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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city in the West Midlands of England.

Maud Carter grew up at Small Heath in Birmingham before marrying George Besford in 1920, and Harry Besford was a senior medical physicist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital there.

George Besford (1893–1966)

George Besford was born in Amble, Northumberland. He lost his leg in the Battle of the Somme, and later worked in the lamp cabin at Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington.

Emily Maud Carter (1893–1970)

Emily Maud Carter was born in Highgate, London, and married George Besford in 1920 at Gateshead Registry Office. They had one child, Henry, in 1921.

Harry Besford (1921–1992)

Henry Besford, always known as Harry, went to school in Bedlington and then studied Physics, becoming a Senior Medical Physicist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.