Recent content by bordesley bob

I've just been to Warstone cemetery, it was a Saturday and there was a gazebo with volunteers who helped me find my long dead ancestors. They were so helpful, I don't know how often they are there but I really am thankful for their help.

Hi Theodore, my distant cousin, Peter Pitt was my first cousin 4 times removed. I am an artist myself and I'd love to see a picture of his work, also anything by William, his brother...

So today I decided to visit Cherry wood Road, formerly Cherry Lane. It seems to have fallen on hard times, half of the street seems to be devoted to car maintenance and stinks of oil. The Tipsy Gent also has gone downhill since my great great grandfather crossed the street to lift a pint there,

Thanks I passed that on

Someone on a local site (Telford) has 30 photos of Birmingham Trams that they don't want to throw away, who can I get them sent to? Apparently they tried two museums who weren't interested.

You could just crop it like this...

Sorry Irena, I have no idea. Best of luck with the research.

Magnificent bed. https://www.phelps-ancestry.co.uk/ancestry/the-peyton-family/ This tells the history of Peyton family and talks about the Bordesley works who made beds in Bordesley Green. If there was a patent was there any names on the Patent? My great grandfather was born in 1861 same year...

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22374/page/1386/data.pdf on the right towards the bottom of the page...

Thanks for your trouble, sorry I had the wrong year. I think you're right and in the 1881 census they were all in Denbigh street.

Thanks, yes that makes sense!

There was Richard Pitt head of the house, his wife Lydia Pitt, Richard's father and mother William and Elizabeth Pitt, brother and sister in law Harry and Nancy Humpage from new Jersey, a cousin Benjamin Pitt from London and Richard's kids, George William, Nelly and Lydia Pitt. Old Bill Pitt was...

These 1890 maps confuse me, my ancestors great great grandad and tribe lived at number two Brighton Place, Blake Lane in 1881 per that census, the sign for Brighton Place, dated 1874 still exists on the house which is number 5 Blake lane, almost opposite number 2 Blake Lane where I believe they...

No help for ancestry but I went to school with a Jenny Snook in Calne, Wiltshire, she was from Seattle in America. It was a long time ago. She was living with a relative there in Wiltshire, an aunt I believe.

The google links don't seem to work very well but it is now 483 Bordesley Green. So that's where that photo was taken. There were only about three houses there on the map, and almost no houses down Blake Lane. Hob Moor Road didnt exist and there ws a second custard house where Hob Moor Rd now...