THE FAMILY ROBINSON
HISTORY OF





R&M 1884





1820 - Built as a house with large ground. (45 Frederick)
1874- Earliest patent. (136 Hockley Hill)
1880 Patent. (136 Hockley Hill)
1880 - Grounds sold and built on. (45 Frederick)
1881 - Leased to R&M (45 Frederick)
1884- Earliest Patent at National Archives (45 Frederick)

Joseph Karl Stiele. 1842.
Maria Anna of Bavaria.
"This is everything I could find on R&M's buildings


Charles Edward Perugini. 1888.
A Summer Shower.








Thanks, Jamie, for use of your pix!


Miranda, Frederick Sandys . English
Pre-Raphaelite painter.



John William Godward. 1899.
the Signal.
Member of the "Marble School" of the Neoclassic style: Greek and Roman imagery with high romance.

136 HOCKLEY HILL
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
1880 AND EARLIER

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1859
Bocca Baciata.




136 Hockley Hill, today, in 2016. JRN

Kelly's Directory of Watch&Clock 1880

Above is 21 Hockley Hill, down the street from the original building, which may have looked like 136. The time period is correct at least. JRN
5 HOCKLEY TERRACE
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
EARLIER
