Recent content by Annie

Sorry I didn’t catch all the names. It is a message to you all. Annie

Thank you for the welcome Vivienne 14. we are all a little older and I hope wiser. The B H S still has that warm feeling very much like coming home. Annie

Thank you for a walk down memory lane. I remember the names of people who have helped me in the past on the Birmingham site Some are still going strong. Annie

Hi Rod, So enjoyed the podcast thank you will use it again.

How lovely to see the Hall of Memory on line. So many more people can look up friend and family. Thank you so much for letting us all know.

Thank you, as a poem the words are wonderful as well

My Dad liked to shop at Barrows in Birmingham on his way home from work, wonderful cheese. Dad worked for Frederick Marsden in Cannon Street. They then moved to Coventry and Dad travelled every day by bus. Annie

Hi Louisa, I see by your post you are researching the Ellis family. My Maiden name is Ellis I was bought up in Handsworth. The rest of the family seem to come from Kings Norton that way. If I cane help sent me a mp. Annie.

My what memories : I remember Ackey 123 before touching base. Annie

Such a nice day today we went to Handsworth Cemetery. Enclosing a map of the old part of the cemetery. Annie

Hi Jennyann, Sorry I posted it in the wrong place, I was getting carried away. Will try what you have suggested,and thank you Annie.:biggrin:

Hi All, Its me again. Has anyone a map of Handsworth Cemetery please or can you tell me were I can obtain one, that is present day. Really getting back into it again now. Annie.:)

I'm being cheeky now, but nothing ventured nothing gained. My G.Grandfather (Thomas Ellis) was born 1825. in Birmingham Warwick. Emigrited to N/Z don't know when. Married a Marian Cummings, had a son Thomas Ashley Ellis born on a sheep station called Ashley Gorge G.G. was the owner of the...

Thanks to all those that replied; You were right Colin B, it should have read Wake Green Road I had a senior moment; I'll save the information for my journal. They always say ,"There's a bit of truth there somewhere" Thanks again. Annie

I've been reading some of the your older posting on the Sorrento Hospital. My father told me, his father ( my grandfather) had a house built and that it turned out to large, it was sold , and became the Sorrento Hospital. His father (my great grandfather) lived at The Grange, Wake Field...