Recent content by Keith R

I should imagine he was the registrar for the infirmary......My Mother in Law's Cert is 77 Dudley road with the witness as J.S.Copping in 1923...and we have seen the Workhouse Infirmary records which confirm it was the workhouse (hospital).

On some Birth Certs it says 77 Dudley Road as on Wifes Mothers 1923.

Love or hate it you have to marvel at the engineering this has taken........and where all the money has gone............brilliant drone work.

"I wonder if anyone remembers my grandparents William and Mabel Haines, they lived at 20/179 then 181 Tower road"...........

12 years late with this..lol Wifes Grandad lived at 20 and Back 20 Tower Road from 50s onwards until it was demolished.........His name Bayley and before that his 2nd Wifes family lived there ...they were the Rice family.

Blimey collectors items...especially Numbers 0000 and 0001 train tickets...

Blimey funny this thread has come up. I was only looking the other day at the above sketch map and seeing when Rednal house was demolished on maps going back....I was intrigued because of the pond inthe grounds.

1st 2 cars I had were Renaults and as they say enough was enough. 1st a 12 no real problems and rue day I swopped for a more modern looking 11...it was absolute pants......had to change most things on it and had about 4 starter motors......the one real bugbear was the distributer and the cap...

I am afraid "shops" as we knew them are gone forever....Most of the Bull Ring "Mall" and Grand Central are for me Fancy Dan shops...far too expensive and Niche. Housing in town would be brilliant but only affordable ones i.e. council type not 300 grand Studio Apartments. Maybe some of the town...

...."I have found that his parents are also buried there too, to see if I can find and photograph their graves for my folder".......... ....looking at the Birmingham site it lists all the mentioned family names at Yardley but without the grave numbers,

Wish I could have school dinners now....brilliant proper food........cooked in the school kitchens (Mom worked in the kitchens at juniors LOL). When at Secondary school it was a new thing to stay on into the 5th year ...1968....and I pulled out of having the dinners and took bread/crisps BUT as...

Is it a google account ? I just had the same thing and it appears I was logged out of my account. I cant remember what I clicked on to find this but a thing came on screen for me to enter my password and it then opened my emails. Sorry cant be more precise on what to click. Keith

I noted that the Moat lasted a long time but is now Old Moat Drive...

How it looked in 1882.....

Certain the bank was a School Outfitters in maybe the 90's...was run by Mrs Baines....think her husband became a councillor at a later date.