A lost Street Piano

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Date:1897

Description:A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail",19th June 1897.
This is a short article about an abandoned "street piano" that the police confiscated from a group of "Peaky Blinders" in Handsworth. It seems to have been abandoned and an owner had not come forward at the time of writing.

Taken from the G.H. Osborne newscuttings collection.

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Instruments Handsworth 1837 - 1900 (Victorian Period)

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Image courtesy of: Birmingham Central Library

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Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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