Gas works? Ken, since north sea gas (about 1971) we have no gas works - or at least I don't think we do. They were there to make gas from coal, producing coke as a by product. Ugly they were too, so not a bad thing. Gas now comes from Europe and Russia as the north sea has run out or almost run out of gas. Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth William Bibb" <kbibb@bigpond.com> To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:40 AM Subject: Re: [B'ham] Birmingham's Railway Mission House > 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 > > >