Recent content by Allotmenttoddler

Loving all these B’ham Uni pics and updates thanks. I went to KEHS in 1969 so used to get the bus to Dawlish Rd ( from Kings Heath) then walk 20 mins to school, cutting through the big Uni gate on the Bristol Rd. I have a commemorative medal from the 1909 opening with the King and Queen on it...

I lo I love these old photos of the Stratford Rd area. My Mum grew up in the 1930s on Oldfield Rd and her Granny, my Great Gran Sarah Lodge, lived on Springfield Avenue.

My primary school in south Brum introduced uniform for Juniors in 1966. I had bottle green knickers with dodgy elastic, and hand me down gym slips from my well off cousin who went to a Prep school in Handsworth! Yes Hworth was very posh, then. I have my school photo in one of the bottle green...

Yep! Finally someone else who remembers Liberty bodices!! My Mum was obsessed with me wearing one underneath pleated skirt and hand knitted woolly jumper! Was it a Bham thing as it was such cold winters?! Mum got her cum uppance on a visit to the large old Edwardian surgery of Dr Donovan at the...

I remember them very well. My Nan always bought Typhoo loose tea. She got a chrome tea strainer free with it once, and I still have it! Nan was wont to take a good tan in summer (whereas the rest of us are all blonde - going grey of course!)… and my then bf now husband used to say cheekily Nan...

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My Grandpa Ernie Parkes worked at the Ariel factory after he came back from the Ww1 Trenches, in the 1920s/30s and I have a bw photo of all the office staff and managers outside, perhaps some anniversary - taken in around 1937. The men are in overalls and look careworn, the ladies all dressed...

My maiden name was Parkes. My Grandpa, Edgar Ernest Parkes (lived in Kings Heath nr Highbury Park) always said Harry Parkes was a cousin. (we talked about it in the 1960s as I knew of the boots shop). I think Grandpa must have meant he was a cousin of HP Dad, Henry Parkes who married Ellen...

My cousins father Alan Bellew worked at Fisher and Ludlow I think in the 1950s as did his father in law ( how he met his wife) Ted Caudle. Ted was the youngest of the Caudle brothers and my own Grandad William was the eldest. Photos are great but I don’t recognise anyone sadly!

I have a b/w photo in my parents box of old pics, of a Zeppelin over Bordesley way - thought it was from 1930s. Spooky, just hanging there in the sky over Bham!

Thanks thats super interesting. It fits. Can you see anywhere who Mary Marshalls parents were?!

I have just seen this. Not sure ifvits the same Beck - I have been trying to go back into my Great Grandma’s line. She was Charlotte Beardshaw, née Wanklin. Her mother was Harriet Wanklin, née Beck. Harriet’s mother was a Mary Beck. Harriet was born approx 1848 so Mary Beck prob born 1827/8 -...

This is sth I have just seen with interest. My mother’s maiden name was Caudle. Grandad’s brother Jack had a haulage firm. Could be same one! It’s an unusual surname... My side of the family lived in Sparkhill, but were from country stock in Yardley originally.

My Dad Gordon Parkes and my Grandpa Ernie Parkes were regulars at the Villa. From age 6 I used to go with them ( lifted over the “boys” turnstile gate!!) Dad often talked about Harry Parkes being a cousin... he did indeed run a shop and had been a player. Never met him. I do have Charlie...