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  1. rowan

    Thornton Road Junior School

    My Husband went to Thornton Road school from 1951-1955 and remembers the Teachers. Class 1/1 Miss Francis. 2/1 Mrs Rouse. 3/1 Mr Field. 4/1 Mr Field (retired) then Mr Force. My husband lived opposite the school in St. Agathas Road
  2. rowan

    Hall, william (1892-1970)

    Hello Toad Your FLORENCE LAVINA HALL (born 5th November 1914 Kings Norton) married ALBERT LESLIE STAINTON 11th February 1933 St. John's Ladywood. FLORENCE died 22nd December 1991. There is a tree on Ancestry regarding Florence and her family
  3. rowan

    Prisoners Of War In Klagenfurt Austria WW2

    Maurice, my Mother worked in Klagenfurt, she was a secretary for a C in C with the Army. She mentioned the D.P (Displaced People) and how sad and awful it was. My brother & I, as children, went over to Austria traveling on the Army train for 3 days. I have very fond memories of Austria such a...
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    Prisoners Of War In Klagenfurt Austria WW2

    I am interested in Klagenfurt Austria in the mid 1940's as my Mother worked there after the war. I was browsing Google for Klagenfurt and came across this interesting site. KLAGENFURT...
  5. rowan

    Server Downtime 21-23 Feb

    Hello everyone so nice to have you all back again...........................I didn't notice Warrens warning............................ naughty me :( Thanks for all your hard work Warren :)
  6. rowan

    Ward End Park

    Many is the time I drank out of the fountain shown in picture 37 and rolled down the bank shown in picture 45. My brother and I would enter from Woodwells Road end. Thank you for posting the fantastic pictures and reviving many lovely memories :)
  7. rowan

    Birmingham Bedstead Factories

    Parry & Bott Ltd Birmingham, spirit levels. (Possibly connected with Joseph Taylor Bott of Falcon Works, Glover St., maker of brass bedsteads c1900). Joseph Taylor Bott was my Great, Great Grandfather.
  8. rowan

    Steelhouse Lane Police Station..the End Of An Era

    Oh Lyn what a clever gal you are :) Many thanks for all your effort and kindness for sharing with us the great photos and the video xx
  9. rowan

    Steelhouse Lane Police Station..the End Of An Era

    thanks lyn for posting the photos and well done to you for recording them. Such a shame to see such a lovely building close. I do hope they don't demolish it as they have so many of Brums great buildings. A good thing to use it for would be a hotel complete with original fittings...
  10. rowan

    Uploading Pictures

    It wont work for me Eric so I am more idiotic than you :))
  11. rowan

    Horne And Keen

    Hi mike I thought that but I can't find a Horne/Keen marriage. it was just a curiosity really as it was tucked away in the book. thank you for replying :))
  12. rowan

    Josiah Mason Mausoleum Graveyard

    I don't seem to be having any success in resizing the pictures it's such a shame :(
  13. rowan

    Horne And Keen

    Tucked away in my old book of Birmingham Ballads was this little treasure but I don't know who they are!!! Lillian Keen and Horace Horne. It looks like a gift card or some such thing.
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  14. rowan

    Josiah Mason Mausoleum Graveyard

    I fear I will lose one half if I split them. I use Coral paint shop pro to crop them
  15. rowan

    Uploading Pictures

    I want to and have tried to upload a few newspaper cutting from 1968 & 1992 that will be of interest to you all but it just keeps telling me that they are too big and I don't know how to make them smaller, any help would be appreciated :))
  16. rowan

    Josiah Mason Mausoleum Graveyard

    Sorting through things to declutter I came across some books I hadn't found for many a year one being "Ballads Of OLD BIRMINGHAM" by E. M. Rudland. Inside were papers from the Birmingham Mail one being from 1968 about Sir Josiah Mason and it mentions the mausoleum and the53 children that were...
  17. rowan

    Email Scams

    We have had the same one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just forward it to [email protected] and they will deal with it.
  18. rowan

    Tan-sad Perambulators

    In doing some family history I found a Great Uncle went to America as a rep for Tan-Sad perambulators in 1924. Can anyone tell me please where this factory was? An interesting point to add is that a pram used by my Mother for us 3 children (from 1937, 1940 & 1951) was a Tan-Sad so maybe Great...
  19. rowan

    sayings

    If I asked for something my Nan would say "Them that asks don't get and them that don't ask don't want!" "A whistling woman and a crowing hen is neither good for God nor men"
  20. rowan

    Small Heath Streets

    Many thanks mike, you are as kind as ever :)) I don't know the area but there seems to have been quite a few of my family (Bott) who lived in Small Heath.
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