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You can get to know the variety of couriers that bring your on-line shopping.

Lyn, sorry to have missed your Birthday, hope you had a great day!

It was the Erdington Adult School

It seems that Samuel Usher was a founder of an adult school, mentioned in this evening's ITV local news, no details as I wasn't paying attention!

I have sent Ernie's WW1 medals and certificates for signaling to the Staffordshire Regiment Museum for their safe keeping, along with a link to this thread.

Thank you all! Doesn't help when folk change their surnames! Please can you read address on baptism certificate?

Ernie would often refer to himself as Ernie Hodgkiss

Yes, should be 82 not 84, Sorry! Original amended.

Trying to do a mini biography for Ernie Hodgkinson who died 1976 about aged 85 He lived at 82 Anglesey St Lozells. As a young man he had been a member of a cycling club known as Anglesey Wheelers. He served in France in 1914-18 war He talked of motor cycle riding and had a certicate for...

"Enjoying" storm Austen, unusual occurence as our electricity had partly gone off, we had a ceiling light that was lit but dim, the fridge was working as was a plugged in electric clock, but central heating, micro wave etc were all out of action! After some two hours all restored.

Having a massive tidy up of our back patch, got a team of guys hedge trimming etc lots of wonderful power tools, not cheap but I think worth it.

That was pre Pebble Mill. Sept '63 my five mins of fame, on the 6pm evening news.

Indeed sad news. Advised readily with my efforts at ancestry. RIP and condolences to family and friends.

The Clarendon on the corner of Temple Row/Temple St. was a free house as was the George in the Tree in Balsall Common. They belonged to the same company, I think the Twist Group.

I went to work there straight from school in 1958, was a wonderful place to go, a lake for lunch time strolls, or even skating in the winter of '63, romances flourished! Trees to collect conkers, an adjacent riding staple, so much better than going to school! Bit inconvenient for public...