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City of Birmingham Gas Dept
To
Mr Thomas Ashmore

The Gas Comittee
desire to place on record their appreciation
of the diligent and faithful service
rendered by you to the
Birmingham Gas Undertaking
for 30 years
and the efficient manner in which
you have performed your duties.

dated this 26th day November 1928

It is 'illuminated ' writing, about 18 x 24 " . along with three photos dated 1914, child and mum and dad ( poss Thomas?) which i am going to try and add on photo page, i am hoping to try and trace some relative who might like it.

Sadly Rose Lots of these things get dumped after a Bereavment,no one seems to want them.lots of times there are no-one left to give them to.**M**.

There's someone on the Surname board at the moment with Ashmore connections - I'll send him a pm to come and look at this thread.

Jill

What a nice unselfish person you must be Rose.As someone who has spent years searching for photographs of my Grandparents because the ones my parents had were destroyed by another relative, I am sure someone would be overjoyed to have the photos.

Thankyou for replies, I hope maybe there will be , if not a direct descendant then a cousin who might want the photos. It is very sad to see so many 'lost' ones at auctions or on ebay , when people on here would often be so thrilled to have just one photo .

The photographer was
Whitlock Herbert Mason 319 High St West Bromwich, listed in the 1896. 1900 and 1912 Kelly's directory

so that puts workplace of Thomas and location for photos in same area which may be helpful.

I will go over to Ancestry and see if i can find Thomas, working for the Gas co.... he should have been there in 1901 and if that fails I shall be buying more credits for 1911 lol.

Rose xx

well done rose for been so thoughtful

Oooh I think i might have him on 1901! Just found Thomas aged 41 born West brom labourer at Gas works and he has children ...... on a trail lol

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If anyone wants to follow the trail with me, I have put it on TTF also :)

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Jill, I have PMd four that might be connected, fingers crossed!

xx