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I went to Birmingham Art School with Rodney Bedall, we remained good friends, living in London. Rodney now lives in Amsterdam after a successful acting career
Arrived today. I am 3/4 of the way through; a great read.
I went to Burbury Street School and lived in Guildford Street. There was a pawn shop on the corner of Guildford Street which had a regular queue on Monday morning.
My sister worked at Lucas, including during the war. Down the road from...
The only photos that I have of Lichfield Street are on this thread. A lot of the information given should be quite useful.
This link might help
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/birmingham-workhouse-peter-walker.47028/#post-713513
You just said that you have hovered your cursor over the icons?????
This is an example of one (it is no good clicking over this one here though as it is only an example)
My mom died in her mid 80s and had Alzheimers. In her last good years I lived in London, she still lived in Birmingham of course. During that time when I came home to visit her I can only describe what I did was interrogate her about her life. I learned a lot about her and my family. Even so...