temperance meetings are held by the Mission >> every week. >> >> Railway Mission Convalescent Homes; 1887; Ditto; Has Convalescent >> Homes at St. Leonards-on-Sea and Southport, exclusively for railway >> men of all lines. >> > It is still in existence and has a website. > http://www.railwaymission.org/. > > and can be contacted at > The Railway Mission > > Room 4 > Denison House North > Hexthorpe Road > Doncaster > DN4 0EL > United Kingdom > > ( There is also now a railway engine called 'Railway Mission') > There was one in Birmingham near St Mary's Acock's Green > > >> St. Mary's used to have several outlying buildings. The Church House >> opened c. 1908 at the corner of Arden Road and Rookwood Road, and >> since about 1983 has been in the hands of Birmingham City Mission. A >> mission room was opened at Spring Road in 1881, and was moved to >> Summer Road as St. Gabriel's when the North Warwickshire Line was >> about to be built, c. 1905, as the line would have gone through the >> chapel. This mission room was replaced by a Memorial Hall in 1928/9. >> The idea had been to have a permanent chapel there, but it was decided >> that a room for social and recreation purposes was needed. Another >> room, the Jubilee Hall behind the Memorial Hall, was opened in 1936: >> money for it was raised in part by Leonard Skan, a well-known local >> milkman. There were tennis courts and other sports facilities on site >> (thanks to Kath Huckfield for help with this information). Around >> 1938, a Railway Mission Room opened next to the railway at Spring >> Road, but it did not belong to St. Mary's. It is still there, as a >> Congregational chapel. >> > > and British History on-line has this to say about the building in St > Andrew's Street. > > Bromford Lane Birches Green Evangelical Free Church was registered for > public worship in 1947. (fn. 59) > > St. Andrew's Street, Small Heath Dr. Crabbe Memorial Mission was > established in the former Railway Mission hall in St. Andrew's Street > in 1948. The mission appears to have been founded about 1918, in honour > of the former superintendent of the Birmingham Medical Mission, q.v., > and occupied the Dr. Crabbe Memorial Hall, Bordesley Street, from 1925 > to 1947. (fn. 60) Immediately prior to the move to St. Andrew's > Street it met at a hall in Sandy Lane, belonging to the Presbyterian > Church. (fn. 61) > > HTH > Anne > On 5 Jan 2007, at 14:28, Allan Halstead wrote: > > >> My wife's grandfather, Benjamin George HARRIS, died on the Somme on >> 1/7/1916 aged 21. >> >> His Commonwealth War Graves Commission certificate shows his parents >> as Walter and Annie HARRIS of Railway Mission House, St. Andrew's St., >> Birmingham but I'm having no luck in tracing them. >> >> I've tried Googling "Birmingham Railway Mission House" but to no avail. >> >> Is it likely that the family would have been living there as >> caretakers, and if so, are there likely to be any employment records >> anywhere? >> >> Incidentally, my wife was also christened at this Mission House in >> 1938. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> Allan Halstead >> > > > _____________________________________________ > Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: > http://www.bham.de/ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

from an ex Brummie Saltley is also home to a big gas works unless they have chopped it down in the last 40 years. Ken B ----- Original Message ----- From: "J hodge" <jhdl10848@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:49 AM Subject: Re: [B'ham] Birmingham's Railway Mission House Hi Anne List For those that are not local to birmingham , I would like to point out that the saltley itself is home to a large railway sidings and main lines run through them . Anne Peat wrote: > The Railway Mission seems to be an international mission organisation. > It was widespread in Victorian and Edwardian times > >> Railway Mission, The; 1881; 1, Adam Street, Strand, W.C.; The >> spiritual, moral and physical welfare of railway employés. One >> thousand religious and temperance meetings are held by the Mission >> every week. >> >> Railway Mission Convalescent Homes; 1887; Ditto; Has Convalescent >> Homes at St. Leonards-on-Sea and Southport, exclusively for railway >> men of all lines. >> > It is still in existence and has a website. > http://www.railwaymission.org/. > > and can be contacted at > The Railway Mission > > Room 4 > Denison House North > Hexthorpe Road > Doncaster > DN4 0EL > United Kingdom > > ( There is also now a railway engine called 'Railway Mission') > There was one in Birmingham near St Mary's Acock's Green > > >> St. Mary's used to have several outlying buildings. The Church House >> opened c. 1908 at the corner of Arden Road and Rookwood Road, and >> since about 1983 has been in the hands of Birmingham City Mission. A >> mission room was opened at Spring Road in 1881, and was moved to >> Summer Road as St. Gabriel's when the North Warwickshire Line was >> about to be built, c. 1905, as the line would have gone through the >> chapel. This mission room was replaced by a Memorial Hall in 1928/9. >> The idea had been to have a permanent chapel there, but it was decided >> that a room for social and recreation purposes was needed. Another >> room, the Jubilee Hall behind the Memorial Hall, was opened in 1936: >> money for it was raised in part by Leonard Skan, a well-known local >> milkman. There were tennis courts and other sports facilities on site >> (thanks to Kath Huckfield for help with this information). Around >> 1938, a Railway Mission Room opened next to the railway at Spring >> Road, but it did not belong to St. Mary's. It is still there, as a >> Congregational chapel. >> > > and British History on-line has this to say about the building in St > Andrew's Street. > > Bromford Lane Birches Green Evangelical Free Church was registered for > public worship in 1947. (fn. 59) > > St. Andrew's Street, Small Heath Dr. Crabbe Memorial Mission was > established in the former Railway Mission hall in St. Andrew's Street > in 1948. The mission appears to have been founded about 1918, in honour > of the former superintendent of the Birmingham Medical Mission, q.v., > and occupied the Dr. Crabbe Memorial Hall, Bordesley Street, from 1925 > to 1947. (fn. 60) Immediately prior to the move to St. Andrew's > Street it met at a hall in Sandy Lane, belonging to the Presbyterian > Church. (fn. 61) > > HTH > Anne > On 5 Jan 2007, at 14:28, Allan Halstead wrote: > > >> My wife's grandfather, Benjamin George HARRIS, died on the Somme on >> 1/7/1916 aged 21. >> >> His Commonwealth War Graves Commission certificate shows his parents >> as Walter and Annie HARRIS of Railway Mission House, St. Andrew's St., >> Birmingham but I'm having no luck in tracing them. >> >> I've tried Googling "Birmingham Railway Mission House" but to no avail. >> >> Is it likely that the family would have been living there as >> caretakers, and if so, are there likely to be any employment records >> anywhere? >> >> Incidentally, my wife was also christened at this Mission House in >> 1938. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> Allan Halstead >> > > > _____________________________________________ > Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: > http://www.bham.de/ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > _____________________________________________ Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: http://www.bham.de/ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message