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Brunswick, 52 Lancaster street, Birmingham, Warwickshire

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1892/Thomas Charles Thurstan/Brunswick, 115 Lancaster street/../../Kellys Directory

1900/Albert Dunn/../../../Kellys Directory

By 1901 census Annie Thomas is a short stroll north-east, just round the corner really, at 115 Lancaster Street managing the Brunswick Hotel, with the owner Thomas Horton (49, Commercial Traveller) & son Thomas (18) recorded as visitors on the census.
Annie 1901, with 3x daughters, 4 actually as Ethel Dobson (servant / Barmaid) is her daughter pre-marriage & my great-grandmother

1905/Thomas Horton/../../../Kellys Directory

1908/John Davies/../../../Kellys Directory

1915/James Fletcher/../../../Kellys Directory

The 1921 census has my great grandfather William Walker as the manager of the Brunswick, employed by M&B Brewery, Smethwick.
His wife Jane was manageress, again employed by M&B, and their children William, Cyril (barman at the Grapes, Aston Street, Aston) Ivy and Ruby are listed as is a visitor Gertie Williamson. *

1940/Douglas Walter George Edwards/../../../Kellys Directory


* Provided by Dave Exton

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