Recent content by LizzieBee

Learning fast on the research front... and the more I learn the more I discover I don't have a clue about and need to master in order to unpick the next mystery. It's a good job I enjoy finding rabbit holes to vanish down! :laughing:

Thank you mikejee! I really appreciate you checking the sources you have access to. Sadly Ancestry didn't come up trumps for me on this particular occasion, and there was very little to be found by way of newspaper entries for me to go on. I'm fairly certain that the Thomas Rudge I'm trying to...

Hello all, Can anyone help? I think I've found a licensed victualler called Thomas Rudge from Congreve Street, married in 1876 to the youngest daughter Elizabethof a family I'm researching from South Warwickshire. There are a lot of references on these threads to business directories of this...

Found this whilst hunting online. https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1238/mapping_birminghams_historic_landscape_brochure.pdf It seems to be a fairly interesting tool created between Historic England and BCC aimed at collating, categorising and overlaying map data with other...

Hello fabulous map fiends! As I have plunged myself headfirst into my family’s roots I have become more and more fascinated by mapping and what it can tell us about the social history of the streets that it represents. To the best of anyone’s knowledge, are there any sources in existence that...

How interesting. It’s a model that I know is used now: a core team of professionals that can deliver a performance going on tour, using bit part local talent for peripheral roles. Or maybe he was just a stand-in. Who knows! (The model of free or low paid local talent works particularly well...

I found that too. It matches with him being a trainee postal clerk in 1911, still living with his parents. Postal clerk by day, occasional comedy act by night... but not the story of theatres and nightclubs that I was spun.

That looks remarkably likely! Where did you find it? :heart_eyes:

I'm hoping that I can tap into some collective memories of Birmingham between and after the wars. The family story goes that my grandfather, Fred Pearson (b.1908 in Heanage Street to Howard and Lily) had an uncle Will who went on run nightclubs (or possibly working mens clubs) in Birmingham for...

I think the retention of the Inge Street Back to Backs by the National Trust, (however sanitised and prettified they are accused of being) is incredibly valuable. I was explaining to my Canadian step-mum on Sunday how the court system worked, why they were called back to backs, why they were...

Thank you MikeJee! Perhaps I'm a just closet nerd, but I find detailed explanations from people who have acquired knowledge in a specific area to be really, really fascinating, so I can assure you did not "go on" and I was very interested indeed. 'History' is not black and white, it is a...

This really interests me Mikejee, how often do street numberings change around? And what prompts them?? I’m assuming (this being the case) that trying to work out where any given house was at any given time becomes a question of hard earned knowledge and experience rather than there being a...

Thank you so, so, so much!!! I apologise for being a slow in responding, we’ve had a challenging family weekend and I had to Be Mummy, a lot. I did get to share all the work I’d done on his mom’s side of the family around Lyndon End and then Minworth with my Dad though, which was lovely. Back to...

(Unrelated, but it makes me smile that I'm very sweetly labelled a 'Brummie Babby', because despite being born in Good Hope to a very Brummie Daddy I was raised just outside Kingswinford, which would make me a Black Country Babby... an me bloke ay no Brummie at all! He had to learn to slow down...

I recognise that it's a little ridiculous, but I confess I'm quite relieved to see that by the turn of the century they are out of the back to back housing and into terraced. There's nothing to say that the quality of the housing they'd moved into was any better than the Heanage Street facing...