Recent content by Lady Penelope

Hello Pedro and Janet, I was very impressed with all the information you discovered about The Leasowes and wondered if you could find anything for a house called Bryn Teg please? I know it is/was at 35 Bracebridge Road and I imagine it was another large property. It appears on the 1911 & 1921...

Thank you both. St Michael's is my church and it's possible that an error was made when the burial took place and complete details weren't entered. I'll keep looking! Thanks again,

Thanks Janice, yes, I think that is the case although someone found a burial for me through this site some time ago when I didn't know the church. The problem I have is that some children are buried in the churchyard and aren't on the stones and also a letter in the Archives states that one...

I'm wondering if anyone can help with this query please? I have been locating all the children from the local Orphanages who are buried at St Michael's, Boldmere. There are nearly 40 children buried in three separate graves and just one has still eluded me. Ronald Taylor was buried on 11 May...

That's absolutely smashing, thank you Lyn. I really appreciate all the help I get from the Forum and this is just one example. Thanks again, Penny

I'm looking for help with a newspaper article which appeared in 1975. It featured a baby found in a phone box in Boldmere and nicknamed 'Moses'. Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Just after this line opened we were looking forward to using it. However, we encountered a problem for the return journey before we started. I was booking Passenger Assist to get to Kings Heath and all was fine on the outbound journey - into New Street, change and out again. But, later in the...

I had a reply from the tram company but not very helpful I'm afraid because I couldn't supply the tram number (!!) or the exact time we travelled (!!). I knew that we must have been on the tram just in time to get the 3.36pm train to Chester Road but obviously not accurate enough. I had to...

Erdington Grammar was on the opposite side of Kingsbury Road to Wood End Hall which last time I looked was still there but knowing Birmingham is no longer. Erdington Hall Road was at the back of the school and the hall was demolished to make way for Tyburn Road during the beginning of the last...

It was the churchyard that was extended for a second time not the church itself. The first time it was extended was in 1914 and the second time in 1937. When it was originally built it was a country church and as you can see from the maps it remained so for some time. The expansion of Birmingham...

Johnny082, Gem Street School seems to have had different uses. You can find more about it on : https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/gem-street-school.5250/

Thank you very much Janice, very helpful. I always seem to want something on the crease when I'm looking at road maps too! To mark the centenary of the church a booklet was produced and in it there is a paragraph on the lovely avenue of limes leading from Boldmere Road. It reads: "When the...

I have searched through all my maps but as usual I need the next one to the ones I have. Very frustrating! I have an 1883 map showing part of St Michael's Church in the top left hand side and would like to see the next section please showing the vicarage and glebe land. I searched through many...

Thank you Lloyd, I've written to them so we'll see what they have to say. I don't think the driver went quite far enough if he was supposed to stop appropriately. It was a shame because we had received good, cheerful service from the train managers during our journey. Couldn't fault them.

I'm getting a bit confused here. Surely some of Erdington Grammar School was built on the site of Erdington Hall not Pype Hayes Hall. Erdington Hall was demolished in 1912? to make way for the construction of Tyburn Road. The school was in Kingsbury Road.