Monday 4 November 2013

Moseley History Archive

The Moseley Society Local History Group holds an archive at The Exchange in Alcester Road. There is a large collection of photos and I have recorded those that were taken within my area of interested - Alcester Road, Chantry Road, Moseley Park, Salisbury Road, St. Mary's Row, Church Road, Oxford Road and Woodbridge Road.






















As well as a large collection of maps, the archive also contains material from individual houses which give clues to the more day to day lives of their occupants. During the 1920/30s the Cookes of 110 Oxford Road kept invoices for household items, clothing, building work and even doctors' bills.










Items left behind when people have moved house have been passed on to the archives for safe keeping, such as a set of family photos of a military family from 36 Salisbury Road.

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