Herbert John Reeves was born in 1899, in Tamworth. Later moving to Kingsbury, where he worked at Kingsbury Colliery.
On 17th September 1914 at Brook Street in Birmingham, Herbert joined the ...
Kingsbury Colliery was founded by the owners of the Hockley Hall and Whateley Colliery and Brickworks in the 1890s when workings were nearing exhaustion. Two shafts were sunk to the ...
The Dexter shaft was sunk in 1927 by Kingsbury Collieries Ltd to extract coal from the other side of the Arley Fault, a geological fault that had caused the coal ...
This video link charts the history of the School House and associated Coton Hall. Thomas Coton founded a school for the children of Kingsbury, Warwickshire in 1686. His old school is ...
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