Recent content by Goodenough

I well remember this type of record player. My first girlfriend had one in the "front room' which we were allowed to go in to be alone together. I remember hearing Elvis Presley singing "Love Me Tender" on an old 78rpm single and marvelling that you could hear his intake of breath between lines...

I went to the Dolls Club with a friend on my 'stag' night in 1968. I seem to remember it quite put me off sex for a while!

Hi Pedrocut. I'm afraid I haven't looked at the B H F recently and failed to see your post. You say you have information about Ernest Sowter who was my uncle [my mother's brother]. I would love to know what you have found. Regards, Peter

Hello I'm getting a bit confused about 77 Dudley Road. I was born there in 1944. Can someone tell me if the place was still a Workhouse Infirmary or whether it had morphed into a full scale maternity hospital by then? Many thanks Goodenough

Hi Interesting about John Hodgkins. Was he by any chance John O Hodgkins. My mother married a John O Hodgkins in about 1931 when she was eighteen. At some stage she seems to have left him and 'taken up' with my father. As far as I can ascertain there were no children of the marriage which is a...

My father, Henry [Harry] Goodman worked for Clear Hooters as a tool maker. I remember him taking me to the factory when I was about five or six, on a Saturday I think it was. There was only one work colleague there and when my father introduced me there was a lot of ribald comments about father...

Interesting that the Shropshire Railway and Canal Co carried extensively on routes to Liverpool and Manchester. My late mother married a man called John O Hodgkins, at the tender age of eighteen, while she was still living at Kingston Row. The interesting part is that he originated from the...

Hi Frank Thank you for your interest and suggestions. I do now actually have mother's birth certificate from the GRO and have managed to track relatives as far as a cousin living in Kidderminster. Unfortunately when I wrote to her I had a call from her husband telling me she had passed away...

Hi Lyn Yes, I found nos 1 - 4 on Google Earth Peter in Devon [night time, no sun now]

Hi Lyn Living in Devon I am unable to visit Kingston Row which I would love to do. I have looked at pictures on Google Earth and on Flickr and the whole area looks fascinating. Peter in sunny Devon

Thanks for that, Mikejee I didn't know no 6 had been demolished nor even where exactly it was so your input is very valuable. Peter in sunny Devon

Hello Looking at my late mother's birth certificate I see that my grandfather, who was Joseph Sowter and who lived at 6 Kingston Row, was a "General Carrier's Horsekeeper". I had always assumed that each bargee had his own horse which obviously he looked after as his livelihood depended on...

Hello I have just found this wonderful forum and, as a Brummie by birth [born in Winson Green Maternity Hospital], I am hoping to find information about my family and fill in some missing gaps. In particular I am looking to see if anyone can help me find anything about my late mother’s...