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Hi Betty I have looked on Findmypast and can see the deaths, can't find anything in their newspaper articles. Ancestry has a photo of the burial register stating they were buried on 10th March and the 17th March in Sheldon and the deaths were registered in Meriden (doesn't give the date of...

I started working at Summer Lane for West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) in 1976, and after 2 or 3 jobs was promoted to PSV Licence Clerk in 1979. I held and was responsible for the PSV Licences for all 14 Birmingham bus garages including Sutton Coldfield (which previously...

My aunt passed away a few years ago, aged 100, but at one time in the 1950/1955 Electoral Register she was living at 2312 Coventry Road, so a couple of houses down from there, by the Ivy Leaf British Legion Club. My aunt then moved to live practically next door to the Olton Hall Public House...

My great great great granny Jane Broadbent left Braunston, Northamptonshire shortly after the 1861 census and gave birth to her last son in Birmingham in September 1861. 3 or 4 days after Jane had given birth, her husband Edward Broadbent died in a catastrophic canal boat accident. I am not...

I have family who appeared on the 1871 census in Cotton Street, any photos of what it was like around then please?

Some of my granny Harding's family lived in Kent's Cottages on the census in 1921. Lydia Ann Rixom married George Harding and he died (after they had 16 kids) so her second husband was Joseph Dumbleton (in 1916). The Hardings were from Meriden/Coleshill way, I don't know much about the...

Yes I recognised the badge Ian. I started Saltley Grammar School in 1970, and my friends that left in the summer of 1975 left when it was still Saltley Grammar. I stayed on and left Saltley School in February 1976. You will probably remember Mr. Halls, he is now 91 and looking really good...

Isn't it strange I have just looked at the 1861 Census as well, and my ancestors William & Patrick Day were lodgers next door to your ancestors Mr Zippy. My ancestors lived at 140 Alcester Street, your ancesters at 141 and the Compasses Tavern was at 142 Alcester Street My maiden name being...

When I was at Washwood Heath, Jim Mitchell was the Traffic Manager and Tony Cole was "No. 1", the head Inspector, then he went on to become the Traffic Manager. Sadly he passed away a few years ago. Other inspectors were Les Linnecor, Mark Pollock, (John) Desmond Orr, Brian Morrissey, (Ciaran)...

You must have been at Washwood Heath Garage when I was there (1982-1993). I was the Admin Clerk and my office was behind the Garage Engineer's office on the shop floor, then we moved to the into the new block and our offices were on the middle floor between the Traffic Office on the ground...

My brother works at the "Old Sheldon Cinema" which is now Tescos and has been Safeways / morrisons and many other supermarkets before that, it may even been a Kwik Save at one point. He has worked on that site for about 30 years.

My dad Vic Hunt was a bumper polisher at Wilmot Breedons in Amington Road, he lived in Yardley and cycled to work. He met my mom and she worked there assembling locks and they got married in 1950, and lived in Berkeley Road East, Hay Mills. Dad was still working there until he died aged 52 in...

Re: THE JENNEY'S/ WOOLLEY'S/SHELLEY'S OF ASTON & NECHELLS My aunt (father's older sister) Gladys Marcella Hunt married a Thomas Woolley and they lived in Phillimore Road, off the Washwood Heath Road in Alum Rock. They had two sons, one is also called Thomas Woolley and the other one is called...

I went to Saltley Grammar School, Belchers Lane, Bordesley Green, with a lad called David Goldingay, he would have been born in around 1957 as he was slightly older than me.

Re: Hunts marriage request I was born as Miss Hunt, so was reading your thread. The house I was born in, was in Hay Mills, and if you look over the top of Hay Mills Police Station, (now the Bill and Bull Public House) you have the three pears of Worcestershire, the county then changed to...

I used to work for West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive at Summer Lane as well as Malcolm Keeley that wrote this book! Malcolm can be contacted via the Birmingham Bus Museum at Wythall. https://www.bammot.org.uk/