Recent content by Ben Rudder

Hi John, Lyn Thanks very much for your help. Absolutely brilliant. I've got a much better insight thanks to your help. I can now see the whole site, fit it together with the complicated history of the various companies and places, and have a couple more fragments of information to add in. The...

Hi Lyn That's brilliant. Thanks very much. I think you've cracked it. I'm having a bit of a family history binge, and I've found copies of the auction notices for the two properties in the 1960s. They match completely. No 38 Sutherland St, the two sheds behind it, and the area along the...

Hi John Could you provide a link to the original of the aerial image? I'm wondering if there is anything similar I'm pretty sure the yard to the bottom of the picture by the rail junction is CJ and FW Rudders timber merchants -- which had two entrances, one at 79-81 Aston Hall Rd (that can be...

Rudder Timber Merchants — company ledgers I am wondering if anyone might find a use for some company records My family moved away from the Birmingham area when I was 6 years old, but I recently inherited a stack of old ledgers and wage books, the oldest of which date back to at least 1904...