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Happy birthday Janice

The GRO gives her year of birth as 1915 Name:Year of Birth: GRAFF, PHYLLIS MAY 1915 GRO Reference: DOR Q3/1992 in BIRMINGHAM (0611I) Volume 32 Page 806 Entry Number 231 Could this be the birth record that you are seeking?

I'm fairly sure that this workshop was a one man business

Hi! I'm wondering whether anybody can remember a vehicle repair shop in an old building in Inge Street opposite the Fox pub during the 1980's

Great minds ....I messaged a relative who collects old radios and got the same response ie: I can't reply directly, but you could tell them there is an Eddystone user group at https://groups.io/g/EddystoneUserGroup - They are there almost soley for this type of support

Very interesting Jan. I think that you are right about the cottages and barn being sold much earlier

I don't think so as Graham's memoirs tell us that his father installed, electricity, running water and sewerage after purchasing Old Barn

I'll have another look but i don't think so he was only about twelve when he moved into Old Barn, after working for a while he went into the army and became a Tankie. He followed his parents out to NZ in 1947 after marrying my aunt

Yes just domestic and a small holding. Another thing that I am lucky enough to have is a book written by Frank's son Graham entitled ' The Life and Times of Graham Armstrong' Below is a quote from Graham:

Hi! Viv This may help to clear your baffles: Frank was in a senior position with Dunlop at the time that he purchased the Old Barn. In the mid 1940's Dunlop were setting up a tyre manufacturing plant near Christchurch New Zealand. Maybe an offer too good to refuse Frank went out to New Zealand...

I'll dig my files out shortly but I think that may tie in with when the family emigrated to New Zealand

Could this be what Mr Terry purchased and then sold off the cottages

Hi! Janice I think it quite likely that he purchased a neighbouring farm but he only wanted the land and not the buildings

Frederick Walter Terry in 1921

I have wondered whether the two cottages that Frank Armstrong knocked into one were Wiggins Hill Cottages but the entry in the 1939 register suggests not. I think that I will be havng a holiday in the archives next time I'm across in the Uk