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Hi! Tresario I think you'll find that the cottage homes that you are looking for are the Marston Green ones. A good site for information is: www.workhouses.org aso there are some pictures of them on www.mcmullin.plus.com

Just to lower the tone a number plate of my fathers used to amuse me. It was PWC 916 D (cortina estate)

Hi! Phil, Spoke to Mum this morning. With regard to the escaped balloon all that she can remember is that it occurred during the major bombing of the area and that it would be prior to December 7th 1942 which is when Mum enlisted in the army. Apparently I even have a picture of the tree that...

Hi! Phil, Just sent a text to Mum so I'll let you know when she gets back to me about the break away balloon. Mum is 86 now but still very 'with it' her memory of the local area during the war years amazes me.

Hi! Phil, Just been talking to mum about this as I can remember standing in the back garden watching men jump from baskets beloew the balloons.Tthis would have been in the early 1950s and living in Walmley.These ballons would have been at Castle Bromwich. Mum tells me that there was a a...

Old codgers indeed!!!!!! There was a chap of 72 on the news a few days ago causing a nuisance skating round a town centre-Blackpool I think. The police keep moving him on

Hi! I might spend most of the time on my backside but i'll certainly be joining in

Thank you. This is where Mum is confused.Grandpa was well known as a local sportsman both in cricket and football. After finding the photo of the football team and realising that they were called Aston Manor FC I did wonder where Mum had got the name Aston Unity from-you have solved a puzzle

UPDATE We have now found a photograph of this team-possibly a copy of one that appeared in a newspaper. The team was called ASTON MANOR FC winners of the Evelyn Cecil Shield 1911-12.The names on the back of the photo are; Burnett (committee)-Bert Barratt-Jim Morris-Wright (quarry bank sec.)-J...

Mystery solved. Been down to Birmingham today and have a copy of the coroners report. 108 Dartmouth Street was a pub called the Malt Shovel. Poor Edward he had been abstemious for four years due to gout and then goes and dies in a public house after drinking milk and soda (yuk!) To add insult to...

Hi! Lyn, I'm stunned too. Think we have some serious catching up to do. Sorry about brief messages but I'm trying to feed cats,pack a bag and mail you all at the same time

Hi! Lyn, You're right tis me. Is there a way to send a personal message on this forum ? If there is I'll send contact details. I'll be leaving home in about half an hour-meeting a friend in Leeds then going down to Brum to spend the day in the library. Back home tomorrow night

Hi! Linda, This is Mary Please get in touch. I am a friend of Carols'-we found each other again a couple of years ago after a gap of over 20 years.

Thank you but much as I like the theory of him dying delivering beer the Ladywood Edward isn't the same one. Very confusing we have two Edwards born about the same time one in Eckington,Worcestershire and one in Aston. My Edward is the Aston one. I shall be down in Birmingham on Friday and have...

Hi! Folks, Very long shot this but I'm wondering if anybody has stumbled across my Grandfather in old sports literature. He was born Harold John Burton (known as Jack) in Handsworth in 1888 but a lot of his life was spent in Aston. Apparently he was a well known local sportsman...