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At Property:     20 Red Lion Street ln year: 1911

Was Occupant:   Alfred Birch  aged:  52   Born:  Coventry

 Trade:         General Dealer – own account

Notes:         Wife Sarah Jane (44) plus 5 children + 6 lodgers at home. On the 1901 census Alfred was married to Jennie and lived at 20 Silver Street Yard. In the 1924 Kelly’s Directory Alfred was a Salt Dealer at 20 Red Lion Street. (Alfred was a well known Redditch character and he was nick-named “Salty Birch”. “He used to take his horse and cart to Stoke Prior where he collected salt in big blocks and sell them to the local shopkeepers”-taken from Old Redditch Voices-with permission from Anne Bradford) Alfred Birch died in 1930

Source:       JC – Census & AB – Book

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