Recent content by Lady Penelope

Hi Mark, I have been trying unsuccessfully to access some records for the orphanage. Early records are kept at Birmingham Archives but for the period you would be searching you would need to apply to what was the National Children's Homes but is now Action for Children based, I believe, at...

Could the Quadrant later be called Victoria Square Viv? Renamed after the queen died.

Thank you very much Heartland that's really good news. As you know Chester Road station was an afterthought and not opened until a year after the line was started.

Thanks Brummie Geoff - with all the other help this has been a most successful enquiry. Penny

Thanks Mike, much appreciated.

Thank you all for this information. As usual you've come up trumps. I'm confused by the two different farms mentioned Mike but from what I know it was replaced by the library so that ties in with your post. I will check on this. So, which is the photo of please? The family I'm looking at were...

Does anyone have any information on Kingswood House please? It's the wrong side of town for me and the road may be wrong but I was asked to see what I could discover. Definitely in Druid's Heath and it was there until mid 1960's.

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.