Birmingham History Forum

Memories of Lucas and its history.

The history of Birmingham and its districts.

If you have a question about this forum or any part of the Birmingham History Network, here's the place to do it!

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Genealogy / History News & Events and general chat DO NOT POST RESEARCH REQUESTS HERE

Do you have advice you can share with others researching their trees? You might have tips to pass on. Maybe you have a question you want to ask, or maybe you've hit a wall in your search. Please don't post surname requests here.

Please post only one surname per enquiry and please make sure it is posted in the relevant forum. Note: You must include the surname in the subject line of your post.

Genealogy enquiries regarding a specific trade or business can be made here.

Genealogy searches relating to a particular church should be posted here.

If you are doing research and need information, post your requests here.

We have a few historic map sections of Birmingham which you might find helpful. Please post requests for help here. If you have map sections you can help other members with I'm sure they would be grateful!!

What was your first car, motorcycle, or even cycle!! What buses did you use frequently, and where did they take you? Post your transport topics on this forum.

Please use this forum to post thoughts of those that have fallen while defending our country.

A collection of photos by John Houghton & Colin Baker

What pub did you frequent, there were many in and around Aston, and Heartlands. There were some colourful characters that drank in them, we would like to hear all about them.

Birmingham has through the years has had its share of many wonderful buildings. Sadly a lot of those for one reason or another have disappeared, be it due to urban renewal, development, or just lack of care. I thought that between us we might record some of these buildings here, there are numerous photos of some examples of Birmingham’s wonderful architecture on this forum but they give very little detail of the buildings history. I thought that we might try to attempt that here; all that I ask is that contributors include with any photo that they may post a little of the history of that building, facts such as the date of building, architects name or company, original use, cost of building, type of material used, in fact anything of interest. I thought I would make a start with the Birmingham Market Hall.

Sporting History and Nostalgia.

Post your memories here. From time to time we will use some memories on the mainsite.

Do you have a story to tell about any of the Birmingham markets?

What are your memories of the great parks and recreation grounds of Birmingham?

Was it in Woolies or the House That Jack Built that you shopped for household goods

Where did you work, was it a small factory in amongst the houses or one of the bigger industrial establishments.

Where did you live? Who were your neighbours? Tell us about your community .

If you're searching for your SCHOOL, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY chums, or have a story of your school, then maybe we can help you with this forum?

This is the place to post your old sayings, and discuss how we talk.

We'd love to hear about your eating habits of years gone by, or maybe you have a mouth watering recipe of yesteryear you can share.

Use the sub forum categories to post your relevant pictures. Because of space limitation I will have to delete older posts weekly or monthly depending on the amount of pictures posted. Please can you try size them so they don't go outside the forum boundaries, if this isn't possible I will do that for you.

This forum is for discussion of music. Recommend a CD or MC to our members.

Can you recommend a good read? Maybe or do you have a favourite book from yesteryear?

General Advice: post your queries here and hopefully some helpful soul will have advice they can give.

Have you got a problem with your PC, Mac or any other system for that matter? Post a message in here and one of our community will help you if they can.