Josiah Mason

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Josiah Mason

Image: © Adrian Bailey Taken: 4 Oct 2004

Visitors to Erdington arriving on the A452 Chester Road are greeted by "Old Joe", one of Birmingham's most famous industrialists and philanthropists. In the 1850s and 60s he spent a considerable part of his fortune on an orphanage and almshouses in Erdington.

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