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Hi everyone this is a bit of a mystery...I have removed an old photograph from my Great Great Aunts who were Brummies and on the back is an inscription relating to a Major in the RFC, who was killed at what looks like Castle Bromwich, presumably in an aircraft accident, potentially on August...

Thought you might like to see Great Great Aunt Clara whose grave we found, she was a proper Brummie. She was blind, she brought up our Great Aunts Lydia and Grace and their brothers when their mother died. She lived in Balsall Heath and caned chairs and our Great Aunts were tailoresses and...

Hello Lyn they are both in Section 31 and I have the grave numbers. Thank you so much for your help.

You're so kind Lyn, yes a map would be good. Thx.

Thank you Lyn. No it's a private grave, the document I have relates to costs for grave upkeep. GG Aunt Clara died in 1920 and Frederick Hodson, her nephew in 1923.

So now I know where my Great Great Great Aunt Clara is buried together with her nephew, who having managed to survive the Great War died later of pneumonia and emphysema having earlier caught the Spanish Flu epidemic. Does anyone think they would have any headstones, they were terribly poor.

Thank you - it does look like Witton. You Brummies are an impressive resource :)

Hi everyone I have a document from 1920 detailing where a grave is - it looks like Willow Cemetery? Could this be right and if so, where was it and does it survive and where the records be? Any help much appreciated. Thank you.

Wow you lot are amazing. I also found something in BNA about Salford Works in Manchester Evening News from 1872 which given he went onto to be a brass foundry labourer seems quite likely CHANDELIERS and other GASFITTING3, ENGINEERS' BEAM FITTINGS, PLUMBERS' AND GASFITTERS' BRASS WORK, LLOYD A...

My Great Grandfather and Grandmother just kept circumnavigated this area. In1901 I can see them at 58 Cromwell Street and Great Grandfather is a brasswork factory labourer. My Great Grandmother was a seamstress. They moved into this area from Cherrywood Road in Bordesley (1891 census), having...

A copy of my grandfather's birth certificate from 1893 gives his father's address as Salford Works, Richard Street and his occupation as a stationery engine driver. I've struggled to find anything on Salford Works, it makes me wonder if this should read Saltley Works as my mother remembered her...

Yes it's hard to imagine that no so long after this he was at the Battle of the Somme as a Bombardier with the RFA. Best wishes Rachel

Thought you might like to see this photograph of my grandfather, Albert Hodson, a Brummie boy who worked as a page boy at the Queen's Hotel before he moved South for work. He's probably about 16 or 17 here. This is just before the Great War.

So here's the tray back from its' trip to Brum, beautifully restored by the incredibly helpful MA Polishing, can't believe how wonderful it looks. It measures 16" x 13" so it feels too big for an ink stand to me. Makers mark photo also attached.

Don't think so MA Polishing say it's brass and a whole mix of other metals.