'The Froggery'

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Date:1775

Description:A Trade Directory of Birmingham (1775).

This entry in Birmingham’s very first 'Trade Directory' (1775) tells us about some of the early occupations being developed in a place once known as the ‘froggery’. The area is now lost beneath the site where Birmingham New Street Station stands. However, this once poor area, just behind New Street, is where the Jews first started to settle. Is it possible that 'Abraham Barnet' was a Jewish teacher, drawn to an area in which we now know members of his community lived and worshipped?

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