Recent content by Maria Magenta

I'm putting this here because of his connection with the Rep. The latest journal of the Friends of the Dymock Poets has a very long article by Catherine Hindson about Drinkwater's connection with the Cadbury factory. It's too long to summarise, but I'll quote one sentence: "he had a...

It looks like a nice building, with a lot of space.

So elegant.

I think it was on the image, but it's a long time since I've seen it!

My dad had a photo from Noelle Gordon. The signature looked authentic! :)

I don't really remember the men's clothes. There was a range for women called Yessica (the name sticks in my mind), but I don't know what was special about it!

I didn't hear all the programme, but what I heard was interesting. You got to hear about what it was like to work there for many years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n7tx I wasn't sure whether this would be better in the Shops thread.

It is - thank you! It's my grandfather's family, his parents and siblings.

Thank you, that's very kind. The name is Riley, though has been spelled in various ways, but it's Riley on the census return.

Thanks brummy-lad, it could well be that.

I've just found several relatives I'd never heard of living at Court House, 6 Palmer Street, Aston in 1901, which look like the same place. They had come over here from Ireland the year before, as far as I know.

We have something similar. It's very bossy!

Oh yes, hand signals and running in. Our first car was an Austin A40, followed by a Singer Chamois. Cars used to have better names, like the Humber Super Snipe.

I didn't know her real name. Perhaps she has friends from the midlands?

I've just read her Should We Stay or Should We Go? which has a character, a doctor living in London but originally from Birmingham, who addresses his wife as bab. As Lionel Shriver (I don't know why she has a male name) is an American who lives in Brooklyn and London, I wonder how she got to...