Recent content by Lady Penelope

Thank you Janice ajbradley, thank you for that information. I will have to ponder what questions to ask so will get back to you soon.

Hi Lyn, I'm trying to remember what was there before the buildings pictured above. I know I used to meet my friends in Kean & Scott's coffee shop which was on the corner opposite Lewis's I think and would have backed onto Priory Square. Not sure when that shop disappeared. Was it replaced by the...

Pedro, do you know which newspaper this article appeared in please?

Thank you both. Chester Road was an afterthought and not built until a year after the line was completed.

During Heritage week in Sutton this year we will be highlighting the contribution of 'ordinary' people to the running of the railways. There are often pictures of the railway staff but no mention of signalmen. I wondered if anyone could help with information about them please? At Chester Road...

When my daughter was born in 1971, at Good Hope, the Registrar came to the hospital but 8 years later my husband had to go to Birmingham to register our son's birth.

I believe my birth was registered at Birmingham North. Would this be the Aston Office? My parents lived in Erdington. When I googled an enquiry it also gave Newhall Street as a previous location but I'm not sure about this one.

It looks as though the house building started before 1901 as there were only 8 houses at that time. By the 1911 census your relatives appear so they may have moved in when the property was fairly new.

This takes me back to first form and the only thing I can remember from those days. Not sure I'm spelling it right but I think it was Senatus Populus Que Romanus. Not sure about the 'Que'. Meaning Roman Senate and People.

Thanks Pedro, I knew it would be difficult but glad you tried. Penny

Can anyone help with the quality of this photo of Sheffield Road, Boldmere, please? It was sent to the newspaper by my aunt who lived in the road. Any improvement would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Oh how the 'remarkably pure' air of Chester Road has changed! Thank you for all the above. I shall take time to read them properly and see if I can add anything - although I doubt it.

I did know about the Old Cuckoo and the vague area where it was but not the exact location except that it was 'behind the present church'. I think a pub stood on the site of the Bell & Cuckoo long before 1817 which I think was just called the Bell (to be confirmed). In 1750 the landlord wrote a...

Thank you for this information. I don't think, at this stage, that there is any connection to the railway. I checked all the houses on the 1911 census and there are no railway workers living there. I will add it to my February visit to the Archives and look at the plans but I'm pretty sure the...

Thank you all for your input. Architects and auctioneers sound much more likely than a brewer's employee. I'm hoping to find out who actually built these houses and it doesn't look as though they have anything to do with the railway so far. However, I'm not dismissing that yet. Pedro, I'm...