Recent content by AndyFarren

I have the census, but not this clipping, I do't think. Thank-you for sharing all these clippings, I am uploading them now to my Family tree on Ancestry.com where this particular tree has a wide following around the world. On everyone's behalf, thank you.

That would have been her son Francis, my grandfather. He died 2 months before my dad was born in June. Here's a photo of Francis I was working on cleaning up yesterday, guessing he was in his teens at time of photo, and he was 27 when he died of TB. So in 2025 we can count 100 years from his...

Oh dear, dodgy scales

This is possibly why the name change - the Fehrenbach's were from Germany and 1915 wasn't a good year to be regarded as German in Britain. Also the dodgy scales didn't help either.

May I ask another favour, in my Family History her husband Charles Leo died of a double hernia from lifting a beer barrel in Fanny's off-licence in 1908. Is Fanny listed as a beer retailer anywhere in 1908? It might be as surname Fehrenbach.

My goodness Janice and Lyn, thank you so much for this amazing dectective work, its definitely the same place. I see its just adjacent to Acocks Green, she owned the house there on Westley Road that eventually passed to my father and where I was born at home in 1958. I can't thank you enough...

I think I can rule out the Balsall Heath one as there is a photo of it in this post here https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=6544.44

Thank-you - I did a Google search for M&B pubs in Birmingham and there's a big reference site here. It mentions these too: Stores, Lichfield Road, Aston. Closed 1938. The Stores (off- licence), Cox Street West, Balsall Heath Harborne Stores (ex Stores Inn), 109 High Street, Harborne The Stores...

I wonder if anyone can help me identify the location, or any information about this pub EDIT Off Licence (Not necessarily a pub), I believe to be or have been somewhere in Birmingham. The photo shows the owner/ licencee outside - Fanny Farren - my Great grandmother, taken possibly around...