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It's one of the things that gets stereotyped about Birmingham. The really bad architecture.

I hope this doesn't come as I have a problem with the Brummie people themselves, but the city itself has such a horrible problem for demolishing historic buildings. My great grandfather helped build it and my nan would always point it out when we'd visit family. Architecturally the new building...

Yeah, I'd heard of it being Anglo Saxon in origin and I assume we had come from somewhere in Staffordshire; I'm not entirely sure where but I don't know how many of the family were in Birmingham; I can find a lot on the Cale family being established due to an ancestor owning a pub (Well...

Hey, does anyone have any information about the Bloor/Bloore family that later became the Blewers? All I really know is it was a Staffordshire surname originally and the family later moved to Brum, and an ancestor was illiterate so the surname changed from Bloor to Blewer. My grandad had...

I know it more as taking the long way around to get somewhere as my Grandad would drive through Staffordshire and the hills up there rather than going a quicker route back to Wales. Lovely views at least but my Nan did always say he loved going round the Wrekin!

How common is the phrase around Brum and outside of it? My mom says it all the time to refer to going somewhere far away. "I ain't going to Brum to pick up your cousins, it's round the Wrekin!" and I'd used it before, but outside of Aberystwyth where there's loads of people from the West...

I don't think he IS the 2nd great grandfather I'm on about due to that time, my parents were born then and my grandparents were only only in their 30s and the Ernie Cale that I'm on about died in 1947, so I think he was a cousin or something as my great grandparents would have been working, but...

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Does anyone have any photos of Ernie Cale? He was my 2nd times Great Grandfather and I'd love to have some photos of relatives if that's okay.

You're actually a cousin of mine! William Cale was my 4th time Great Grandfather, my Great Nan was Elsie Cale and my Nan and Grandad later ran The Fox and Grapes. It's really interesting how the trade picked up later on down the line too.

I'll have to send them an email, my grandparents moved to Wales in the '80s but my grandad worked in the museum for a bit during the '80s. It's really heartbreaking seeing people trying their best to get it preserved only for the powers that be to disagree, the building was from the 1700s, if...

My mom and family were so heartbroken when it was demolished, they'd planned to buy the pub before HS2 and the fire put a stop to it, they've got their own theories about the fire, but it irritates me so much it was demolished for something that didn't come to fruition. I'm still trying to see...

I hope there's no rules about bringing back old topics, but my grandparents ran the pub in the '70s and I was wondering if anyone had any information about the size of the pub, I'm studying architecture and I want to make a scale drawing of it, but I can't find anything about how tall it was, or...