Recent content by Lady Penelope

Hi Lyn, I'm just completing the whole of the High Street, Erdington. It started off as a project but has now turned into a Power Point. This is with great help from this website and especially MikeJee who scanned many directories for me and the posts on the Erdington threads. The pictures...

Hi SABS, Welcome to the Forum. I seem to remember that a bomb dropped in Enstone Road in WW2 and I'm sure there was something on the Goosemoor Lane website - might be worth a look. My friend lived in the furthest end of the road and the house behind, which was next to the Rose & Crown, used to...

Does anyone know when the footbridge disappeared please? It had gone by the late thirties.

Thanks Viv, I meant to include the photo but forgot. Yes, that's the one and I'd appreciate it if you could move it as you suggest.

Hi Morturn, Love these pictures and somewhere you posted one which might be Holland Street. Sorry I couldn't find the right thread. I asked my friend at the History Group and she said the following: "Incidentally, I am certain your photo shows the top end of Holland Street where it meets the...

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?