Recent content by Keith R

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.

The type most of our descendants have are the ones with "stick on " letters and I think they are not suitable for cleaning.

These are all the same Butterfly...just different light.....A Gatekeeper.

An obvious observation is that when the NHS came along average life expectancy would have shot up.......so many dying in infancy earlier was a crying shame.

1st picture shows houses along Witton Lane,all gone now.Dont know if Villa bought them all up to extend the stand or not.Used to be the chippy near this end..it might be the building in the picture and terrace houses further along . Used to go to matches on my Honda 90 and park in a blokes back...

Worked in Alcester St during 80's and early on parked car in Green St by a place dealing in tyres (probably a garage) and they didnt like me being there but its a free world so sod 'em...anyway after we had left spotted Dog one lunchtime the garage had put loads of cones all over my...

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1957

Not all bad then....LOL